Here’s an interesting experiment. This website is trying to use Flickr to explore the relative value of $5 around the world. They’re asking you to take pictures of things that cost 5 bucks and submit them to their Flickr pool, (or email them).
“The thing can be an object: a book; a bag of grain; phone credit or a service: vaccination; hair cut; dentist check-up; charity donation; taxi ride; massage – the more variety the better.”
They already have some interesting examples, a lamp made from recycled parts, delivery service in South Korea, two cans of soup, etc.
What can you buy for five dollars?
[via Kottke]
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You can get a Quizno’s sub with MORE MEAT.
You can get 500 pennies…
You can get 2 TV dinners. God bless America.
5 dollar foot l-o-n-g…..damn you subway commercials!
you can get a gallon of gas and some change.
A milkshake from Jack Rabbit Slim’s
little ceasar’s hot n’ ready. SO good. As a recent college graduate, I can thank LC’s for helping me survive school.
You can get a savings account started at our local credit union – Apple
Federal.
A four-course meal from the dollar menu at McDonald’s plus tax : ) Heaven knows I still frequent this restaurant when money gets tight.
@graphicwave: Really? I’ve never gotten out of Quizno’s paying less than $10.
It can be your down payment on a million dollar house in the Virgin Islands via Countrywide.
A cheap used PS2 or Gamecube game at Gamestop.
@mdoublej: Now that I think about that….it’s true. The commercials are a LIE!
If I go downtown, I can get a halfway decent blo*(%&(#*&. Sorry honey.
@RabbitDinner:
damn, you beat me to it.
@RabbitDinner:
That’s a pretty f%&$ing good milkshake. I don’t know if it’s worth five dollars but it’s pretty f#$%ing good.
A $5 MetroCard
A grande coffee at starbucks.
A Large Popcorn at the movies.
Maxim magazine.
1 half gallon of Lactaid milk
and you’d need 5 + %sales tax for those 5 dollar foot longs
You can get a haircut for $5 at most beauty schools in my area.
A pound of bacon.
@Skankingmike: What if i paid the tax with pennies from the penny jar does that let it count?
Lottery tickets, that you can turn into millions of dollars. Offcourse the probability of that is another matter altogether.
@RabbitDinner: A f**king good milk shake at that. I don’t know if it’s worth $5 though.
@TheSeeker: Five dollars? You don’t put bourbon in it or anything?
2 Quinoz’ Sammies and a cup of water, with change.
A box lunch and a soda, 2-4 books from Strand or Bookoff, 2 loaves of Wonder Bread, a magazine, 2 comic books, 400 sheets of paper, 1/2 gallon of milk and 1 box of Ritz crackers or 2dz eggs.
Or save it!
A foot-long
My undivided attention for 124 seconds!
These days, a single loaf of whole wheat sandwich bread.
the site no workee
Five Dollar Foot Loooonnnnnnggg!
10 tacos from Jack in the Box!
Every single Google product and a $5 savings account.
~5/6ths of a pint of beer.
Why the hell is it £3 for a bloody pint now?
@Anjow: Yuengling is $1.50-$2 during happy hour in Philly.
Hussen’s pizza special: 2 slices and a medium drink $5 and that includes tax
@TheSeeker: She’s a skinny mofo, but I would try any milkshake that Uma Thurman has touched
@mdoublej: Thank you! I hate Quiznos, I call it “home of the $9 sandwich.”
@graphicwave:
There’s not more meat on a Quiznos sub, in fact just yesterday the Quiznos I work at got hit with the shrink ray because I was told to put less meat from now on.
3 dominos pizza baby! 555
5 Totino’s pizzas at my local Krogers.
10/$10 except they don’t enforce it beyond 1$/each. I so take advantage of that and buy like 1 or 2 at a time. They’re on a sale that’s been constantly on since May.
@Skiffer: The current percentage is 80% post-82 and 20% pre-82. That equals up to $6.44.