What Can You Get For $5?
Here's an interesting experiment. This website is trying to use Flickr to explore the relative value of $5 around the world. They're asking you to take pictures of things that cost 5 bucks and submit them to their Flickr pool, (or email them).
"The thing can be an object: a book; a bag of grain; phone credit or a service: vaccination; hair cut; dentist check-up; charity donation; taxi ride; massage - the more variety the better."
They already have some interesting examples, a lamp made from recycled parts, delivery service in South Korea, two cans of soup, etc.
What can you buy for five dollars?
[via Kottke]
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You can get 500 pennies...
You can get 2 TV dinners. God bless America.
5 dollar foot l-o-n-g.....damn you subway commercials!
you can get a gallon of gas and some change.
A milkshake from Jack Rabbit Slim's
little ceasar's hot n' ready. SO good. As a recent college graduate, I can thank LC's for helping me survive school.
You can get a savings account started at our local credit union - Apple Federal.
A four-course meal from the dollar menu at McDonald's plus tax : ) Heaven knows I still frequent this restaurant when money gets tight.
It can be your down payment on a million dollar house in the Virgin Islands via Countrywide.
A cheap used PS2 or Gamecube game at Gamestop.
If I go downtown, I can get a halfway decent blo*(%&(#*&. Sorry honey.
That's a pretty f%&$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.
Lottery tickets, that you can turn into millions of dollars. Offcourse the probability of that is another matter altogether.
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?
Hussen's pizza special: 2 slices and a medium drink $5 and that includes tax
@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.
You can get a Quizno's sub with MORE MEAT.