Codes of Living - 5

We are looking for a magic formula to live, for now we have rented a two-room living room that will put our heads in, protect us from the rain and snow. We also found the difficult part of the expenses that could feed us monthly. I hope we can start calculating one or two of our nutritional expenses and calculating our other needs.

So far, our monthly rental expense is 2200 liras, our dues expenses are 100 liras and the expense for home cooked foods is 4500 liras, and for now our account is 6500 liras per month.

Let's move on. We said that our father should not go hungry in the afternoons, and that he should drink a bowl of soup, a pita with minced meat and a buttermilk in a nearby kebab shop or pita.

Kebab 49 at Tunalı Hilmi in Ankara is in my memories with the memories of my youth. Let's look at the prices there first.

Soup: Soup of the day, with nail pita, lemon, 21 liras

Pita with minced meat, seasonal salad, 52 liras

Buttermilk: Eker ayran (30 cl.), 9 liras.

One meal is 82 pounds, 2132 pounds in 26 days.

The whole family is fed at home for 4500 liras a month, and one afternoon our father will spend almost half as much money to feed himself, as well as the price of a bowl of soup. It seemed a bit too much for me.

Either Kebab 49 has become a very luxurious place, or the purchasing power in our youth is more normal than today.

I'll check in from somewhere else, maybe I'll find a slightly more economical place. While looking at house prices, we had reached the average of Turkey in Ankara Küçükesat, let's look at it from somewhere, it would be better, and it would comply with our middle pole principle.

I found a more economical place in Küçükesat, Esat Cumhuriyet Döner.

Soup, for some reason is not on the menu, there are definitely services, the average price in other places is 20 dollars, let's add this price to the account.

With minced meat pita, roasted peppers, salad and cold cuts, 43 liras

Buttermilk, 330 ml, 10 lira

One meal is 73 pounds, 1898 pounds in 26 days. We leave the coins on the table, anyway, three or four liras at a time, it will cost us 2000 liras.

In my opinion, it is high again, but such are the conditions of life these days, there is nothing to do. I don't think we are in a position to carry food from home with a sefer bowl in this century. That's how I add it to our account.

However, let's not see it less than eating a kebab as a family for a meal on weekends. That's why we all go to Kebab 49 together on Sundays at the weekend.

We came to our family lunch on Sundays at the weekend. I think this fee will be more or less the same as the cost of a picnic if we decide to have a picnic instead of a restaurant somewhere. That's why I make our calculations four times a month as a family going to the restaurant.

I don't know about you, but when I create such an opportunity, I drink soup in front and eat a portion of iskender kebab . Our lady also likes soup and kebab. Our kids used to love doner and potatoes when they were little, so I'll take doner with fries for the kid. We always eat a fizzy drink and a dessert on top. We'll buy custard for the baby, and maybe he'll eat a bite or two of his mother's plate, but he probably likes custard more.

Let's see how much money will cost for lunch in the restaurant according to this account.

Soup, with two servings, nail pita and lemon, from 21 pounds two bowls 42 pounds

Iskender, nail pita, sauce, butter, yogurt, bulgur rice, roasted peppers, roasted tomatoes, seasonal salad and pickles, 75 liras

With lamb skewers, roasted peppers, roasted tomatoes, bulgur rice, onions with sumac, seasonal salad and pickles, 96 pounds

Doner, with french fries, roasted peppers, roasted tomatoes, nail pita, seasonal salad and pickles, 62 pounds

Turnip juice, Doğanay, 330 ml, 13 liras, two, a fizzy drink for a child, the same price, 39 liras.

I like the creamy bread kadayıf very much, two, one for the father, one for the mother, one for 25 liras, two for 50 liras.

Bakery rice pudding, 22 pounds, one for the child, one for the baby, two for 44 pounds.

Tea goes well on top of food, no need to pay a fee, from the establishment.

Let's take the account, please, the waiter brought it, we slowly lift the lid and look at the admission. Yes, as I guessed, it cost quite a lot, 408 pounds. We take 400 liras out of the wallet and put it in, we find a defect in our pocket, we put another 25 liras by lifting the lid.  The tip was minimal, but from the middle post it's barely that much. We pay 425 liras and get up.

1700 liras four times a month, may Allah bless you.

When we added 2,000 liras to the 6,800 liras so far, the father's lunch and 1,700 liras the restaurant expenses, we reached 10,500 liras as a monthly expense.

Only the baby's milk food is left from the feeding expenses, and the child's pocket money for school.

Let's first decide on the child's pocket money. For this purpose, if a child were to buy something from the canteen at school, how much money would he need, let's try to decide by looking at the prices.

Çiko lata prices, bar chocolate 75-80 grams, 9 lira 95 kuruş, surprise egg, 4 lira 90 kuruş, Neapolitan hazelnut cream, 32 grams, 2 lira 75 kuruş, Ülker salted caramel and almond milk chocolate, 60 grams, 7 lira 95 kuruş, milk chocolate, 60 grams, 5 lira 95 kuruş, there are also cheaper ones, coconut, apricot, filled,  frothy, umbrella, from 1 lira 65 kuruş, 4 lira 50 kuruş.

Biscuits are also at different prices, the cheapest is 4 lira 65 kuruş, 9 lira 90 kuruş, 13 lira 50 kuruş.

Let's also look at the prices of bagels, cheese pastries, the bagel is 3 liras, the moon bun is 3 lira 25 kuruş, the sausage toast is 5 lira 25 kuruş, the plain opening is 1 lira 50 kuruş, the cheddar is 2 lira 25 kuruş. For sure soon these prices will also come to increase.

Drinks, 200-250 ml, lemonade, fruit juices, from 2 liras to 4 liras 95 cents

Ice creams, from 2 liras to 11 liras, again various.

I don't know what to do now? If we give 10 liras as an allowance, it would be less, and 20 liras suddenly felt like eating a lot of junk food. Whatever the best thing to give, her mother should give it, we have 22 days of school days a month, let's leave 350 liras to her mother, she will take care of it. Such things should be left to the ladies. Let the child know his mother as an authority, mothers spend more time with children, they suffer a lot. Let there be such positive discrimination rights.

Our account is getting sweller day by day, adding 350 more and it was 10,850 pounds. It will be even more fluffy. I'm not sure if we'll ever get a job at these rates.

Feeding the baby is the only one left ofthe feeding expenses,  but it is not so easy, it requires expertise, it has been a lot of time for me, our girls have grown up a lot, and our memories are starting to betray us at this age.

So let me ask you for a few days to examine the issue a little more, let's see what are the details of feeding babies from 8-12 months to 3 years old. Rather than writing something wrong, it is useful to do enough research first, then we calculate this expense together with other baby expenses.

No sitting in the empty house, tomorrow we continue the account with household items and furniture.

Love and respect from Moscow