Last week I faced a very unique situation while staying in my apartment. During the last three days of the week I realized I was strapped out of cash. As in a very very serious lack of cash on my end.

Late Wednesday I realize that I only have 40php in my wallet and this is bad considering that I have to pay for my transportation everyday going to office and for my food. To make matters worse, I dont have any food stock in my apartment and I’m running out of water to drink as well. With that in mind, I tried scouring every possible store thats still opened late (11pm and late).. The twist there is that they have to accept credit card as form of payment. Unfortunately most stores here in my country DON’T. Imagine, KFC, McDonalds, Jollibee don’t accept credit cards. Mercury Drug, 7-eleven, Ministop, etc. don’t either.

So what I did after I came home was to scour each and every piece of coin that I have to make sure that I have enough left for the next 3 days (until I reach my original home). Luckily the 40php piled up to 140 some but it still wouldn’t be enough since I have to pay for my food for the next 3 days.

So what I did was woke up early the next day and went to the Supermarket so I can buy all my needed stuff and the best thing is they ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS. so there ya go. I saved my money so I can use it for transportation and bought everything I possibly could using my credit card so I don’t have to worry anymore about buying something and further more decreasing that 140 some budget allotted for transportation and other miscellaneous things. And as I was typing, you can say that I survived.

That’s it. Lesson learned? Be thrifty and wise. I am wise myself but there are always going to be times where you’ll be tested with different situations.  The key is not losing your composure.