Shopping fun!

Yesterday I bought milk and toilet paper. I know, doesn't sound very exciting but it actually was interesting.

Milk here comes in two versions. You can either get the Nestle boxed kind which is extremely uckey and full of preservatives so it will last after it is opened. Seriously, gross. Or, you can get good old milk in a bag (my Canadian friends know what I'm talking about). You go to the "Mother Dairy" stand and get a bag, or 2 or 3, of milk; you can either get a bigger bag, which is Canadian sized, maybe about a 1/2 litre, or a small bag which has about 2 cups worth. The thing with this milk is that there are no preservatives so people visit the Mother Diary guys every day and buy milk because once it is opened it lasts about 24 hours.
It cost me 15 rupees for two small bags, that is about 35 cents.

Someone told me that part of the reason why cows are considered sacred here is because they give us milk so we should treat them with respect. Not sure how true that is but it is what I've heard.

So, if my milk was 15 cents, guess how much a roll of toilet paper was???

$1.

Seriously, $1. It is imported here.

It costs me $5 to go to the movies,
Two boxes of bottled water (12 1-litre bottles a box) delivered to my house = $6.50
25 passport pictures for $1.50

And one roll of TP is $1.

It is so funny seeing what one country/culture sees as a necessity and what another sees as a luxury.

Happy final day of July!