Day 4 - Iced Coffee and a lemon

I continue to survive off of Mr. Noodles (I feel like I'm doing some disturbing promotion for them at this point) and some bread. MMM what exciting meals... My challenge for the day was that I was sick and had to deal with it. After work I walked on down to Keewatin Place and walked to the medicinal isle and instantly became annoyed. Every single form of medication cost more than my remaining money. I only had $8.50 so decided to go traditional style on that cold. I decided tea and a lemon would have to make due. Are you aware of the price of tea? It's leaves, and you aren't going to spend less than $3.50 on it. Luckily, the lemon was only 49 cents. I figured the best way to handle the cold would be too make tea, throw some lemon in it and deal with it. Definitely not the best remedy but it's what I could afford. To make things worse, I have a whole in my pocket and all of my change that was smaller than a loony apparently disappeared during the walk home. I now have four dollars...

On the bright side, I came up with a genius idea last night. I sat there and brewed coffee for roughly half an hour (I only have an espresso maker to make coffee so it took some time). I then dumped it all into a pitcher and tossed some sugar in there and threw it in the fridge over night. This morning I had a lovely glass of iced coffee. This was a good idea as I was starting to get real sick of boiling hot coffee. Despite the fact that I turned my heat almost off, my apartment is still boiling because it's on the second floor.

If this challenge has made me realize anything about my personal life, it's that I spend way too much money on impulse buys (I'm looking at you, pizza delivery guys). I really didn't have to change my lifestyle too much, and the only suffering I'm really getting is the fact that I can't just buy what I feel like. I also think this challenge only gives a very mild idea as to what it would be like to actually live on $38 a week because no matter how difficult it is, you know it's over at the end of the week. Also, because it is simply a challenge, the challenge cards are just a minor inconvenience. For example, the challenge where I had to pick up carts wasn't that difficult because if anyone asked I could simply say I was in the poverty challenge. For someone who actually needed the money from those carts, it would be a very different experience.

I don't know why I'm reflecting so early in the challenge, possibly the diet of noodles and coffee...

BONUS:
Awesome Iced coffee recipe!

1. Brew a pot of coffee, but make it twice as strong as you normally would.

2. Before it cools, add sugar (for iced coffee I like to add too much.

3. Once it cools a bit, pour it into a pitcher and let it cool overnight.

4. Fill half of a glass with ice cubes and pour cold coffee in. This would be the time when you add cream as well.

5. You're good to go!