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Surviving on €1 in Germany - Day 2 Recycling Bottles for Money
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Mar 27, 2025
I'm surviving on €1 a day in Berlin and today i'll attempt to make money by going green! I'll be recycling used bottles that i find laying around. The German Pfand system refunds up to 25 cents per bottle, so win win! It's a great way to reduce waste, save the planet and make some money! let's see how it goes Living on £1 a day, £1 a day challenge, £1 survival challenge, surviving on €1 a day in Germany, surviving on €1 in Berlin, survival challenge, €1 in Berlin, The Hack, worldwide hacks, world hacks, money saving tips, Simon Wilson, 7 continents in 7 days, money saving hacks, London hacks, hacks, life hacks, tourist, cheap, free, freebies, budget, fun, helpful, Toba courage
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Day two living on one euro a day in Berlin. For breakfast I'm gonna hold on to my euro and try to
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make some money through recycling. Now in Germany there's a bottle recycle system where you can get
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money in return for the bottles. So we just need to walk around, find some bottles, recycle them
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get some money and get breakfast. Best place to go is the hostel I'm staying in. I've seen quite a
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few bottles around the past few days I've been there so I'm just gonna ask them if I can recycle
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the bottles for them. I couldn't have your bottles could I? This is what I'm going to be surviving on today
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All right I've collected quite a few bottles. I don't know how much it translates to but
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it should do for breakfast. I can walk around see if I can find some more but I don't want to be
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I don't want to be a nuisance in this hostel. Can I recycle that bottle? Hello
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Take it. Thank you. There's more one? Yes, please. Thank you. Now we just need to walk around the city and find somewhere to actually recycle this
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turn it into cash, and then get breakfast. Eureka, we found it
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So now I just need to go through all of these and see how much we've got. What
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So far we have 2.80€ I mean it was a lot of bottles and all you get is 2.80��
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But it's decent, it's more than 1.00€ or 1.00€ so happy days
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Now we're gonna go cash this in and then get breakfast. Let's go. Hello
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Thank you. Okay, now seeing we have a bit of money to play with
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I'm thinking cereal and something. So I found soya milk for 99 cents
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I've got 1 euro 80 to find either the actual cereal and maybe like a pastry of some sort
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Then I can have breakfast, happy days. Alright so the cheapest cereal I could find here was 1 for cornflakes Now I want to look in another shop to see if i can find anything cheaper if not then complex it is hello
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thank you i've just left the shopping center walked around for a bit had a look around
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and the cornflakes is probably my best bet hello are these free samples
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Is it cheese? Cheese? I can't have cheese. Is it vegan? That one's vegan? It looks very interesting
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So I managed to find some free sample. She put something interesting on it
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It's delicious. That can taste pretty good
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The choice I make right now will determine the next few days. I can either go for oats, which last a few days, with milk, or this massive box of cereal
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I think this is the best there, isn't it? Thank you. Thank you
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Thanks. Is there anything I can get for 40 cents? Can you get for 40 cents
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You want apples? You can give me an apple. I would like something I can have with cereal
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Oh yeah? Yeah. One more. Yeah. Okay. Okay, we're back at the hostel and this is what our money could get us
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I'm just going to get a bowl, have breakfast and then head out and keep exploring
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Hi, I couldn't grab a bowl, could I? A what? A bowl? Yes
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A bowl and spoon? Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you so much
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Thank you. Mmm. This is delicious. I like my cornflakes swimming in the milk
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All right. Lunch. I've still got my one euro, so I want to walk around and see what I can find
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Preferably something light. I don't think you'd get anything heavy for one euro anyways
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That breakfast has honestly filled me up. And I've got fruits. I was wondering if you have anything for one euro
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No, no, no food. No food for one euro No English German Oh no Alright so I had a look in the shop The only thing they have for close to one euro is a Turkish pizza for one euro fifty
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Breaking news. Turkish pizza has meat in it, so it turns out I can't have it anyways
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Um, you don't happen to have anything for one euro, do you? What? What
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Do you have anything for one euro? I don't understand. Do you have anything for one euro
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A croissant Okay, thank you I guess we're having croissant for lunch
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Alright, so I'm going down into the subway I've just remembered those people yesterday
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from the Duwali festival told me to come back today and they've got free food, so happy days
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I'm going to head over there and grab some lunch and also learn about the Hindu religion
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We have croissant. I don't know if this is necessarily classes as lunch, but this is all we got, man
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Hello. How's it going? You again. So nice to see you. Nice to see you guys too
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How are you? Alright, we're back. Going to find a seat and then carry on with the festivities
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So I just left the Krishna temple
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And I think now I understand why my mom doesn't like me wandering
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to these different types of religions and doctrines. Because it's a whole completely different belief system
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Anyways, I left before the meals were being served. So, yeah. Alright, it's getting late
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I found something interesting on Meetup. It goes offline dating in the mall
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And I thought, why not? It goes, we meet up every Wednesday to practice our real world social and dating skills
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This meetup is not just about meeting the other attendants, but also going out together and meeting completely new people
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talking to strangers in the real world. It's something 99% of society would never consider
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It sounds like a fun, I don't know. events so let go check it out I so sorry guys Hey what up how you doing I good thanks Join in I not sure if I in the right place this is the media proofs yeah nice to meet you guys right here I pretty excited
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to start and so now we'll just act as if we were people who are just around here
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and we don't know these guys and we don't know each other okay we're just
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standing there like all these other people, and those guys here, they are people who are now approaching us
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Okay, so currently we're on an exercise where we've split the group into two
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and then half of the group are going to go and speak to the other half, and then they have to get rejected
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So someone comes up to me, and I just straight up reject them, and then it helps them deal with rejection
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Excuse me, I was wondering if you guys... Sorry, I don't have time. I'm sorry
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Okay, so now roles are switched and I need to go up to people and try and get their attention and I get parched
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I've done sales for five years so this is like, rejection is futile
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Oh, excuse me, mate. I was just wondering where you got your jacket from
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Our instructor is showing us how it goes and he's speaking to some ladies
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Okay, so we've got like a mini group and then we need to walk around and speak to some women, right
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How do you guys feel about it? No, of course. All right, so it's come to an end. We finished all the group exercises
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We've learnt a little bit about rejection. We've gone up and talked to some random strangers
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We've learned about openings and like closings and like all the random bits
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Random things you can do in random countries you visit. Alrighty, so I'm back at the hostel
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I guess it's fruits for dinner today. Not ideal, but hey, what can you do
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Alright, it's been an interesting day today. I didn't manage to have three full course meals
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but this is what you get when you're living on one pound a day. Like this video, give it a big thumbs up
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and I'll see you in the next one. Peace
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