More than 40 college students challenge 5 yuan a day and only 8 people succeed one day.
reporter Ren Jiao
"Xuan song group" student (right one right two) partnership wholesale small paper towel, near conf road sale, the effect is still good newspaper reporter Chen Tuan
there is a team selling raincoat, a team selling paper towel to make money to make money for someone to eat breakfast "bankrupt" someone to work to retire
5 yuan can buy 5 bun, two bottles of water, or a breakfast, can you use 5 yuan to live one day? The "5 yuan urban survival challenge" held by the 32 class of English major, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, attracted more than 40 students from outside and outside the school.
with only 5 yuan and mobile phone, or even a bus card, they get out of the school and start a day's survival challenge...
it raining all day yesterday, and it has made many difficulties in the "5 Yuan City survival challenge" of Jiaotong University. As of 5 p.m. yesterday, only 8 of the more than 40 students participated in the competition, with 5 yuan living a day and income, and many of the more than 30 other students were "halfway bankrupt", or did not give up 5 yuan to give up the competition.
Why do some people easily go bankrupt and others have surplus? What kind of money do they use to make money? This reporter conducted a "follow-up report" to them.
1 "1" "chicken soup" group "
when the confidence full of less than four hours" bankruptcy "
8 o'clock in the morning yesterday, at the South Gate of Xi'an Jiao Tong University, and several students in the field decided to join the competition," we each 5 yuan, that five people have 25 yuan. "
the first group of members decided to wholesale some mineral water to sell the scenic spots, but immediately some people counted the pen account: from Jiaotong to the big goose pagoda, 5 people needed 5 yuan for the bus fare, and 5 yuan to return, and the remaining 15 yuan, only enough to buy 10 bottles of water, "not cost-effective!"
at this time the sky drizzle, let them brainstorm: do you want to go to Kang Fu Road to sell wholesale disposable raincoats? In order to save 5 yuan bus money, five students from the chicken soup group decided to walk from Jiaotong University to Kang Fu Road. Finally, they bought 15 disposable raincoats at the price of one yuan in the light industry market and drove to the South Square of the big wild goose pagoda.
but from 10, the drizzle has become patter, and there are few pedestrians in the north and South Square of the wild goose pagoda in the weekdays, and the tourists in twos and threes are also carrying umbrellas. "We are not willing to use raincoats, we also want to make money to eat by it, but it has not been sold at 12 o'clock at noon," Li Xuqiang said. Go out. "
then, less than 4 hours after the bankruptcy of the "chicken soup group" with the only five yuan left to return to Jiaotong, "lost" group leader Hong Zhenhan said: "you have no money to eat, just go back to the dorm, see if you can sell these 15 raincoats in the afternoon."
but until the end of the event, their raincoats were not sold.
2 "
sell paper towel to earn 37 yuan and eat 53 yuan to eat
in the group QQ group of Xi'an Jiaotong University. Tao, Zhang Zehui, Tang Jiaying and Tang Ling jointly form "Xuan song group". Hou Mengyuan proposed: "let's sell paper towels. A towel can only sell a small bag for 5 cents if it costs a few dollars. It's not expensive, but it can also be sold." The proposal was agreed by the members of the group. At 10:30 yesterday morning, they walked to the Kang Fu Road on foot and bought 5 paper towels at the supermarket's supermarket for 2 yuan per item. There were 10 packets in each section. "Each package cost 2 hair, we sell 5 hair, and we can earn 3 hair."
"just came out of the mall, and we sold the first package. From Kang Fu Road to Xijing Hospital, it has gone four or five kilometers along the road, and it has been selling to passers-by all the way, though it is very tired and cold, but it is much more successful than imagined. Hou Mengyuan said that the team members worked hard on the passers-by, and politely said, "Hello, do you need paper towels? Just 5 cents, a small bag is also very convenient to carry, buy a bag. "
"on average, 10 passers-by can sell a pack and sell a bag, so all members will be happy to say thank you repeatedly." Tang Ling said, there are also many generous passers-by, an elder sister bought 6 bags.
so, the "Xuan song group" first invested 10 yuan to buy 5 paper towels quickly sold 25 yuan, Tang Jiaying hurried with this 25 yuan to buy 13 paper towels (merchant discount 1 yuan), after the sale of 40 packets of paper towels, the cold and hungry group unanimously decided to sell the remaining 9 paper towels to 3 yuan at a low price, and finally five The man earned 37 yuan and a total of 62 yuan.
"originally intended to let the team solve lunch at the supermarket trial place, but we haven't found a big supermarket yet. We are already cold and hungry." Hou Mengyuan said. At 3 p.m., the Xuan song group spent 53 yuan on cooking in a small restaurant on Kang Fu Road, and settled it with four 5 yuan, thirty 1 yuan and six 5 jiao.
3 "3" "Shang Chen" group "/>
two people in a breakfast" all "
" each bowl of soya bean milk, two oil sticks, it spent 10 yuan, "Fang Runze and Tang Wenbo's" Shang Chen group "in the school just fifteen minutes, they spent all of their own family.
the already penniless "Chan" group, decided to go to the campus or the fast food shop to do the hours, but ask the nearby stores are not short, the fast food store also said that after the early bid for health certificate, they resentful. When Fang Runze returned to his dorm lunch break, Tang Wenbo found a copy of a cup for an hour, 8 yuan an hour in a regular cafe on the campus, but Tang Wenbo was embarrassed to accept the salary of the shopkeeper and changed the reward to a cup of lemon tea.
4 "O2" group "
20 yuan in a small hotel for only 5 yuan
Applied Chemistry of Xu Xiang for his group named" O2 "(oxygen), he participated alone, at 2 p.m. yesterday, 5 yuan survival challenge funds still left 3 yuan. "In the morning, I had a lot of breakfast before entering the competition, so I wanted to save lunch." After starting from Jiaotong University, Xu Xiang, who took 2 yuan to go to the bookstore of the bell tower bookstore, was more comfortable than the other students. Reading books in the bookstore could not only kill time, but also have a place to go around in the rainy days. But after reading two books in the bookstore, Xu Xiang decided to go to Shaanxi history museum to continue to kill time, but calculate it. Account, "to go to Shaanxi history museum to take a bus to 2 yuan, and then back to the big also need 2 yuan, but then only 3 yuan, still one yuan."
then, Xu Xiang, originally intended to be in the bookstore for a day, decided to earn 1 yuan for a small restaurant in the alley next to the bookstore, and see a rare guest store. He entered to ask the boss to let him do two hours in the store, only to give him a free meal for 1 yuan, and the boss should be happy. "At that time, I had 3 yuan left, and another 1 yuan would be enough for me to go to the Shaanxi Museum of history."
a thin Xu Xiang, after an hour of washing, the boss saw nothing to do and gave him 20 yuan "money", but he asked the boss to give only 5 yuan. Xu Xiang said, "I think the boss gave me food and gave me 20 yuan too much. After all, I only worked for an hour."
4 p.m., only one hour left at the end of the activity. He returned to school directly after the living Xu Xiang. He bought a purple rice cake for 4 yuan on the road, and successfully completed the challenge of survival, with a surplus of 2 yuan.
.Gt;.Gt; students summed up
"the hardest thing is not too little money,
but the environment and human changes"
"although the process is very hard, but we see a lot of people and a lot of things, may be unimaginable at school, and difficult to understand." Speaking of yesterday's experience, Hou Mengyuan said, "the biggest uncertainty is human beings. Because there is no way to predict what kind of passersby you are going to meet, he will be kind or indifferent, and don't know if he will pick up your thing this second, or whether he will buy it for the next second. The most difficult part of this activity is not too little 5 yuan, but to deal with changes in the environment and people.
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"sad to feel that you are not trusted. No matter how polite we recommend, most people rush away. " Tang Jiaying said, it seems that most people are worried about whether they want to cheat them, but they are actually selling a packet of cheap paper towels.
most of the students went bankrupt quickly. How to make a living of 5 yuan a day and earn money? Hou Mengyuan and Tang Ling summed up, first of all, must have a "do not make soy sauce" determination, since the participation must be taken seriously, can not meet a little difficulty to give up. Then, whether it's team combat or individual participation, we must consider everything, such as how to arrange fare and meals, and what money can be saved. What money does it take to spend? We should also analyze the market and make a suitable sales plan according to our actual situation, and be generous and tactful. Don't be afraid of being rejected.
as the planner of the project, the 32 class leader of the English major of Xi'an Jiao Tong University, Tang Ling and Xuan Songtao, said that although 5 yuan is really rare, there are still a lot of people in the world with less than 5 yuan a day. They want to make college students know the difficulty of life and the difficulty of making money through this activity. "Although many students have not insisted on the end, the purpose of our activities has been reached."