The Economic Diary Game 2nd April 2026 | The story of a busy day of market activity

thumbnail photo of the day

The first thing I did when I woke up that morning was brush my teeth. Then I washed my hands and face and freshened up. After refreshing myself nicely, I visited Steemit for a while. I spent about an hour visiting Steemit and upvoting several valuable posts. At the same time, I reviewed some valuable posts. Today is my shopping day. I was given the responsibility of doing a weekly market for the hostel. Anyway, I had to eat before going to the market. I had breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Then I went to the market to shop.

Rice quality and category

After arriving at the market, I first went to buy rice. There are multiple rice shops in the market, but I want to buy rice from a rice exporter. I definitely had to review the rice before purchasing it. Because when I buy rice, I have to see which rice yields the best rice. Finding such a trick is quite a feat. In particular, I noticed the quality of more than ten types of rice here. Since this is the market for my hostel, I definitely had to find good rice at an affordable price. Anyway, I decided to buy two bags of rice. I purchased the rice at a price of 1290 Bangladeshi taka per sack. Then I went to the fish market.

Understanding the skill of cutting fish

The fish market had sufficient fish imports. I was looking for Brigitte fish at the time. Brigate fish were available at a somewhat limited price. The amount of fish on the market list was 12 kg of Brigate and 3 kg of Pangasius. Anyway, I was quite interested in buying fish from here. After purchasing the fish, it has to be taken to a separate location for cutting. Anyway, I bought a lot of Briget fish and Pangasius fish. The fish price list has been published below.

Brigitte fish	12x170=2040 bdt	291 steem
Pangasius fish	180x3=540 bdt	77 steem
Fish cutting fee	150 bdt	21 steem

Capturing the moment of entering the grocery market

After buying the fish, I started walking towards the grocery store. We still had a lot of things to buy from the grocery store. We purchased some products at the grocery store after reviewing them. Anyway, we bought lentils, ginger, garlic, onions, etc. from the grocery store. The grocery store had all the products we needed. Every product seemed to have a normal price to us, although recently the market price has been rising. We first made a list of all the products we purchased. I bought about ten types of groceries according to the list. I took some photos after entering the grocery store and during the purchase.

Grocery store interior photography

We had some idea of the prices of the groceries we purchased. So we purchased all the products at very reasonable prices. The price list of the groceries I purchased is published below.

Grocery product name	Product price in bdt	Product price steem
Lentils	2kg 220 bdt	31 steem
Soybean oil	2kg 400 bdt	57 steem
Mustard oil	1kg 210 bdt	30 steem
Ginger	150 bdt	21 steem
Garlic	100 bdt	14 steem
Onion	8kg 350 bdt	50 steem
Cumin	150 bdt	21 steem
Hot spices	50 bdt	7 steem
Salt	2kg 80 bdt	11 steem

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After finishing the market, I paid the price. The entire cost at the grocery market was 2855 taka in Bangladeshi taka. Anyway, after I paid the price, it was my turn to take them home. After purchasing all the necessary things, I had to get into a rickshaw with them. An annoying situation arose, which was that I was unable to find a way to determine the rickshaw fare. To put it mildly, there was a rickshaw crisis that day. Anyway, I finally got a rickshaw. The rickshaw fare from the market to the gate of our house was 60 Bangladeshi taka, which is the equivalent of about 9 steem.

The moment of returning home after the market

Anyway, I picked up the purchased goods in a rickshaw and left the market for home. I captured the image from the back seat after driving home. Finally, I reached home and unloaded the market goods from the rickshaw. Then I freshened up and finished the day's market activities. This is how the day passed in a busy market.

Thank you very much for reading my post. May everyone be well and healthy always by the grace of God. I end here by wishing everyone long life. See you again, InshaAllah.