We're spending roughly half of the year in South Africa. For our home here, we have a prepaid water & electricity system. We buy vouchers at just about any grocery store and get a pin code to type into our meters.

Pick'n'Pay (3rd largest supermarket chain here) started accepting sats a bit over a year ago. So we buy a lot of stuff there and pay via lightning directly. They also have liquor stores, some household items and even clothing stores under the same brand, in all of which you can pay via lightning too. Granted, their products often aren't the best in terms of quality, but for basics it does the job just fine.

And finally, for some other things like phone data, Bitrefill has many vouchers on offer for SA.

Same as above: bought at Pick'n'Pay. Would love to unearth a p2p fresh milk vendor, but haven't found one yet. Still need to work more on our local network here.

Absolutely! I've been tracking it mentally for a while now, and the deflation is real. But I thought I might as well track it properly with a few staples that I know we'll continue to buy for years to come.

It's different to kinda know you're living a deflationary lifestyle when compared to being able to pull up a sheet with items and their associated costs in sats over time from which I can visualize it in more powerful ways. It also feels more real to track actual purchases than just retro-fitting conversions from old fiat prices even if that leads to the same results.