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8. How many hours/week does each family member work?
Dentes: 60 hours/week
Mme Dentes: 55 hours/week
Kids: 30 hours/week
9. Are you satisfied with your jobs? What do you
like/dislike about them?
Yes. Work is our favorite thing. Making money, buying
clothes. We dislike nothing.
10. How much money does each family member earn/month?
Our family together earns $300 (US)/year.
11. What are your total expenses each month for:
Our expenses vary each month. The average is $20
(US)/month. Some months we spend no money on clothes or
luxury items. We do not keep a written budget. We buy what
we need when we have the money. Our family grows our own
things and we barter for things not grown.
12. What is your family's energy consumption and cost?
Electricity: No electricity.
Water: No running water.
13. How much waste do you generate; and how does your family
dispose of its waste ?
We use food waste and feces for fertilizer, and burn plastics,
etc.
14. Does your family buy, produce, or sell foreign goods?
No. Only an occasional Coke.
Family Possessions
15. What is each family member's most valued possession?
Why?
Mme Dentes: a new nice dress.
Dentes: We have no possessions of value.
Children: We have no possessions of value.
16. What other possessions would you like to acquire?
Mme Dentes: A new dress.
Jean Donne: A bicycle.
Lucianne: Sewing machine.