Budgets of Egyptian mothers in Ramadan .. Assurances and trips and rituals

Karim Adel - Cairo

Egyptian women are the main target of the preparations for the shops, breakfast tents, Suhour and high-end cafes, and is always faced with unprecedented offers and Ramadan menus allocated to them, amid ceremonies and ceremonial rituals attractive.

The whole scene places the individual in a state of confusion, let alone Egyptian women, who have opened up their passion for shopping while taking the household spending budget in many Egyptian homes. The woman finds herself caught between yams, nuts, and sweets.

As well as Ramadan Ramadan, which is rich in the Egyptian trip, and the picnic of friends and family, and the lights of Zain Ramadan, to engage in financial adventure for a month Karim known generosity Egypt.

Weak monthly spending
Hala Hussein, a mother of three, explains that her budget in Ramadan is twice or twice a month, most of which is spent on eating, yamish, juices and drinks that eat only two-thirds of food expenses.

Despite the doubling of spending, Hala told Al Jazeera Net that it has reduced its consumption and has been checking the quality of the food with no repetition of certain high-cost foods, with the economy in the "Ramadan commitments," which she said "much less than last year."

Ramadan Banquet is devouring the budget
"Sohour Barre (abroad) is very expensive," she said, so she does not get too much out of the house, although this is one of the main features of Ramadan in Egypt in recent years.

And at the same time to preserve the spirit of Ramadan economize in the Yamish, which bought the first month to hold with it until the end.

Eid al-Fitr expenses
As a mother of three children do not forget halo in its budget expenses of Eid al-Fitr clothes, cakes and biscuits, which start buying often before half the month of Ramadan so as not to be exposed to the high prices and crowds near the Eid.

Ramadan is an opportunity to "swallow"
"I am a single woman by virtue of my circumstances and my work, but the month is not very different for me," she said.

"But I love to see myself in this holy month," she said. "I'm interested in buying meat, even though I never buy it."

And agreed with Hala in that she did not buy a lot of Ramadan nuts, and I went in Yamish, but she could not cancel all aspects of the month, but few of it.

"Vegetables, beans, olive oil and grains of Suhoor" are the most important concerns of their immortality in Ramadan this year in their budget table.

Attractive vegetable and fruit shops
Basma Dawood, a housewife and mother of a child, maintains a reasonable amount of personal expenses for the gatherings of friends in Ramadan and entertains her child in strolling with his peers, saying: "Ramadan is his sweetness in luminescence and promissories." But she sees that she is not much affected by the economic situation because of her lifestyle Tends to return to nature.

"My lifestyle makes me able to save even in Ramadan." So Basma summed up the most important characteristic of her spending in this holy month.

As for Wafa Ali, the highlight of her spending in the month of Ramadan as a new bride this year is to decorate her new home and give the spirit of Ramadan to the branches of colored light on the balconies and windows and the tents and Ramadan figures decorated around her house, which cost a total of approximately one thousand Egyptian pounds Approximately $ 58).

Awareness and awareness
"The most important development of an event for Egyptian women is consciousness, awareness and awareness," according to the experience of Manal Khadr, a family counselor, who mixes with many women's gatherings, adding that this is reflected in the preparation for Ramadan in terms of purchases of Ramadan from home catering and Yamish, The holy month of Ramadan to celebrate his arrival, so that the mind, good management and management of the financial resources of the family are placed in the right place.

The quality of the foods is not quantity
In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, Manal said that the Egyptian mother became more concerned with the quality of the food offered to the children than the quantities provided. The focus of women on the family's mental health was greater than the interest in providing many different types of food at the family table.

"Egyptian women have never become a consuming or ill-disposed woman for purchases and markets," Manal said. "Egyptian women are at all levels of material, keen to cook food at home and keep away from ready-made food for lack of confidence in the way they are cooked and not affected by their budget."

Overall, Manal believes that the ideas of Egyptian women have changed a lot from the idea of ​​buying the most expensive to the idea of ​​buying the best and the best.