| Type | Item | Price (US$) | Where | Note |
| Children | Gameboy or DS Many-In-One Games | $10 and Up | Greenhills | NOT legal in the developed world - 100+ games for $50. Or buy memory card for cheaper and load the games yourself. |
| Clothing | Khaki Pants | $10 and Up | SM and Robinson Dept Stores | Avoid intl brands, try local brands, nice fabric and last long; get is fitted for P50 (US$1). |
| Clothing | Nike DryFIT Shirts and Shorts | $5 - $10 | Greenhills | I think these are legal, GREAT deals compared to the usual $30-$50 in the dept stores. |
| Clothing | Sandals | $1 - $2 | Surplus Shop and Other | Very cool looking and CHEAP; sandals is a way of life here. |
| Dining | All-Seafood Meal | $10-$15 per person | Seaside | Pick your own seafood and have them cooked in a restaurant. Crabs, prawns, clams, oysters, fish all at rock bottom prices! |
| Education | 1-on-1 Sports Lesson | $5-$10 per hour | Any sports club | Not the cheap coaches - some at national level! Best sports here are swimming, badminton and boxing, but can do tennis and ice skating too. |
| Education | Books | Various, up to 50% off, but could go lower in book exhibits or fairs | National Bookstore, Bridges Bookstore, book fairs in the malls | Looks for prices that beat Amazon? Books in the Philippines sometimes go for very deep discounts, even when they are sold in big bookstore chains! |
| Education | English Tutor | $3-$10 | Referenced Individual | English-majors or teachers willing to do 1-on-1 for the cheap - MUST go through reference for security reason. |
| Education | Music Lessons | $10 - $20 per hour | Yamaha School of Music and other | Piano, Guitar, Drums and Voice are the most popular. Teacher quality varies, so it's important to get reference. |
| Education | Stationary | Examples: Pilot mechanical pencils for US$, plastic file folder for $0.8, school bag for $5 | Good place to shop is National Bookstore, but also try dept stores and smaller shops | Just about all stationaries - from imported luxuries to junky Asian products - are a lot cheaper than the U.S. |
| Electronics | Fix your iPhone, PSP or NDS | $4-5 + Parts | Greenhills or Park Square | It might take them one hour to change that broken screen, but it's STILL $5. Downright unbeatable. You need to watch whether the replacement part is new or used though. |
| Entertainment | DVDs | $1 to $2 | Seaside dampa and all around town - but hard to find in Greenhills and nicer parts of Ortigas and Makati | THIS IS ILLEGAL, but cheap.  For $2 you get a Chinese high quality DVD with full features and a nice package, for $1 you get some local crap but most of time they work. |
| Entertainment | Movies | $2 to $10 | From cheap Makati Cinema to luxurious Powerplan Cinema, there are lots of them around. | For $2 you won't get much luxury, but for $4 you'll get into the very decent seats in SM or other cinemas. $10 is for IMAX - 3D movie. |
| Entertainment | Music or Theater | $2 to $20 or up | Check TicketWorld for latest shows | Hardware and performance quality may not be first tier international standard, but for the prices they charge you should not miss it - especially the kiddy shows! |
| Food | Ice Cream | $0.2 and Up | Most SM and Robinson Malls | Mr. Soft, found in most large malls, has a P9 soft ice cream on a cone, and other small vendors have occasional specials under P10 too. In Metro - Market Market in Fort Bonifacio, there is a Nestle stand that sells P10 one scoop ice cream. Occasionally found in SM Makati too. |
| Food | Pandesal (dinner roll) | 5 to 10 cents | Many bakeries, Greenhills has a good one | Super cheap dinner rolls that are very good! Some bakeries serve them hot; there's a good one in Greenhills between V-Mall and Tiengge. |
| Food | Pineapple | $1 | S&R | You can get a pineapple for as low as $0.5 but it won't be as good as these $1 ones from S&R! |
| Food | Salmon Steaks | $4 per lb | Seaside or any farmers market | Can be found everywhere, but seafood market has the BEST and most affordable ones. Get it from inside marketn not stall facing the restaurants. |
| Food | Shrimps / Prawns | $5 per lb for large prawns | Seaside or any supermarket | Large prawn that cost $15+/lb in the US are the cheapest cholesterol booster here. |
| Health | Prescription Drugs | Example - $1 for Ramipril vs. $2-3 in the U.S. | All Drugstores including Mercury | Either branded or generic, you'll find VERY good deals in the Philippines for prescription drugs. |
| Health | Doctor Visit | $6 - $12, depending on type of doctor | Any hospital, the latest and most renowned among foreigners are Medical City and St. Lukes in Fort. | Ok, I'm not suggesting you should visit the hospital on a foreign trip, but if you must you'll find the cost sometime too low to claim insurance. Even a visit to a specialist will set you back for only around $10, very often a US-trained physician too!! |
| Misc | Studio Portraits | $3 per sitting + large sheet | Most Malls | Not the Picture People (the local premium studio) quality, but most malls have cheap studio portrait that shoots 10+ pictures and let you choose and print, 1/3 price compared to US |
