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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
My ability to process Euros is impaired
I know the dollar suuucks right now, but I can't help reading prices in Euros and thinking, oh, 70 Euros isn't bad for that, even though it is actually closer to $100 (plus some). Perhaps this is a necessary survival strategy so I don't spend the next year getting a stomach ache every time I walk into a store, but I have decided to cut short my foray on Amazon.fr for the time being. I will wait until I arrive (Monday morning, AHHHH!) to order the items I am not packing for the move.
Re: My ability to process Euros is impaired
Ah, yes, the memories. I would love when a product was priced in the euro version (10 euros vs 10 dollars) and I knew I was paying extra.
Are you being pain in Euros or in dollars? It's an easier one for one mental exchange if you are being paid in euros.
I never had a problem "not converting" in my head, but it also helped that if we were paying 18 euros for dinner, it was the same meal that we would have paid 18 dollars for. The only thing I couldn't help but mentally convert was for shoes. I wasn't going to pay 50 euros for a pair of Reef flip flops.
The semi-annual sales start soon, I think the 7th, stock up on stuff then! I've found kids clothes for 80% off previous years.
I agree, it's hard not to convert.
The thing that is fun to convert is my salary. Gosh did that make me feel better about life.
Don't convert! It is really a pain in the neck if you think in dollars.
I heard it was the 11th, but I am definitely waiting to do my shopping until the sales start! woohoo!
What helps too is that in most of Europe (honestly don't remember it from the last time in France) the taxes are always already added to the ticket price. If I haven't been to the US in a while, I always have to get used to paying more than it says. That helps you in 'learning' not to convert, in the US it might be 10 dollars plus tax (and you're in NYC right? High taxes), in Europe it'll be 10 euros total.
The 8.something percent tax might not make up for the entire exchange rate, but it takes off a little (and makes it all that much more confusing).
My food blog
What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DYeah, the dollar sucks compared the pound too....I try not to think about it. I get paid in dollars, though I get "extra" to compensate for the exchange rate, but it's still painful to think about how much things cost, so I try not to:-) Generally I can afford to live to the same standard as when I was in the states, so it's not a huge deal.
But yikes...spending the equivalent of $9/gallon per gas sucks no matter what it costs in pounds/litre!!
This was the case when I was working in Spain in 2002. Those were the good old days!
Thanks for commiserating, everyone. DH and I will be paid in dollars, but such is life. We've adjusted to the cost of living in NYC and I'm sure we'll adjust in Paris.