Comments on: German Cash Receipts in 2009

By: Maria S.

Maria S. — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:12:21 +0000

The only time I still convert euro back to Deutschmark in my mind is when I see overpriced food on a restaurant menu or other small every day items.

Usually, if I get to the point of converting, this means I find the item overpriced.

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:50:01 +0000

You got there first! I had a post about pesetas lined up: http://tinyurl.com/yb6wmb7

By: John

John — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:16:09 +0000

In Spain it is still very common to display prices for everything in ESP (pesetas), and in fact when we were talking to an architect recently about the house we will be building there, he had to keep referring to his calculator to convert prices from ESP to EUR to tell us what he expected the costs to be!

We’ve been told that although people think in EUR for every day purchases at the supermarket, big-ticket items like cars and houses are still usually mentally priced in pesetas!