saitaina | The Value of a Dollar (or WTF am I doing now?)

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

For a while now, I’ve ignored the news reports about the dollar falling because, well, it didn’t really effect me. I still spent and saved about what I used to, I bitched about the slightly increasing costs when ordering overseas, and went back to my life.

But now, for the first time, the dollar has dropped below the value of 100yen and I have to pay attention, because that means my shopping habits have been altered.

You see, while I don’t do a LOT of shopping in Japan, I do quite a bit, enough to feed my anime/manga obsession as well as getting the odd food product I can’t get from an asian grocer.

And it was easy to figure out the exchange, when I guessed the money to be $1 = 100yen (I was often closer to the mark then not). But now with the change, I have to learn a whole new exchange rate which probably won’t stay in my head and make me rant and rave…or just stop buying in the Japanese market place until it evens out again.

…alright, so I just looked up and it hasn’t fallen that much, but it will if this doesn’t stop, leading to the above actions.

…unless I’m reading this wrong and it makes things cheaper for me…great, now I’m more confused. Stupid world markets. This was easier when I was just focusing on the British Pound and new it was doubled the dollar.