When going shopping in a country with a currency different from your own, it can be really difficult to keep it straight in your head how much you're spending. It's really easy to lose track if you're just getting used to a new currency. You can use an app on your phone or iPod to punch in the numbers, but that can get really annoying. Instead, I make a simple cheat sheet. It's easy, 'cause you can just pull out a lil' slip of notebook paper that has conversions for you, so you can make rough approximations.
Let's take the American dollar and the euro for example. As of today (August 9, 2012), 1 euro = about $1.23. So I would convert it for multiple dollar amounts like so:
1 euro $1.23
3 euros $3.68
5 euros $6.14
10 euros $12.28
15 euros $18.42
20 euros $24.56
You can get away with just converting with whatever converter, but if you want to play it really safe, you can find out what exchange rate you got when you exchanged your money, and that will naturally be the most accurate.
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