When self-restraint comes in handy

The conversion rate from dollars to yen (円) is about 98 to 1 at the moment, which means basically you cut off the last two zeros from any amount and you've converted to dollars. So when I buy 1048 yen worth of groceries, I’m spending (a tiny bit more than) $10.48. It’s very strange walking into the store and seeing huge numbers on this comparatively tiny amount of food. But instead of making me shy away from buying lunch when it costs 570 because that seems so expensive, my mind seems to have decided that wow, these numbers are so huge, the currency must be really small, so all of this is extremely cheap. Go crazy, you can’t be spending very much!