Sunday, September 18, 2005

Exchange-Value

German Fact of the Day #12

Some things are really expensive here. I paid almost $5.00 for a half gallon of orange juice. But then for some reason some things seem really cheap. Like laundry. It's .50 cents to wash one load of laundry in my building. To dry a load for 45 minutes costs me .25 cents. And at the on campus store, a half gallon of spring water is only$1.05.