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- If you have other currencies/money from other countries, you can exchange
them into LEI at a foreign currency exchange office. Money from other
countries is called: currency.
- You can't buy anything in Romania with one (1) leu.
- With 2 (two) lei you can buy a pretzel.
- The average net salary in Romania is 3500 lei. Let’s convert it into dollars!
Come on! If $1.00 equals 4 lei and 40 monies, let us see what is my salary in
dollars, assuming I have an average salary?
- Let us assume that I have 10 lei. I can buy chocolate and a pretzel from the
store. But I can also buy some eggs.
- I can pay for goods and services with a bank card - see photo
-The main element of a bank card is the PIN. The PIN is a number
consisting of 4 (four) digits. Do not tell anyone your Bank Card PIN
-With the bank card, you can withdraw money from the bank or ATM, you can
also deposit money at the bank or ATM, you can make payments at a Mall, at
another store, or online, in electronic commerce circuit.
-Parents receive the salary either on a bank card or in cash, i.e., material
money.
Important wise saying / Proverbs:

You can never buy LOVE, HONOR, DIGNITY, FRIENDSHIP with money!
OR
LOVE, HONOR, DIGNITY, FRIENDSHIP cannot be bought with money!
Popular Romanian proverbs and sayings about money:

a. Collect white money for dark days!

b. Money has no smell!

c. Money is the devil's eye!