When travelling, the last thing you want to do is the mental math of converting the price tag to your home currency. How much do you divide this by? How much do you multiply? Do I add a little on top or subtract a little?
Many years ago, there we discovered a nifty little tool called the Oanda Currency Cheat Sheet (also called fxCheatSheet) that was a low-tech printout of currency exchange numbers. While yes, you could totally pull out Google or a foreign exchange app, this remarkable simple currency conversion cheat sheet is something that I always keep in the wallet
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The Original Oanda Currency Converter
The very first version of the pocket-sized currency conversion cheat sheet came from a Canadian foreign exchange company called Oanda and is the inspiration for the latest version we have today.
For those that know about them, have used them, and wonder where they’ve gone, here’s a bit of background information and a little nostalgia as well.
How we first discovered them
When we did our epic summer backpacking trip through Asia, I randomly stumbled upon their currency converter. Similar to Xe.com, they offered live-updated exchange rates for currencies around the world.
It worked well and what really set Oanda apart from Xe was the fact that they had the ability to put in an interbank rate and also something called a “Traveler’s Cheatsheet”.
A handy printable currency converter
Over the years, Oanda has evolved their cheatsheet. It started off being called the Oanda fxCheatSheet, then became Traveler’s Cheatsheet, and finally it was integrated into the currency converter tool.
In the past few years, you could tell that there wasn’t as much of an emphasis on the Oanda cheat sheet.
What happened to the tool?
What started off as a brilliant printable currency converter simply disappeared in the wind. As priorities changed with Oanda and their need to update the user interface forced the platform to evolve, they simply removed it completely at the end of 2021.
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