The Zim will be worth .19 per...right Tony???

by **BritishBulldog** Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:12 pm

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#4. Zimbabwe Dollars Were Repurposed For Ridiculous Things

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The Zimbabwean

Even before being dropped as currency, the Zimbabwe dollar had virtually no value. A bundle of trillion-dollar notes could only buy a quarter-loaf of bread. And then there was toilet paper:

"The WC [bathroom] at the gas station across the border could not afford toilet paper, and buying it would require bundles of dollars for even one roll. When I had to use one there was a metal bin full of Zimbabwe dollars for only a few billion each. We had to literally wipe ourselves with billions of dollars."

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"Quit wasting time making it different colors; they're all going to be brown in the end."

The plumbing couldn't handle all the money people were literally flushing down the toilet. They put signs up to stop people from clogging up their pipes with trillions of dollars. You remember how to spell "trillions" from earlier, right? It's with a T.

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Eugine Baron

It's the only place that would ever turn down the business of a septillionaire.

Advertisements on normal paper became way too expensive, so bills were stuck together to make a large canvas, and the message was then printed on that collage. Most of the time it was advertisements, but it could also be used to make a statement:

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The Zimbabwean

They would've drawn dicks on all of them, but the Sharpie was too valuable.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1640-5-nightmare-realities-when-your-money-suddenly-worthless.html