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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 3352728" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/worthless-currency-becomes-art-sorts-struggling-venezuela-022910266.html" target="_blank">Worthless currency becomes art, of sorts, in struggling Venezuela</a></p><p></p><p>Venezuela's currency has lost so much value that people simply throw away their small bills -- they are virtually worthless anyway.</p><p></p><p>Enter Wilmer Rojas, 25, who scoops them up off the street, uses an origami-like folding technique, a needle and thread to make handbags with an eye to selling them -- maybe even abroad, where people have real money.</p><p></p><p>Rojas can use as many as 800 bills to make such a purse. And if you add up the face value of all that money, it's enough to buy... half a kilo (one pound) of rice. Rojas and his wife have three kids to feed, and another is on the way.</p><p></p><p>"People throw them away because they are no good to buy anything. No one even accepts them anymore," Rojas told AFP outside a subway station, where he also sells coffee and cigarettes in addition to his unusual bag-weaving work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 3352728, member: 12952"] [URL="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/worthless-currency-becomes-art-sorts-struggling-venezuela-022910266.html"]Worthless currency becomes art, of sorts, in struggling Venezuela[/URL] Venezuela's currency has lost so much value that people simply throw away their small bills -- they are virtually worthless anyway. Enter Wilmer Rojas, 25, who scoops them up off the street, uses an origami-like folding technique, a needle and thread to make handbags with an eye to selling them -- maybe even abroad, where people have real money. Rojas can use as many as 800 bills to make such a purse. And if you add up the face value of all that money, it's enough to buy... half a kilo (one pound) of rice. Rojas and his wife have three kids to feed, and another is on the way. "People throw them away because they are no good to buy anything. No one even accepts them anymore," Rojas told AFP outside a subway station, where he also sells coffee and cigarettes in addition to his unusual bag-weaving work. [/QUOTE]
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