Are you this old?

[k0ua]

Dad bought dynamite at the local hardware store to blast rock for his basement.

Mine bought dynamite all the time, mostly for stump removal.

 

[turnkey4099]

Man, you guys are old.

Naw....I'm 86 and not looking forward to getting old.

 

[turnkey4099]

Many have already mentioned these to admit they're older than dirt.


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Many of them were AFTER I came along. I hate to think what that makes me.

 

[turnkey4099]

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And Mommy and Daddy would make sure never to enter the showroom there!

 

[turnkey4099]

Mine bought dynamite all the time, mostly for stump removal.

Dad did to. He was a firm believer "if a little is enough, more is better". He left some big holes.

 

[turnkey4099]

I still carry $150 for emergencies, and at least $10 for small purchases. Gas and everything else for my truck goes on one card, other things go on another.

About 10 uears ago, I would draw $300 'walkaround money' out of the bank. It would do me 2, sometimes, 3 months. Inflation has gone so far that now I draw $400 and sometimes it doesn't even make a month. Alot of it goes to my favorite grocery store that does not take credit cards. Debit yes but not credit.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Naw....I'm 86 and not looking forward to getting old.

Don't let the old man in...

 

[PILOON]

You couldn’t get that in a Barber Shop even today. What hair I have left is curly and I’ve rarely had a “good” haircut.

Well whenever you do get the cut you want keep going back to the same barber.

That was and still is my way.

A year or so ago I was back to the area from which I had moved some 10 years ago so being due for a cut I dropped in to my old barber.
Well , what a reception, and what conversation catching up on everything, was like a family reunion.

 

[Oaktree]

Yeah, the plastic is convenient. I like filling up with gas and not having to go in to pay...but I also hate to use the card for small purchases, so I manage to spend a fair amount of cash along. Change goes into the change bucket, which serves as a reservoir for the car wash and a treasure trove if the kids are running short.

I still carry $150 for emergencies, and at least $10 for small purchases. Gas and everything else for my truck goes on one card, other things go on another.

I use CCs a lot more than I used to, both are cashback cards, so it's like getting 1-5% off my purchases. Gas, almost all the time, other purchases over $25 or so also CC. That's about the extent, I don't see myself going cashless anytime soon, not gonna use a CC for some $8 purchase.

Change gets tossed into a jar, when it gets full-ish I'll go to one of those Coinstar machines and cash them in for an Amazon certificate. If you get cash, they take a 9.5% cut, but on a gift card you get 100% of what you cashed in.

 

[JethroB]

I remember the attempts to eradicate or control fire ants here in the 70’s. Crop dusters or planes would fly over dropping Mirex bait over the county. You would get pelted if standing outside. It was ground up corncobs soaked with the chemical. The county extension office gave out free small bags of it. Mirex was later outlawed as really bad stuff, like chlordane.

 

[Molalla1]

Naw....I'm 86 and not looking forward to getting old.

. . . (79 here) . . . what's a fellow going to do?

 

[LD48750]

. . . (79 here) . . . what's a fellow going to do?

Keep it up, you guys make me feel young again...

 

[Dftodd]

How many of you remember hearing a sonic boom?

They were outlawed in '73 so hearing them might not qualify you as being old but remembering them, or not, may qualify you.

I've heard a couple. Usually it triggered a massive influx of complaints to the air force base.

Last one I heard was late 80's in the summer. Thought a propane tank blew up at a cabin down the hill from our place.

Heard on the news that night it was a sonic boom.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I use CCs a lot more than I used to, both are cashback cards, so it's like getting 1-5% off my purchases. Gas, almost all the time, other purchases over $25 or so also CC. That's about the extent, I don't see myself going cashless anytime soon, not gonna use a CC for some $8 purchase.

Change gets tossed into a jar, when it gets full-ish I'll go to one of those Coinstar machines and cash them in for an Amazon certificate. If you get cash, they take a 9.5% cut, but on a gift card you get 100% of what you cashed in.

My credit union lets me run coins through their coin sorter for free, as long as I deposit the money in my account.

 

[Jstpssng]

My credit union lets me run coins through their coin sorter for free, as long as I deposit the money in my account.

It has to be rolled to take it to my CU... yet they then dump it out and run it through their machine anyways. The last time I left home to cash my change in it had been about a year, so I had quite a bit. I stopped at the local general store first and asked them if they needed any change.
"How much do you have?"
"398 dollars."
"I'll take it all."

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Shoot... even 2Lane isn't this old

 

[Pixguy]

It has to be rolled to take it to my CU... yet they then dump it out and run it through their machine anyways. The last time I left home to cash my change in it had been about a year, so I had quite a bit. I stopped at the local general store first and asked them if they needed any change.
"How much do you have?"
"398 dollars."
"I'll take it all."

Bangor Savings let's you use their machine free if you have an account.
Last year rolled coin was short and we had trouble getting it at the banks.

 

[Pixguy]

 

[Pixguy]

 

[Oaktree]

My credit union lets me run coins through their coin sorter for free, as long as I deposit the money in my account.

None of the banks I've used in, oh I don't know maybe 25 years even had coin sorting machines, at least not in any of the branches. Or at least that's what they told me. If they did, it wasn't where customers could see it. Only way they'd accept coins is if they were rolled.

Pretty amazing how fast the coins add up though...last time I used the Coinstar I had something like $85 in pennies alone. I considered it "found money".