You know you are getting old when:

[2jakes]

Wal-Mart is not on my favored vendor list.

I’ve noticed that “ink cartridges” for my printer from there are cheaper,
but tend to dry faster than same item at best buy stores at higher prices.
Some of Sam’s Warehouse outlets have closed. I've seen the items on the
shelves at Wal-mart.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Steel pennies were still in circulation in my early years. So we're Liberty dimes and Indian head nickels.

I still have a Whitman coin folder with a few Mercury dimes in it, but it has been quite a while since I found a new one to add to it. Once in a great while I'll find a Buffalo nickel with the date rubbed off, and I'll drop it in a glass of vinegar until the date reappears. Don't tell me I don't know how to party.

As for doilar coins, Canada had the right idea. When they introduced the Loonie, they discontinued and withdrew the dollar bill, and told the public to like it or lump it. The US's boneheaded insistence on keeping the paper dollar ensures that no dollar coin of any size or style will ever be embraced.

 

[tonyb]

I still have a Whitman coin folder with a few Mercury dimes in it, but it has been quite a while since I found a new one to add to it. Once in a great while I'll find a Buffalo nickel with the date rubbed off, and I'll drop it in a glass of vinegar until the date reappears. Don't tell me I don't know how to party.

As for doilar coins, Canada had the right idea. When they introduced the Loonie, they discontinued and withdrew the dollar bill, and told the public to like it or lump it. The US's boneheaded insistence on keeping the paper dollar ensures that no dollar coin of any size or style will ever be embraced.

How long since you've seen a steel penny in circulation? One that would show up in change from the convenience store would almost certainly have been recently stolen from someone's collection.

 

[1mach1]

I’ve noticed that “ink cartridges” for my printer from there are cheaper,
but tend to dry faster than same item at best buy stores at higher prices.
Some of Sam’s Warehouse outlets have closed. I've seen the items on the
shelves at Wal-mart.

I hear that. I buy my ink cartridges directly from Epson. Much fresher and I don't have any issues with them.

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[1mach1]

Do you check the date on the milk, bread or meat items?
Is there a difference in flavor or quality between famous name brand
and local store brand?
Do you have a grocery list or wander from aisle to aisle like my friend
from Maine?
Do you go to the check-out aisle with more than 15 items?
Do you pay with cash?
If you get change, does the clerk count the change or just hands it to you?
When you have several items, does the clerk asks if you need a bag?
Do you still have the options of paper or plastic bags?
How do you feel about self-service check-out?
Do you tip yourself for being courteous to yourself?

Pet peeve:
I cannot find much difference anymore between butter and margarine!

OK. Lets see.

Yes.
Absolutely.
List.
Yes.
Sometimes.
No counting.
No asking. Bag is always offered.
Yes. Paper or plastic.
I like self check out.
Hahahaha. I don't have any money as it is [emoji14]

That was fun

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[BobHufford]

Same with the Kennedy half-dollars. Haven't seen an example of either in the wild in what must be a couple of decades or more now.

My wife's Granddad would sell produce and junk at a weekly outdoor flea-market on the weekends. I helped him quite a few times. He liked to give half-dollars in change (or to little kids). Everyone seemed to be amazed to see them in circulation. He said "they only cost 50-cents each at the bank".

When we cleaned out his house after he passed we found rolls and rolls of the Kennedy halves. Quite a few of them were old enough to have some silver content. We still have them of course as we don't get rid of anything.

Back in the mid-1960s I was allowed to collect milk-money in the grade school cafeteria. I always brought a good supply of change with me from home and I bought every old coin that came through at face value. Started a pretty nice coin collection that way. I think my Dad took it over at some point when I lost interest. I think the best one I found was a 1916 'D' Mercury Dime.

 

[tonyb]

Remember when milk was just milk? I go to the store now and I have to search for milk through all its various incarnations now.

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We go through three or four gallons of nonfat milk per month, mostly to put in my lovely missus's morning coffee. We have a fancy pants espresso machine, and nonfat milk is far easier to steam to a nice froth. I'm so used to nonfat now that I can barely stomach whole milk. Waaaay too rich. Even 2 percent is a bit much for me.

The store brand is almost always priced at $1.99 per gallon, so the cost is negligible. But I have some familiarity with modern dairy practices, so I suffer few illusions about just what milk at that price means to the cows.

 

[LizzieMaine]

How long since you've seen a steel penny in circulation? One that would show up in change from the convenience store would almost certI actualainly have been recently stolen from someone's collection.

I actually got one in the till at the theatre a couple years ago -- it was shinier than any steel penny I'd ever seen, and had been passed as a dime. It was doubtless either a swipe from somebody's collection or somebody dropped it into circulation deliberately. If they want to try that with a 1916-D dime, I'm happy to play along, I need that one for my folder.

 

[1mach1]

My wife's Granddad would sell produce and junk at a weekly outdoor flea-market on the weekends. I helped him quite a few times. He liked to give half-dollars in change (or to little kids). Everyone seemed to be amazed to see them in circulation. He said "they only cost 50-cents each at the bank".

When we cleaned out his house after he passed we found rolls and rolls of the Kennedy halves. Quite a few of them were old enough to have some silver content. We still have them of course as we don't get rid of anything.

Back in the mid-1960s I was allowed to collect milk-money in the grade school cafeteria. I always brought a good supply of change with me from home and I bought every old coin that came through at face value. Started a pretty nice coin collection that way. I think my Dad took it over at some point when I lost interest. I think the best one I found was a 1916 'D' Mercury Dime.

I have a friend who works at a bank, and she sees Kennedy halfs and Eisenhower dollars with regularity. That said, she always puts them aside, and I come in and exchange paper money for said coins. I have quite the collection. Always loved those bigger coins.

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[1mach1]

We go through three or four gallons of nonfat milk per month, mostly to put in my lovely missus's morning coffee. We have a fancy pants espresso machine, and nonfat milk is far easier to steam to a nice froth. I'm so used to nonfat now that I can barely stomach whole milk. Waaaay too rich. Even 2 percent is a bit much for me.

The store brand is almost always priced at $1.99 per gallon, so the cost is negligible. But I have some familiarity with modern dairy practices, so I suffer few illusions about just what milk at that price means to the cows.

Wow! $1.99 a gallon? I need to move to your town [emoji14]

A gallon of milk here ranges from $3.50 to $4.00. Thats for the store brand. [emoji32]

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[Trenchfriend]

Talking of German bands.....

Here is a German joke I heard when living in West Germany, about East German Rock n' Roll bands.

Why is a East German rock band like the sun? Because both rise in the east and sink in the west.

And this is another part of german humor. Weimar-bus line:

 

[Doctor Strange]

Regarding rare coins that turn up in circulation:

My brother-in-law is a top-flight collector/dealer of valuable coins, though his real specialty is obsolete paper currency - the banknotes issued by thousands of local banks and businesses across the US before Lincoln established a single federal currency during the Civil War. This utterly fascinating bit of American history is followed by a smallish group of expert collectors, but remains unknown to 99% of the population, and just in terms of aesthetics, many of these notes are gorgeous. For example:



Anyway, one of the things that he's trained my sister and I to always do when we go food shopping is check the return slots on CoinStar machines. Interesting foreign coins and old silver coins frequently turn up... and many folks cashing in their change simply neglect to check their returns and leave them. It's worth a look!

 

[LizzieMaine]

From the town where I grew up.

 

[tonyb]

From the town where I grew up.

A three-dollar bill! Eureka!

We'll have to reconsider that old adage.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm not so sure. There were always a lot of phonies in that town.

 

[Trenchfriend]

You know, that you are nine years older, when your great iceblue neon-tube (18 watt) in the cupboard works since 2009.

 

[2jakes]

You know, that you are nine years older, when your great iceblue neon-tube (18 watt) in the cupboard works since 2009.

My friend...
I have bicycles which I rode as a kid when you were just a twinkle in your father’s eyes.
And I still enjoy riding them to this day.

 

[Trenchfriend]

My friend...
I have bicycles which I rode as a kid when you were just a twinkle in your father’s eyes.
And I still enjoy riding them to this day.

And I ride my bicycle since 1998, when I was 14. It's the ex-bicycle of my grandfather, bought in 1993 and I was thereby.

 

[2jakes]

And I ride my bicycle since 1998, when I was 14. It's the ex-bicycle of my grandfather, bought in 1993 and I was thereby.

 

[Zombie_61]

Ahh, 1980. The year my wife and I started dating. Meeeeeeemorieeeeeees...