My Auto Zone Rewards card is from 2007, hard to think that the card is close to 20 years old now. Last time I used it, I used it to scrape glue off the side of a truck LOL!
A relic from the before times.
I have a fortune cookie fortune that I got in 90s. It just says “Good fortune” and I’ve never been able to decide if it’s a prediction or a self-review. For whatever reason, I’ve just kept moving it from wallet to wallet for 30 years.
I don’t know how y’all manage that. I’m always looking to thin things out and move unused cards to a drawer and eventually the shredder/trash. I think my US passport card is probably the oldest thing in my wallet.
I was thinking the same thing, I keep three cards. My ID, insurance card, and a credit card. Nothing else
ID, credit, debit, transit, auto insurance, health insurance…
On topic, I did recently stop carrying a phone card - back before cell phones, you could buy a card, call an 800-number from a pay phone, enter the card number, and make long distance calls. My parents gave me 1200 minutes when I went to college in the late 1980s, and the card still has, probably 1000 minutes. Last used it probably around 2002.
Meh, I just finally did some wallet spring cleaning and thinned out my load quite a bit, but decided to keep this card anyways, as I still have plenty enough space for it. Hey, it makes a good glue scraper, plus I can’t remember what phone number my AutoZone account is registered to, so hopefully they can still scan it and figure it out the next time I go by there…
How often are you scraping glue?
About once every 7 years or so.
Good news though, I just got the card reactivated under my current phone number! 👍
Now it’s not trash!
Not posting a picture of mine because it’s extremely eroded, plus I’ve been posting it in social media as a curiosity, but I got one of these:
That “weird coin” used to be a bus ticket in my city, Curitiba, in the 90s. You’d insert it into a turnstile inside the bus to get access to the seats. Nowadays they got replaced with electronic cards.
I’m sure electronic cards are better, but that’s pretty cool!
The cards are way better (less likely to get stolen/lost), but I kind of miss using those coin-like… voucher-tokens-whatever.
I have something like this. It’s a toll booth coin to get across the man made causeway and onto the island I live on. We used to have to pay to get home. The toll booths were removed in the early 90’s.
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I had mine from 1990. When I took my kids to get theirs and checkout books, the librarians faces lit up when they saw it. We bought a house and it got lost. Over 30 years T_T
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That’s fucking awesome and you should be proud! I love my library cards.
Shoot. You are bordering on older than me!
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I wasnt born for like 5 years after you got your card lol.
Hey, at least your auto-repair card is getting used for auto-repair!
Mine is a shooting range membership card I haven’t been a member of for a few years now. (Just throwing this out now, thank you for the reminder!)
LMFAO, hell yeah! 👍
That’s been a number of years ago, but yeah it’s still my card and the account number on the back is still good. But now they just go by your phone number, if only I could remember what phone number its registered to…
Dang you guys are crazy (in a good way). Oldest thing in my wallet is only a bit over 2 years old, and it is an arcade card I still use semi-regularly wherever it is accepted… I do have older cards too but they are all sitting at home in a binder
My 90’s era laminated blockbuster membership card. For the shits and the giggles
1999 blockbuster card.
These are the most interesting: OG google wallet (2011 expired 2021). Xbox Live has my gamertag blocked out but was from 2006?I have my library card from 1991 still.
My dead grandfathers Drivers License.
Blood type card. Completely worn from age, even though I’ve never needed it.
That would be my first flight instructor certificate that expired in 2012. The oldest thing I have in my wallet at all is my pilot’s license that was issued in 2005, it is still valid.
Blockbuster membership card.
