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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!
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.
A relic from the before times.
These are the most interesting: OG google wallet (2011 expired 2021). Xbox Live has my gamertag blocked out but was from 2006?
My 90's era laminated blockbuster membership card. For the shits and the giggles
Blood type card. Completely worn from age, even though I’ve never needed it.
I went to college at eleven. Right before I graduated, they introduced photo IDs. They didn't really change their processes for validating IDs for about twenty years and it got me student discounts in the area, so I carried mine for ... About twenty years. Basically, until it snapped in half and a little longer. That was probably the oldest card in my wallet.
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 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.
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 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.
Years ago, I stopped carrying my wallet everywhere. A mobile phone handles payments, so what’s the point of a wallet and a stack of cards?
A few cards can’t be digitised on my phone, so I simply tuck them into my jacket pocket. I don’t need them very often anyway, so keeping them all with me isn’t even necessary, but they’re very light, so it’s fine. I usually only have two or three cards in my jacket pocket, not the whole wallet.
Technically, I also have a wallet, but that just contains all the ancient relics I need approximately once a year. So far, I’ve just kept it in my backpack. I wonder how soon would I notice if I just left it at home.
Hey, you do you, but after years of fixing busted phones, the absolute last thing I'd want to use for payments is a glass eggshell that's one accidental drop from becoming a useless brick, or more likely to get stolen as it's not in my pocket nearly as much as my wallet.
Give me a physical card or just plain old paper cash. If I drop either of those, well it won't break, I can just pick it right back up and dust it off and go on with my day.
Those things can certainly happen, not going to deny that. So far, unfortunate events like that have been exceedingly rare, so I'll just assume that's also going to be true in the future.
It's a risk I'm willing to take. Everyday convenience of using a phone for these things is more valuable to me.
I shop at so many places that don't allow tap, need a card inserted instead. Even staying at a hotel usually doesn't allow tap.
Yeah, that really depends on which part of the world you’re in. When I travel, I absolutely need to keep my wallet with me, since nothing works without cash.
...i still carry my county library card from 1982...
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
...i still regret losing my first university ID; never again will we look as good!..
Shoot. You are bordering on older than me!
...didn't get my own card until i was old enough to ride my bike to the library: independence milestone!..
(back then they weren't laminated: cardstock in a vinyl sleeve, transparent obverse, opaque reverse, and that shade of brown vinyl is VERY 1982)
I wasnt born for like 5 years after you got your card lol.
That’s fucking awesome and you should be proud! I love my library cards.
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.
I have my library card from 1991 still.
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...
1999 blockbuster card.
Blockbuster membership card.
My dead grandfathers Drivers License.
I still have my blockbuster card.
It's a small payslip from my first job. It's "only" 10 years old, but well.. only thing older than that that I keep that's not a photo or other obvious old thing (and actually in my wallet) is ticket from my first concert. Motorhead in 2009.
My middle school student ID was my answer before I removed the storage attachment thing in my wallet. Now it's probably some old paper note junk from about a decade ago. That, or my high school first year ID.
I've sill got my Mountain Equipment Co-op card from the year I spend in Calgary, in 1995.
A ticket to the opening night midnight showing of The Phantom Menace.
I really don't know why I keep that thing around.
Although I keep my wallet light, there was a point where I found a DC Metro card mixed in with the insurance cards. I had not been to DC for over a decade.
Of course I forgot it when I went to DC the following year and had to pay $3 for a new card. Now they live together in my transportation card collection.
Local library card. Last time it was replaced was when they switched systems, since then I just have to take a piece of mail in when they email me. They scan the same card (but ask if I want a new one) and it just keeps working.
Lol I have one of these too. I dont think they even do cards anymore. Its just your phone number