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Check Your Old Cards
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05-02-2024, 01:37 PM
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At least you can spend yours. I was going through some stuff a while back, and found $200 in American Express traveler's checks that are at least 35 years old. Good luck to me trying to spend those!
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05-02-2024, 02:10 PM
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Just curious...Could it be that they were cards you meant to send to others but conveniently never got around to it?
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05-02-2024, 03:26 PM
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Just curious...Could it be that they were cards you meant to send to others but conveniently never got around to it?
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No, I have the envelopes
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05-02-2024, 03:30 PM
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We recently went to eat at Cracker Barrel and I asked my wife didn't I remember we had some gift cards for there?.. Turns out, we had about $80 in gift cards balances.
One of them was so old it required a corporate override because it was issued before bar codes were standard on cards.
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05-02-2024, 03:47 PM
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My wife got a new vehicle Tuesday. Cleaning out her old car I found 3 singles and some change. Told her I hit the jackpot. She said give it back. I keep it to tip the people that dry cars at car wash.
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05-02-2024, 05:23 PM
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It is your lucky day Pete, it just happens
That I am selling raffle tickets for
A retired race horse . Will get $150 worth
On the way to you as quick as possible.
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05-02-2024, 08:41 PM
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You still get cash for your Bday! Wow I havent seen that since probably 12!
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05-02-2024, 08:55 PM
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You can contact American Exp--We did it online, they took the #'s and mailed a check. Didn't even have to send the checks as I remember...About 5 years ago. The checks I had were 1970's issue
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05-02-2024, 08:58 PM
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The card my son got....
..had the bottom slit and the check was gone.
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When my grandfather died my sisters and I were helping clean out their house in upstate NY. Grandma had died 363 days prior. At the time we all speculated that Grandpa would not last a year without her. We found a dresser drawer where she had saved every birthday / valentines / Christmas card that grandpa had given her over the course of over 50 years. Most contained currency whatever he could afford at the time… $5 / $10 and later $20. Grandpa served in WWI in the US Navy. They were married in the 20s. Money didn’t come easy.
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05-02-2024, 11:21 PM
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We always joke that one of our lifelong friends is so cheap:
"He still has his Communion money"
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05-02-2024, 11:51 PM
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We always joke that one of our lifelong friends is so cheap:
"He still has his Communion money"
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I wonder how many people have the Golden Dollars and $2 bills I've spread around. I know one bartender said he had a dedicated piggy bank for them.
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05-03-2024, 12:28 AM
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I do love me some Sacajawea Dollars.
But when I get them, I keep them!
I wonder does Golddollar have one of these?
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05-03-2024, 06:16 AM
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About 10 years ago we bought our daughter a Nikon digital SLR type camera and bag and some accessories for Christmas.
She also got money in cards that she added to an envelope of cash she had been saving. About $400 in total IIRC.
After opening the gifts we started redding up the living room because we had visitors due.
A week or so later my daughter got some more cash and went to add it to her stash but couldn’t find it. We turned the house upside down looking for it to no avail. We guessed it must have got mixed in with boxes and wrapping paper and thrown out.
We really felt bad for the kid.
Fast forward a few months. Our daughter was going on a day trip with friends. She brought down her camera case to make sure she had all her gear ready. I saw her open the case and pick up a thick envelope inside it with a puzzled look. She quickly looked inside the envelope and there was her missing money.
Apparently she stuck it in her bag while cleaning up.
It was as though the weight of the world had been lifted off of her shoulders.
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I wonder how many people have the Golden Dollars and $2 bills I've spread around. I know one bartender said he had a dedicated piggy bank for them.
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$2 bills are a gift from above for tips...I recently went to my bank and got a full bank stack of $2 bills that were consecutively serial numbered. Every time I had any work done around the house, I tipped with two consecutively numbered bills and the recipients face lit up like I handed them a Jackson.
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Could you take those American Express Travelers checks to a bank for redemption?
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Slightly off topic, but my father was a lawyer. He told me that one time early in his career one of the senior partners lost something and decreed that all the files had to be searched. Dad told me that they found several thousand $ of un-deposited checks and a stack of legal pads 3' tall.
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05-03-2024, 12:19 PM
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You can contact American Exp--We did it online, they took the #'s and mailed a check. Didn't even have to send the checks as I remember...About 5 years ago. The checks I had were 1970's issue
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Could you take those American Express Travelers checks to a bank for redemption?
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Thanks, guys. I'll give it a try. All I have to do now is remember where I put them!
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I do love me some Sacajawea Dollars.
But when I get them, I keep them!
I wonder does Golddollar have one of these?
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I've had a lot of Sacajawea Dollars pass through my hands but I have never seen a commemorative piece like that. That is fabulous.
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05-03-2024, 09:23 PM
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$2 bills are a gift from above for tips...I recently went to my bank and got a full bank stack of $2 bills that were consecutively serial numbered. Every time I had any work done around the house, I tipped with two consecutively numbered bills and the recipients face lit up like I handed them a Jackson.
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My nephew is graduating from college tomorrow and I'm going to send him a graduation card stuffed with 2 pads of $2 bills inside. I figure nobody else in the family will do anything like that.
One of the cooks at the local Eagles Aerie really likes $2 bills, so I often pay for my meals with them and flag him down in the kitchen so he can trade out for them.
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