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How old are you based on economic experience or position? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ill start, I never used a check. The only way I can get a house is waiting for my parents to die.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I know the manager of my bank branch by name.

I have a silver certificate.

I used to have to go deposit my weekly pay in cash at the bank, as a teen.

I bought a graphic hoodie off the Internet by mailing a paper cheque to a PO Box.

Bonus round:
My music collection included CDs, but also cassette tapes and vinyl.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I also know the brach manager of my bank by name. It's cause I work there tho..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are your vinyls ones you purchased brand new, before other forms of media were available?

If no, same question for the tapes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I was too young to purchase cassettes (though they were a vibrant part of my childhood I spent every penny of allowance on penny candy and saving up for game carriages) but I am definitely old enough to never be emotionally ready to part with those mini cloth binders full of CDs.

My first paycheck paid for a Sony Walkman that played disks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Vinyl, some were purchased new, but for me as gifts.

Tapes, all^+ were purchased new, most for me as gifts but some with my own money.

^+ except for the ones I recorded myself, of which three are several

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I bought a graphic hoodie off the Internet by mailing a paper cheque to a PO Box.

This reminded me of when I first bought something off eBay. I mailed out a check and crossed my fingers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You’re 47 and grew up upper middle class, likely in an affluent suburb on one of the coasts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Less old, less well-off, much much less coastal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

35, lower middle class, landlocked?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Split the difference, more-or-less, definitely.

Modernity came to the Plains late.