{"id":135922,"date":"2025-08-11T03:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135922\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:12:17","slug":"older-adults-share-common-knowledge-from-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135922\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Adults Share Common Knowledge From Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      5.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;As a broke college student, I couldn&#8217;t get a credit card, and I got a monthly check, so things got tight during the month (this was in the early &#8217;70s before debit cards)&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To help me out,\u00a0my older brother taught me this: Sears would issue a store credit card to college students. I used it to purchase a gift certificate for, say, $40. I would then use the gift certificate to buy a couple of pairs of socks, and then they gave me the rest in change. $30-35 went a long way back then. At the end of the month, I would pay the bill, then rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>I kept (and used) my Sears card for many, many years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskOldPeople\/comments\/1mfr9hy\/comment\/n6kixl8\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">u\/ez_as_31416<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5. &#8220;As a broke college student, I couldn&#8217;t get a credit card, and I got a monthly check,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42329,64,2095,46331,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-135922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bestofinternet-reddit","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-evergreen","11":"tag-flipped","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115007949664539591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}