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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

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Something I haven't seen in years: A gift certificate.

Plenty of gift cards, but I don't remember the last time I saw a gift certificate, even though they're still out there.

Gotta shop local. Mom-and-pop shops still use them. One of my local coffee shops keeps track of their gift certificates in a three-ring binder. Like, on actual paper. And if you don’t use the whole amount, they do the math right on the back of the certificate.

And the owner is a millennial!
 
I had one similar to this as a kid. The horse was wooden rather than plastic, but the setup was the same. Used to get skin caught in the springs if not careful.
I didn't have one of these. I had a rocking horse a carpenter friend of my dad's made for me. It is still in good condition after having been used by me and three more generations of kids. I don't have any pics of it at the moment, maybe later.
 
I didn't have one of these. I had a rocking horse a carpenter friend of my dad's made for me. It is still in good condition after having been used by me and three more generations of kids. I don't have any pics of it at the moment, maybe later.
I don’t have any pix of mine, but I have a short snippet from my dad’s 8mm home movies of my sister and I riding it.