The man found the receipt in an old desk. © Sinnergie Laboratory
It should come as no surprise that a recovered receipt from 1989 from Lower Saxony shows the amount in Deutschmarks. The situation is different with the payment method.
Bielefeld/Hameln - Don't throw it away! That's probably what many people think when they hold a receipt in their hands. Especially if it is not food, but goods that you might want to return or exchange after all. It is not uncommon for the notes to end up somewhere, be forgotten, survive the years or even decades and then reappear. Photos of it then like to cause a stir on the net.
Old receipts always cause a stir on the net
This is what happened with a Schlecker receipt from the year 2000, where the finder is particularly amazed at a product. The Woolworth plastic bag, including its contents and receipts, which are frowned upon today, is also exciting. We had also reported on the receipts from a Grosso market from 1998 and a Kaufland from 1996. Of course, these show the prices in Deutschmarks in the same way as this contemporary document from Bavaria, which circulated on Facebook.
Man finds receipt from Lower Saxony dated May 23, 1989
Also from the D-Mark period is a discovery that an art historian from Bielefeld has now made public via Facebook and the Instagram page "Sinnergielabor". The find was made in an old desk, as he reports on the hashtag "MysteriesWednesday": "In our new old desk we found the receipt from the fashion house Opitz in Hamelin dated May 23, 1989." You can see the photo of the receipt by swiping or clicking on the arrow:
The find is 34 years old! Even if the ink is already a little faded, a lot of details can be discovered on the note. It starts with the four-digit postal code 3250 for Hamelin in Lower Saxony. And it goes even further, as the discoverer explains: "The women's trousers were paid for by cheque at 17:10 p.m. and cost 79 marks and 90 pfennigs at the time."
Completely unusual today: The women's trousers were paid for by cheque
It is well known that at the end of the 80s people were still trading in Deutschmarks. But that it was customary to pay for goods by check? Many people have probably forgotten this long ago. The payment method has long since ceased to be common - if you want to do without cash, you pull out a card these days. In the past, however, the bank customer could fill out forms and pay with them in shops - the recipient in turn could redeem the paper again. There were or are different types of cheques. Its decline in importance was accelerated by the expiry of the so-called Eurocheque guarantee at the end of 2001.
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By the way, many banks continue to offer cheques, whereby, for example, sparkasse.de ("Nowadays they are not often available") or vr.de ("are [...] no longer frequently used") already point to their antiquatedness. For some purposes - such as donations or in the insurance industry - they are still used. Finding a normal store in Germany that will still accept a check in 2023, on the other hand, should be a matter of luck. In 2021, a user at gutefrage.net wanted to know whether it was still possible to pay by check in the supermarket. Then another said, "I don't think you'll meet a cashier who's ever seen a check." For example, the check does not appear on the list of possible payment methods at lidl.de in the branches. An Edeka customer from Baden-Württemberg recently discovered a branch that seemed to have fallen out of time - the photos are impressive. (lin)