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“Great time”: While cleaning up, a man from Hesse came across an old Karstadt receipt from 1999.
The details don't just make him nostalgic.
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A Facebook user from Hesse is not the first and only person to be taken on a mental journey through time by discovering a receipt.
In recent months and years, an old note from the Schlecker drugstore chain has caused astonishment on social media.
Or one from 1989. Or a receipt from a supermarket from 1998 discovered in Hesse.
“Old Karstadt receipt from 1999”: Hesse is getting nostalgic
The receipt that Christoph Bonnard posted in the Facebook group “Fulda - my city” is only slightly “younger”.
“A little detour into the past... an old receipt from Karstadt from 1999, just discovered while cleaning up,” he writes.
And as is usual with old receipts, there is a lot to discover.
For example, the Karstadt branch on Universitätsplatz in Fulda, which still exists today under the name Galeria, advertised with the slogan “bigger, more modern, more beautiful”.
There is a lot to discover on the Karstadt receipt from 1999.
© Christoph Bonnard/Facebook
Also noticeable: Although payment was made in German marks, the price was already shown in both currencies due to the impending final switch to the euro on January 1, 2002, “for the purpose of getting used to it,” as Bonnard remembers in the comments.
The VAT was 16 percent.
And of course it's also interesting to see what the Karstadt customer at the time bought: “King's Quest 8” cost 49.99 German marks.
Hesse wasted his Christmas money at Karstadt and bought the PC game “King's Quest 8”
That shouldn't mean anything to younger people.
The term “King's Quest” should make the hearts of computer gamers from back then soar.
It is a legendary game series from Sierra, for genre fans alongside the “Space Quest” series or the Lucasarts publications (“Monkey Island”! “Maniac Mansion”! “Zak McKracken”) was one of the Adventure ultimate in the 90s.
A connoisseur promptly jumped on it on Facebook.
“I also had a part of the game, back then in some collector's box with other titles.” Bonnard reacts: “It was very recently published back then, the games were still available in the big cardboard boxes with a manual that resembled half a novel.
Great time!” A technical discussion ensues about the PCs of yesteryear, which would of course be laughed at today because of their technical data.
“Very special highlight towards the end of the year”: Hesse remembers shopping trips to Fulda
The date on the receipt – December 28th, 1999 – suggests that someone wasted their Christmas bonus.
Bonnard confirms this to our editorial team.
Today he is 38 years old, he says, so almost 25 years ago he was still a child as a Karstadt customer.
“We used to go shopping with the family to Fulda between the years; that was always a very special highlight towards the end of the year.
I always spent my Christmas money there and with many of these purchases I associate pretty much the greatest nostalgic moments from those times, for example 'King's Quest 8', 'Tomb Raider 3' or 'Zelda' for the Gameboy.
You could say that I bought all of these games at the Karstadt in Fulda.”
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The 38-year-old explains that he lives in Antrifttal in the Vogelsberg district (Central Hesse).
There he also stumbled across the old Karstadt receipt.
“As a child or teenager, I used to always make special memory pages, which were simply DIN A4 sheets of paper on which I stuck things related to special days, for example receipts, restaurant bills, beer mats, etc.” He is now “ Recently, while cleaning up, I came across the same album with all the 'memory pages' and the King's Quest receipt was attached with tape to one of these pages." He now also spread his nostalgic feeling in the Facebook group.
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