We were talking in the office about stuff that our Dads used to bring home from their work, late 70's it was Bluebird toffee then early 80's Ever Ready batteries... must be a generation thing, the younger children of the 90's in the office were perplexed Dad brought stuff home for 'free' ahem...
Stuff that your Dad used to get from work...
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
My dad would bring back steel bearings. Marble sized ones and dobbers. Cool having steel marbles.
Haitch
Flim Flormally
- Location
- Netherlands
My Dad worked for Ford and he used to come home with all the commemorative coins you used to get from petrol stations in the 60s and 70s. I had full sets of just about everything: the Apollo missions, the England World Cup team, history of flight. The day after he left Ford he bought a Jaguar.
wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
- Location
- West Sussex
Knowledge. My dad was a sub-editor, and had proof-read many of my school text books.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
A newspaper every day. He worked at the Nottingham Evening Post and they got free copies ...
My dad was a printer all his life. He was a print machine minder for one of the classic Heidelburg machines.
It was a family run firm so we used to drop in as kids. He used to let us activate the machine by engaging the lever you can see in the pic to start the machine running. I can still hear the sounds and the machine smell even to this day.
Any way, he used to bring home the lead letters that went into the machine. We used them as a home made Letraset. We also had more paper then we knew what to do with.
It was a family run firm so we used to drop in as kids. He used to let us activate the machine by engaging the lever you can see in the pic to start the machine running. I can still hear the sounds and the machine smell even to this day.
Any way, he used to bring home the lead letters that went into the machine. We used them as a home made Letraset. We also had more paper then we knew what to do with.
Arjimlad
Tights of Cydonia
- Location
- South Glos
I used to wake up and find a roe deer dead on the back lawn every now & then. My Dad was the only police officer who knew how to butcher a deer, and the police were charged with keeping HM Highway clear of road hazards... we had a tasty stew/pie, and the officer who brought it round had a haunch for his family.
mickle
innit
- Location
- 53.933606, -1.076131
What my dad got from work: Sacked. For stealing.
The dickhead.
The dickhead.
Toshiba Boy
N+1er
- Location
- By the beach, West Zummerzet
Snap! My Dad did exactly the same. The steel ball bearings commanded a high "Marble to Ball Bearing exchange rate" (which was great for me, as Dad could get as many as I needed!)
jayonabike
Powered by caffeine & whisky
- Location
- Hertfordshire
One of my Dads many jobs was a second hand car dealer. We never had our own car, he'd just use one he liked off of his forecourt until he sold it then move onto another.
Most weeks I'd walk home from school and there would be a different car on the drive.
Most weeks I'd walk home from school and there would be a different car on the drive.
Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
- Location
- On the edge of reality
Apart from Christmas when he used to come back with bottles of spirits, calendars, smokes etc., from suppliers' reps, the main thing was huge cardboard boxes. In the days before PCs, computers were mainframes and component parts used to be delivered in them. The sheepdogs we had used to use them as beds.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Dad worked with computers from 1963, he'd brought home a few obsolete parts from work as a kind of 'museum' of the technology. My favourite was one of these,
A ferrite ring core memory unit.
A ferrite ring core memory unit.
RedRider
Pulling through
- Location
- Location Embrocation
My dad worked for Ford too (Halewood). He worked alongside Howard Gayle's dad so he'd regularly bring back signed photos of Liverpool FC's first black footballer for my wall.
One time he brought back a case ball he'd won in a factory raffle. It was covered in red and blue signatures from all the lfc and efc players of the day and was the match ball from the derby, he said. I played with that ball til all the signatures rubbed and scuffed away.
Years later I asked why he'd let me play with such a precious thing which was when he fessed up...'only the Everton autographs were genuine, I forged the Reds'.
