Stuff that your Dad used to get from work...

[shouldbeinbed]

My dad worked for Fisons, the only thing safe to bring home was a yellow fertiliser measuring bucket my brother took a shine to on a visit to the factory floor and slept wearing for a fortnight.

& we had the best chlorinated water on the campsites of the New Forest.

 

[jonny jeez]

Nowt from my dad but my grandparents ran a sweet shop in Heathfield. We used to visit most weekends (not surprisingly) and could help ourselves during the day.

Best of all were the sweet fayres, where we were encouraged to take a large paper bag and fill it with samples from all the manufacturers that attended.

One Easter we each took home a chocolates Easter bunny that sat up and was around 2 feet high.

I later learnt that whilst he fought his way across Europe (along with the easy company that were immortalised in the show band of brothers...no he wasn't American) my grandad dreamt of opening a sweet shop and swore that if he survived the war, he would find a quiet place to live out his dream.

At the end of the tv series capt winter's (played by Damien Lewis) uses almost the exact same phrase to describe his plans....spooky.

 

[srw]

My mum brought home piles of marking. The only thing my dad brought home for free was bread rolls bought for home communions - although the house itself came free with the job.

 

[hondated]

My dad ( well the man I thought was my dad but that's another story) used to be milkman and delivered to the Nestle office so used to bring home boxes of chocolate and large tins of instant coffee neither which were stolen but part of a " fiddle " so that was ok then !

 

[Hill Wimp]

My Dad was the village doctor so it wasn't unusual to come home and find a bottle of Scotch or a couple of pheasant on the doorstep, left by grateful patients. Also in the old days the drug companies used to hand out all kinds of promotional stuff, usually desk gadgets, with brand names like "Amoxycillin - for that nasty little infection" or whatever printed on them.

My parents worked for a drugs company, one made it the other sold it so the house was full of mugs,pens and all manner of reps freebies.

At one point we had a glut of Hawian Tropic sun lotion as their company made that too somewhere in the world.

 

[Accy cyclist]

My dad worked as a coach builder for 49 years. In that time he must've "borrowed" loads of wood and coach paint. I always used to wonder why our house was the same colour as buses we saw.

 

[Diggs]

Dad worked at British Gas and brought home all manner of promotional pens, badges , keyrings etc. I remember one set of material being highly sort after when it was quickly pulled as the heavily innuendo laden "Do you need regular servicing" theme, pictures and tag-line was deemed a little unsuitable

 

[Dave 123]

My dad was an electrician in the Bowaters sack factory in Ellesmere Port. We had lots of paper sacks and 4' wide, mile long rolls of brown paper.

Every December a Lorry would come from Norway full of Christmas trees. This one year my dad must have been first in the queue. Our tree that year was a big, bushy 7 footer that was covered head to toe in pine cones. Magical!

 

[postman]

My best mate at school his dad was head of the highways dept.He got suspended when equipment went missing.He denied it but when they searched his garage,the signs were there.

 

[palinurus]

Glassfibre sheet and the resin which is used in its manufacture.

• All our internal doors were clad with glassfibre sheet
• The rabbit run was a rejected glass fibre skylight from an airport
• The placemats and coasters were images cut out from magazines and embedded in resin.
• There were a number of ornaments which were made of resin poured into those rubber moulds for plaster of Paris.
• The shed was made principally of glass fibre sheet
• The nearside wing of the Beetle was made of glass fibre

Practically farking everything was made of glass fibre.

 

[ufkacbln]

Not my father, but an older School friend

Used to work with a large record company

Used to have the sample singles and albums that went to radio stations to try and get bands on to play lists

We did not under any circumstances copy these records

 

[raleighnut]

Not my father, but an older School friend

Used to work with a large record company

Used to have the sample singles and albums that went to radio stations to try and get bands on to play lists

We did not under any circumstances copy these records

We've got a few 'Promotional Copy not for re-sale' LPs and CDs

 

[Brains]

My Grandfather worked in the London Docks in the 30's and 40's and my father in the 60's and 70's
All sorts of stuff used to be 'taxed' by the stevedores off the ships.

So apparently during WW2 the family had booze, petrol and grain (for feeding the animals they did not officially have)
During the 70's at the time of the 3 day week I remember things that were in short supply, fuel, paraffin lighting, paraffin radiators, candles, tinned food all arriving, often by personal delivery.

 

[RoubaixCube]

My dad used to work in IT Ops for Barclays bank back in the 80s to the early/mid 90s. he bought half the contents of the entire server room back with him over the years.

 

[palinurus]

Practically farking everything was made of glass fibre.

His bike wasn't though. At least there was that.