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

[Globalti]

I once had a job at a bike factory called Comrade Cycles and I used to bring home all kinds of stuff that I found lying on the floor. But I wasn't a Dad, as far as I know.

 

[stalagmike]

Both my parents worked for the milk marketing board as was. Going through photo albums I can usually be seen wearing t shirts with "I've gotta lotta bottle" and such like on them....nice

Yep! We had all that stuff too. And the dairy diaries. And hampers at Christmas.

 

[TrishE]

Yep! We had all that stuff too. And the dairy diaries. And hampers at Christmas.

Forgot about those! It was the time when cows had names so when going along my mum would say things like "All those cows are named after washing powders" lol

 

[Booyaa]

When the old man was in the police he used to bring home bullet proof vests and we would try them on each other firing my air rifle at them. He would also have loads of bomb making stuff and drugs around as he had sniffer dogs as well.

when he left the force he worked at a shell petrol station and we got a box of sweeties every week and anything they had promotions on, just gave a full set of cars to my son to play with. Got hundreds of towels, which were handy for both me and my sisters first houses and when my mum recently moved house we recycled about 15 boxes of unused glasses.

when he bought the dry cleaners we didn't get anything free but all our clothes were dry cleaned and pressed by the staff. Good times.

 

[Cheddar George]

Miles of paper on an offcut roll from a papermill ....... i could barely lift it !

Miles of cellophane on a offcut roll from British Cellophane ...... i could barely lift it ! Mum was still using it long after i left home. It had a beautiful oily purple colour when the roll caught the sunlight.

 

[Dec66]

Nothing.

Anything my dad "appropriated" would be sold for pin money (he used to give my mum all his wages, so he had to have a sideline or two to pay for his occasional beer).

I didn't mind, I had no use growing up for welding rods, two-pack paint or red diesel.

 

[Cheddar George]

My dad was a coach driver when I were a nipper. They let him keep all the freebies given away with fuel. Our drinks cabinet is to this day stocked with Shell's finest.

I think we've also got one of the promotional Bova Futura models in Boyden's colours. It looked like this (In fact, I think that's me dad!):

My dad did the same as he had a company car, growing up in the seventies i was distraught as he refused to use BP where they were giving away smurfs.

 

[marknotgeorge]

My dad did the same as he had a company car, growing up in the seventies i was distraught as he refused to use BP where they were giving away smurfs.

My dad had to use Shell as the Boyden family owned the village Shell garage. And they used to prefer Bedfords as they had the Vauxhall dealership.

And I've just remembered that when I was a very small boy, Mum worked at a National Benzole garage. I think we might've got Smurfs from there.

 

[Arjimlad]

I have remembered that when I was about 15 my Mum started serving in the chip shop.

They were strictly schooled in giving the smallest possible portions of chips out, I think the serving staff had to weigh the portions until they could serve them up in the correct amounts without scales. A fistful of chips was about all you got.

I stopped going there for chips because it simply wasn't enough for a growing lad, but Mum used to bring leftover battered sausages, fishcakes and chips etc home every now & then.

 

[SteCenturion]

My dad was a milkman, you can guess the rest.

I am itching to comment but shall refrain !

 

[machew]

Cups, Post-it notes from drug reps. Used artificial hips

 

[Sara_H]

I was the milkmans daughter! When I was at primary school my dad used to time his delivery with the morning playtime so he could see me for a minute or two. I was so proud that my dad delivered the school milk!
Later on he got a job as a bus conductor (remember them?) and he used to bring home the end rolls of the bus tickets which had a 101 different uses to an imaginative mind.
Once he brought a bus home, to this day I have no idea why, him and his driver mate just turned up, parked a bus outside had a cup of tea and then left.

 

[Sara_H]

Oh, and a bit off topic - my mum worked at Bassets. There used to be a staff shop selling mishapes. I never saw a normal shaped liquorice all sort till I was about 10 years old!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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.

Did he get it this way?

 

[sight-pin]

My Dad used to bring home ball races which i could use as barrow wheels, they were great.....that is until you dangled your fingers a little too close to the wheel going down hill....Ouch!
As a diesel mechanic i sometimes had to work on a chocolate tanker before it was steamed out, i'd whip the manhole cover off, jump in and chisel huge lumps of choc.....avoiding the greasy boot mark patch of course lol