Quote Originally Posted by Brin View Post
Old paperwork and in particular old wage slips for different times in my working life. 3.2.1990 working at Silverwood Colliery as a Heading worker underground, my weekly wage drawn after stoppages, was £192.95. This composed of a payment for working night shifts, £2.50! My bonus was £88.05, yes we had targets to reach and if you didn't your basic pay was £183.25 before stoppages. On reflection, it was a dirty dangerous job, if you didn't watch yourself and many miles underground depending where you worked at the time.

Fast forward to 1998 and at the time I was a Deputy Manager for Dixons Stores Group on Fargate, Sheffield. I later became Manager of the store. My weekly wage on 12.12.1998 was £189.95. Not even the same wage but a further 8 years on.

Also came across some old photos and it's amazing how when you see the black and white photo's, you can recall what colour the top you was wearing, I kid you not.

I've harboured some crap in the garage over the years but the good lady said it was time to let it go. A very big trip to the tip tomorrow is awaiting.

Anyone else been clearing their loft or garage out and come across strange things?
Used to keep all my paper payslips Brin but decided to prune them down when everything went all online. Still have one from my first full time job where I took home under £300 for a full month's work. Mind you, monthly rent at the time was around £100 for a 3 bed house split 3 ways.

Cleared out the garage a couple of years ago, sold a lot of stuff (110V tools anticipating the move back, vinyl records, tiles) and tossed a lot of stuff including a couple of hundred Millers programmes, old uni text books.

Not really come across strange things, unless you count photos of me in 1970s/80s 'fashion'. Still have those velvet jackets because I know one day....