Poll: Do You Still Have Stuff From W*rk Days?

[Notmuchlonger]

Still have all my machinist tools. Can't get myself to be rid of them. They fit fine in my tool box

I took pride in my work and those were the tools. I'll die owning them.

 

[ls99]

My hiking boots, Marmot Mountain rain jacket made of Goretex, used to [-]work[/-] hang out in my Alaskan field office. Field trip for servicing a remote seismic station. And the backpack and cap with a proper pompom too. Photo from around 1986 on Baldy mountain in the Aleutians.

 

[rescueme]

Oh yeah, I did keep one suit so DW will have something to send me off in.

Have her make an ash out of you, and you can get rid of the suit ...

 

[eytonxav]

My hiking boots, Marmot Mountain rain jacket made of Goretex, used to [-]work[/-] hang out in my Alaskan field office. Field trip for servicing a remote seismic station. And the backpack and cap with a proper pompom too. Photo from around 1986 on Baldy mountain in the Aleutians.

No bear repellant in those keepsakes?

 

[ls99]

No bear repellant in those keepsakes?

Ruger 44 mag. Marlin 444 lever.

 

[obgyn65]

I checked 'Other'. I have a lot of medical supplies, sample meds and other equipment at home that I take with me to attend medical missions abroad.

 

[Keim]

A little trivia

Heh heh heh - I did send away and replace my College Degree - go Huskies.

Where I work we say Fuskies, UncleMick. Do you know what that stands for?

 

[kumquat]

I did send away and replace my College Degree - go Huskies.

You went to U of S?

 

[Gumby]

I left the Navy over 26 years ago, but I still have all my uniforms up in the attic. I don't know why. Just too lazy to clean it out, I guess.

 

[FreeAtLast]

Perhaps a couple of shirts and some computer books and manuals. I pitched my awards on my last day of w--k.

 

[Nords]

I confess, though I've been FIRE'd for over three years, I still haven't parted from a few w*rk items.
How about you?

When I retired from active duty I absconded with a WHOLE BOX of Skilcraft "U.S. Government" official black-ink ballpoint pens. A decade later we're still using one of them.

Whew. Hope the statute of limitations has expired. It feels good to get that one off my chest.

I also kept all my certificates (in clear plastic document sleeves) and a couple crucial sets of paperwork (like my retirement orders). I pried the brass plates off my plaques and gave the plaques back to the command's plaque custodians. The brass plates went onto a desk pen-set base that's slowly corroding away in the Hawaii humidity, so I'm probably going to have to come up with another display option.

Neither my spouse nor me wanted a shadowbox. My father made custom swordcases for my spouse and me back in 1982-83 (modeled on the swordcases in John Paul Jones' crypt at USNA), so those are displayed on our wall. (Our swords & cases, not JPJ.) In about 21 months our daughter is going to have to choose which one of our swords she wants to lug around for a few years.

I got rid of all my uniforms when I retired. Last month I got rid of the last of my civilian suit jackets, long-sleeved shirts, and neckties.

I just gave my daughter my ballistic missile submarine deterrent patrol pins (she'll have to add her own stars later). I'm saving my gold dolphins for her if she someday wants those too...

Flow-chart template? I not only have that, I still have my SLIDERULE.

Last winter I gave my last (favorite) sliderule to my son. He gave a chuckle.

Still have my Keuffel & Esser mahogony slide rule sitting in drawer. Not sure I can remember how to use it though. That and a few old HP calculators may find their way onto ebay.

My dad tried to give me his slide rules - I refused. I did help him list them as a lot on ebay.

I have THREE sliderules handed down from two earlier generations of Nords engineers. Watch for me soon on "Antiques Roadshow" or "Pawn Stars"!

I also have my c.1981 TI-55 III calculator. Luckily I've memorized what's on each of the buttons, because their labels have worn off...

 

[Cessna5354]

Still working but I have been thinning the pack of stuff. I have jettisonned the awards, letters, etc. When I leave, I am afraid to me that chapter is closed, kinda like leaving HS or college.
Funny with all the company shirts, pullovers, & jackets I have been given, like college I never purchased one myself.