Inspired by something I've just seen - When you first read this posting, check your pockets and report the contents....!
1. A 1GB Fuji XD card.
2. My wallet.
3. A piece of slate (small as my nail)
4. A very small piece of Blu-Tac
5. A collection of blue Tesco perfumed nappy bags - cheaper by a mile than proper pooh bags.
6. Sales receipt for my lunch today.
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Shirt pocket, disintegrated tissue, must have been in there prior to previous wash.
er no trousers...:-)
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>> er no trousers...:-)
Still wearing a frock then, buddy ?
Ted
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>> Still wearing a frock then, buddy ?
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Not tonight sweety x, no kecks no socks just the shirt, SWM likes it li...;)
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1 x M6 nut
1x washer to go with it
2 x crumpled paper hankies
1 x ticket from arsenal/Marseille fitbal match on Tuesday.
Glad to have found the nut and washer, which I had forgotten about, and might have ended up in the washing machine :-)
Quiet night eh?
Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 4 Nov 11 at 10:41
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1. Keyring: FRV + Shogun
2. Keyring: 3 house keys and plipper for house alarm
3. Keyring: 11 keys for parents' houses, work, bicycle lock and one I'm not sure of...
4. Phone
5. Wallet
6. Pen torch
7. 38 coins totalling about £15
Funnily enough when I throw out trousers they have holed pockets!
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My word... those are big pockets. Or lots of them!
I've got some tissues and about £2 in coins. When out I'd have the car key fob and maybe the house keys. And one or two mobiles depending on day or week and time of day - work one and mine.*
* used to just have the work one and pay pittance for personal calls. Now turn it off when not working and do not take it on holidays! Have to now pay for a contract of course. Also planning for when I don't work for them and live in Greece.... :-)
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5x£1 coins
1x£2 coin
1x20p
1x10p
1x5p
1x5p
Wallet contains
2 x visa credit cards (total credit limit £17,500)
1 x visa debit card
1 x mastercard credit card (limit £2,500)
driving license
10 x first class stamps
Virgin red flying club card
hertz no 1 club gold card
2 x £20 notes
2 x £10 notes
1 x £5 notes
1 credit card receipt for afternoon tea at the palm court, Langham hotel -l £85.50
1 day travel card valid for another 1.5 hours
Last edited by: Zero on Thu 3 Nov 11 at 22:28
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Z
Do you get Fat Rascals at the Langham?
I would hope so for that price
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>> Z
>> Do you get Fat Rascals at the Langham?
>> I would hope so for that price
we had
Finger sandwiches including
• Cucumber, cream cheese and chives
• Cornfed chicken breast with honey mustard
• Free range hen’s eggs and Secretts Farm mustard cress
• Smoked Scottish salmon with horseradish
• Yellow fin tuna, sunblush tomatoes and rocket basil bread
Warm selection of golden raisin scones and plain from our Palm Court
bakery with Devonshire clotted cream and strawberry preserve
Selection of French pastries and specialist mini cakes
• Salted Caramel popcorn meringue • • •
• Tainori 64% • • • Valrhona chocolate tower
• Mango and kalamansi dome
• English rose macaroon with raspberry and lychee cream
• Fresh strawberry tart with pistachio
and of course a pot or two of excellent tea
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2 pooh bags!
Some kitchen roll sheets folded up ... goes back to when I had a serious nose bleed all of 6 years ago :-D
A piece of flint that I use as a knife, I picked it up from the gravel drive, but looking at it, it looks like it may have been 'worked' (I know about these things, see).
That's about it ... oh, I've just found an elastic band in my little jean pocket, the one where I used to put my 'deals', and there's also a piece of paper with my cc pin #, which has gorn through the wash umpteen thymes, but I know it off by art anyway,
Interesting ya?
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I didn't include my wallet....
- Cash (£50 ... usually less)
- 2 x Mastercard credit cards (£10k total limit...ish)
- 1 x Visa credit card (£12k limit)*
- 1 x Visa debit card
- 1 x Diners Club chargecard (no 'real' limit as it's a chargecard)
- Tesco club card
- Sainsbury Nectar card
- Driving licence
- National Trust membership
- Fuel card
* Blimey they've crept up.... those three are about £22k.... have one with a limit of £17500 with a zero percent offer (transfer free of course)! Cheap loan anyone. I have kept the latter purely because it might be useful when/if we buy somewhere abroad. Plan unravelling in Greece!
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Trousers:
- Wallet with £20 cash, business cards, building pass for work, emergency barclaycard etc
- CC wallet with debit card, other credit cards, Nectar card and misc membership cards
- Keyring (both cars, front door, roofbars/box and cablelock for Brommy on train)
- Multitool for son's bike - borrowed for running repairs on mine.
- Receipt for beer bought in Daventry Tesco at 09:25 tonight
- Coins to value of £2.26
Shirt:
- Rail season from Northampton to Euston, photocard, Oystercard, book of stamps& £20 emergency cash
Rohan Top
- Strip each of Syndol tension headache tablets and Nurofen Plus.
And my mobile is clipped to my belt.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Thu 3 Nov 11 at 23:02
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>> - Rail season from Northampton to Euston, photocard, Oystercard, book of stamps& £20 emergency cash
Makes me realise I am lucky. If I travel to the nearest office is 29 miles (shorter routes possible). But I don't go often. Longer trips I claim! That is probably not an expensive commute by many peoples standards! But ouch.
Maybe I don't earn enough and find that as expensive (I assume of course).
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>> Makes me realise I am lucky. If I travel to the nearest office is 29
>> miles (shorter routes possible).
Difficult to explain without telling my life story. In brief, until recent dispersals to the Midlands my career was always going to be in London. Mrs B is a science teacher and they need those everywhere. We moved out here 20 years ago on basis that mortgage + fares were equal to those in Watford or Hemel but we were a lot nearer ailing parents up north living here.
Low interest rates might have skewed the sums of late but I've never regretted it. I live in the country, my kids had access to excellent schools and we're out of the South East.
The train takes an hour but I get a seat and can read/think/enjoy the view. I could spend as long standing on the tube.
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I was only thinking financials Bromptonaut. And not prying. If I travel further I get all the money essentially . If I take the train to work in London for a project I obviously get all of it.
I get most/all business miles. And the company car I have has all expenses paid apart from personal miles.
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I tend not to carry coins in my trousers, I find them uncomfortable.
Normally, like today, I only carry a couple of notes in me strides...2 tenners today.
The rest goes in my coat, or gilet in Summer.
Pen and small notebook.
Cheapo reading glasses
Phone
Bus pass, debit card and maybe one empty credit card.
Swipe card for access to fleet cars.
Canderel
Couple of tissues
Polaroids...but I'm usually wearing them.
Car and front door key.
Today, about £15 in pounds and fifties
Usually, a couple of till receipts.....fuel or bits for work.
My manbag copes with everything else if I need to be out for longer.
Ted
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Just been out for evening, rare occurrence, in a skirt which has too good a shape for pockets ;-]
Jeans worn earlier have nappy sacs/treats for dogs plus a tissue, just in case.
Bag, incase you are interested, has phone, small notebook and pen, purse with cards, asthma inhaler, lip gloss and compact Olympus camera.
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Nothing while at home. First thing I do when I get home from work is take my phone, wallet, keys, and mans purse out the pockets and chuck them by the side of the PC.
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Swiss Army knife (small)
Purse .
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Wallet -
3xDebit cards ( 2 for personal accounts, one for joint)
4x Credit cards - including my Tesco card which has a low limit for internet use (old habit)
Shell card
Book of 1st class stamps
IAM membership card
Co-Op loyalty card
Blacks/Millets 15% discount card (worth its weight that)
Unusually large amount of cash (400 quid) 370 of is needed to pay a fencing contractor today.
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Car keys, wallet ( with 70p in it ) and mobile.
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I never carry money - that's what my personal assistant does.
Trouble is she won't give me any money for pasties or pork pies!
She says I'm obsessive about money, just 'cos I log onto our bank every day and hate spending money on anything other than food.
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>>I never carry money - that's what my personal assistant does.<<
Same here Roge, I never carry a mobile bone either, in fact what I stated (earlier) that I had in my pocket,
is all I ever have (hehe!)
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I never carry money - that's what my personal assistant does.
I think you might have it the wrong way round there Roger.
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I'm very careful about what's in my pockets these days. Lesson learned about 20 years ago. I used to fly to Italy pretty regularly at that time often on a Sunday evening. This one Sunday I'd been clay pigeon shooting and lost track of time. Suddenly realised I needed to be at Heathrow urgently, didn't have time to change out of my shooting gear, grabbed my overnight bag and zoomed off to the airport.
They don't like you going through security with shotgun cartridges in your pocket...In fact they don't like it at all.
:-(
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Handkerchief
Comb
Honda key and plipper
Gas lighter (used frequently for lighting Lidl weedburner)
Wedge of cardboard that fell out of one of the shutter catches last week
Ring with house, garage and letterbox keys
Ancient apple core stem
36 centimes
Wallet with cards, 20 euros, one euro-shaped blank to fit shopping trolleys, identity card, health service card, a UK £20 note (I've just discovered!), driving licence, picture of grandsons, business card from my pal I used to work with on the side years ago rigging TV aerials, card from bloke in Limoges who quoted for a new hood for the XJS, ancient Steve Bell 'If' cartoon from the Guardian about foxhunting, bit of odd paper with Jaguar paint code, ancient letter from a guy who was schizophrenic and also my snitch on the low life street, telling me (years later) that he was cured, had a girlfriend and was getting married - and ending with the words 'it's a funny old life, eh?'
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Wallet including £90 in notes and a fiver or so in coin in the purse.
Euros 360
Qatari Riyals 125
200 Moroccan Dirhams (I'm off there tomorrow)
Driving Licence ( card and paper)
Sports Club membership card.
National Trust Life Member Card.
RSPB member card.
A couple of my own business cards ( in English and Arabic)
Several business cards presented to me and various receipts for cash business expenses.
Scrap paper with scribbled phone numbers / reminders.
Credit Card Wallet
Two credit and two debit cards ( I won't disclose the credit limits but sufficient for wherever I happen to be in the world) + receipts from these.
Bus Pass .
BUPA breakdown membership card
GEM membership card
Plus three sets of keys (Home ,Car & Business)
Comb for the greying locks
Mobile phone
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I have paid my dues and I have found it very useful Roger - particularly if I want to go up to London.
Only thing is the photo makes me look like an escapee from prison....
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Just over £2 in coins, left over from what I was given by Mrs F to pay for the chips and curry sauce from the local chippy last night. I'm hoping she's forgotten I've still got it...
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At the moment I read the OP, only my passport, which I brought to work to scan for a visa application.
Some amazing cargo manifests here; is this what you lot typically have on when you sit down at your computer?
}:---)
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Nothing.
Like Vxfan - My the contents of my pockets (Which normally consist of Man Wallet, Phone, Keys <£5 in change) get dumped on the computer desk upstairs.
Last edited by: Redviper on Fri 4 Nov 11 at 12:30
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>> Nothing, Like Vxfan
Must be a Vauxhall thing.
Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 4 Nov 11 at 13:01
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>> Must be a Vauxhall thing.
Too skint from fixing 'em?
:-)
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>> Too skint from fixing 'em?
Nah, you're confusing that with Merc owners.
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>> Too skint from fixing 'em?
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> :-)
i clicked on "helpful" on that one - I selected the wrong post - I get the humour though :-)
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pruning knife and six inch nail
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Keys (car and flat).
Phone.
Wallet.
^^ Which contains...
Driving licence
Visa credit card (limit £6500)
American Express credit card (ironically, for the airmiles... - limit £10k)
Visa debit card
BALPA membership card
Manchester Climbing Club membership card
Costa Coffee card
Caffeè Nero card
Donor card
2 x £5
5 x £10
1 x €10
1 x 100NOK.
Miscellaneous receipts (now in bin).
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Surely I'm not the only one who finds it just a teensy weensy bit pretentious to post the limit on your credit cards?:)
Pat
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>> Surely I'm not the only one who finds it just a teensy weensy bit pretentious
>> to post the limit on your credit cards?:)
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>> Pat
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No, your not
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3 X pound coins and a couple of 50p's for the bridge toll
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I take it the limit on your cards is 15 bob?
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15 bob or 15 grand, it's certainly not something I feel the need to post on a public forum.
The availability of a credit limit is only any use if you have the ability to pay it off.....most of us would be hard pressed to pay off ALL the available credit we have, myself included.
So, in effect, it's just a bit of willy waving:).......again *sigh*
Pat
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>> 15 bob or 15 grand, it's certainly not something I feel the need to post
>> on a public forum.
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>> The availability of a credit limit is only any use if you have the ability
>> to pay it off.....most of us would be hard pressed to pay off ALL the
>> available credit we have, myself included.
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>> So, in effect, it's just a bit of willy waving:).......again *sigh*
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>> Pat
We are men, we like to willy wave, its what we do!
Could I pay the monthly bills if I maxed out my cards? of course
Not. It would break me.
Edit, I was hoping it would bring out the pious "I dont have cards, refuse to sanction debt" brigade. Believe me, if you are stuck abroad with an emergency to handle a good credit card limit is a godsend.
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 4 Nov 11 at 17:15
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Z, I know about men and willy waving.
In my job, for the first 20 years, I used to have to use the mens loos and showers......most of the ones I saw certainly weren't worthy of waiving either!
Pat
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Cold in outside bogs mind.
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I was able to pee OVER the wall in the wee up the wall contest.
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Don't waste it - remember the compost bin
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He'd never make it over the top of that:)
Pat
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the reason women have no sense of distance and cant park is because men tell them they have 7 inches
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 4 Nov 11 at 17:19
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AAh Ha, that's why I still can't park then:)
Pat
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I love the graffiti in the mens loos, it's far higher standard than in the Ladies.
Never needed to take a copy of the Sun in with me in those days!
Pat
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I used to be able to parallel park my Mondeo estate on the mirrors no bother with the barest minimum of space in front or behind. I find I can do the same with the Merc estate. With the Qashqai though I was like Reginald Molehusband despite it being a much smaller car with very good visibility.
( Do hope Rob doesn't mind the mega-drift here but it would seem he's out putting summer/winter/autumn tyres on or something so he won't notice )
Wonder why? Overhangs maybe? Never really bonded with that car. Wife loves her's though.
( If he is lurking I suppose we could go on to what's in our door pockets...)
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I still can't park a car even after 2 years of not driving a lorry, and it frustrates me.
I jumped into an artic the other day and backed it in between two trailers in limited space inch perfect after two years of NOT driving one.
It's a radar thing, I think, as soon as I sit in the lorry seat I know instictively where the back corners, front corners and overhang is/are.
The mirrors on cars are absolute crap and there is no vision where you need it, certainly I need a kerbside mirror.
I drove all round a hospital car park this morning to find a space I could drive through so I could pull out again without reversing!
Pay
Last edited by: pda on Fri 4 Nov 11 at 18:04
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Weird eh? But I do know what you mean.
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>>The mirrors on cars are absolute crap and there is no vision where you need it, certainly I need a kerbside mirror.<<
+1
And why do they make back windows so small now and C pillars so darn wide?
A few years ago I took a Bentley Continental R on a test drive (not the titchy VW one) and when we got back to the guy's house I backed it round a dog-leg into his drive with no problem at all, although it was completely unfamiliar and nearly 18ft long. Because it had excellent visibility in every direction is why.
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I only posted because Z did. Didn't want him thinking up north we cannot get credit if we wanted it. :-)
The other point I thought would get raised is how crazy credit limits are. No wonder people (and countries) get into so much debt.
If I spent to the limit I couldn't pay it back anytime soon. I'd get shot except it might be handy if our plan to buy somewhere (which seriously is/was Greece!) comes off.
Every now and then I get either a letter or phone call telling me I have a zero % balance transfer option. You tell them you have no debt so they tell you they can put the money in your bank account! There might be many people who do just that! And down the line they end up in trouble.
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>> our plan to buy somewhere (which seriously is/was Greece!)
All of it? ;)
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Mobile, £3.77 in change, a couple of notes, debit card, lighter, 20 JPS, keys.
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Wallet, about 6 quid in change, phone, very snotty handkerchief.
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£2 coin 1no.
£1 coin 2no.
20p 3no.
10p 2no.
5p 1no.
M10 washer (thin) 1no.
PZ2 screwdriver bits...................2no.
yucky hanky................1no.
van keys.
customer keys x 3no.
Sorry, bit light tonight. Sometimes worse than a Boy Scout!!
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Zippo lighter (v. worn, about 30 years old)
small swiss army knife (v. new, lost my old one a couple of weeks ago)
£1 coin
2x 50p coins
packet of paper hankies
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trouser pockets - tissues (clean).
Jacket pockets - too much clutter to mention, and a few essentials: wallet, glasses, loose change.
edit - mobile phone in jacket pocket
Last edited by: AnotherJohnH on Mon 7 Nov 11 at 16:24
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Don't have any pockets today....
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Pickpockets are getting worse eh?
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how is your manbag bobby? bought that radley one yet?
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Me manbag????
Do Clark's do one??
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What's in your pockets...? - -
