h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was just doing a purge on the rubbish in my wallet and found I have a sports club membership card that expired in 1996, a business card for the Peace Hotel (Shanghai - nearly exactly the other side of the world from me) and a Aer Lingus tab loyalty card (they stopped the scheme altogether a couple of years back)

So - what strange things lurk in your wallet?

Up to 2000, I still had my original ATM card which I got in 1983. At 17 years old, it was nearly as old as some of the people working in the bank. But unfortunately, it stopped working then and they replaced it.

I've got library cards that must be well out of date for Suffolk Librarys, Cambridge uni library, manchester Victoria university, Anglia university, a 'permision' card for the periodicals library at cambridge, and a photocopier card which to my knowledge probably has like ten quid credit on it, and which I can't use anymore for the photocopier machien at Cambridge Uni periodicals library strange thinking about it, I've not even got a valid library card anymore for anywhere Oh and looking at the balance of 'in use' and the 'out of use' cards, on top of thse mentioned, I have a current credit card, and bank 'service card/switch car', and a store card that was only ever used once in 1999 on the 8 th December

A card from the Column Bar in Warsaw (lovely cocktails )

...and various ones from Oz, including Red Eye Records in Sydney (where I bought RF a signed Powderfinger CD), and Punch Lane wine Bar in Melbn, makers of great steaks.

A card for an account with about 37p in it - oh the joys of being a student!

I have a Bell Canada phone card with about $4 credit on it.

Not that unusual I know, though I am at least 3,000 miles away from a phonebox that will take the thing.

*rummages through all the receipts and other rubbish*

I still have an expired learner-driver's licence that I got on April Fools' Day 1999. I really must learn to drive, one of these days. There's also my Student ID cards, which expired in 1990, and a business card from a third-rate nightclub in Cuenca, Ecuador.

(Incidentally, I *also* have a card from Red Eye Records...)

Ivan.

I had a couple of clear outs over the past year, once when my wallet went through the washing machine and once when I replaced it with a new one, so I have nothing especially old and weird. Oldest will be my NI card. As for weirdest, it's probably my supply teaching ID card, given that I did half a day ever and that was over a year ago.

I still have my copier card from when I was at uni in London... it still has about 18 copy's worth of money on it, too. Pity.

Up until a recent clear out I had a loyalty card for a coffee shop in Singapore from five years ago (I was only one stamp from a freebie too!) and a ticket stub from going to see The Lion King when it first came out.

I believe I also had a Cubs v Astros ticket from 1994.

I have student cards from 1999-2000 and 2002-3, and a bus pass from Wellington in 1988-9, we now live in a city 400+ km away...