Well I only have 1 old passport so far, so I just keep it for nostalgia... I had others but my mum never kept them (They had some good stamps, including Malta pre-EU which would have been cool for me, but alas cannot cry over spilt milk)

I wish I had done stuff like that.

I kept crazy stuff from my trip to Canada at age 18 and the USA later. Till receipts for 7Up as you couldn't get it in the UK at the time. Plane tickets, train tickets. Air Canada 'seat reserved' card from my flight. Matchbooks and beermats from bars. Cardboard Fries holder from McDonalds. Big pizza box (helped to protect an LP I bought). Macy's paper bag from New York. Doobie Brothers ticket from the Montreal Forum.

In time it just became clutter. Scrapbook is a great idea.

Lol I keep everything from travels. I created a vancouver scrapbook as well when I went to NY and around Asia. Speaking of Macys, I took a few of the plastic gift cards (the ones at the till with no value on them) - i always like them. I even grabbed a Nordstrom one with Vancouver on it from here.

I kept old concert/gig ticket and some cinema tickets but I wish I had kept old maps of the local shopping centre to see how much it has changed throughout the years.

I kept old bus passes wheb I was at school and my NUS/student ID cards when I was uni.

Payslips though - I only have them from 2011/2012 onwards - I shredded all the old ones - thats where I thought I would get stuck with PR application as I thought they woukd want a 10 year work history regardless of where you worked - thank heavens they didn't.

I did keep all my old P45s and P60s as my mother said I needed to keep them

I have all my passports from the first UK one issued in 1957, to go to Austria and Yugoslavia.

OH has all of his

and we just handed all of daughter's to her when she was back here in July ........... her first one was issued in 1975, valid for 5 years. She was 10 months old when the photo was taken but it has all these wonderful stamps in it from our trip around the world in 1975/76, and her trip to the UK with her Dad in 1980.

They're all wonderful souvenirs from our years of travel.

I also collected all kinds of "souvenirs" from the travel, some inserted in the photo album for that trip, others in bags in drawers waiting to be "dealt with"

Never thought about keeping pay stubs, I dispose of them as soon as I get them, well back when they were paper, since 2008 or so every job I have had, you have to sign onto some website to obtain them or they have been emailed.


My first back in '96 would have been nice to keep, I do remember the pay though 5.15 per hour. Which was 90 cents above min. wage, then when they raised min. wage to 4.75, I got bumped to 5.50 or so. By end of '97 it was 5.15 and I think I was up to 6.00 or so, then went to the airline and got a huge 94 cent raise to 6.94/hr.....lol... All in USD$.

You have a long way to go to get to OAS/CPP qualifying age

I wonder at age 65 if you'll still have all the important document from when you were 16 or 18 years of age?

Likely though you'd be living in Europe, so it won't matter

I'll probably keep it, never know when it may come in handy. My mum's childhood passports with Malta stamps in them did for getting Maltese citizenship, had to prove she spent 6 years of her life abroad in order to simply be recognised as a Maltese from birth, if she hadn't, we'd have had to done it the long way "registration". My childhood passports may come in handy for a similar purpose for my own children if I have any, never know.

Yep I probably won't live here the 10 years required after age 18 to qualify for OAS anyways. But I assume i'll be able to take out what i've paid into CPP already from working, as even now as a part timer it gets taken off my pay.