Dismantling the cooker and finding a handful of spare bits on remantling.
Crating white goods.
MFO boxes (never issued the screws though).
Saucepans (still got ours when they were all sold off in the early eighties).
The mythical tale of a couple of Infantrymen who had constructed a train set that went through the walls/doors of their flats.
The equally mythical tale of the dog being strung up on the barrier at the level crossing.
4DM to the £.
Yellow handbags.
Fridges issued in BAOR but not in UK.
Peat fuelled fires in NI.
Fooling everyone into thinking you weren't a squaddie by the clever trick of putting in a civvie jacket over your uniform.
Carpets that never reached the walls.