In 1964, when I was 14 years old, I joined the Cable factory NKF work, I got my salary in a pay bag every week. On Friday (the five-day working week was introduced in 1961) you went in a long line along the table with a suitcase with the pay bags.

When I returned home, I handed over my salary to my mother She divided the money into the various compartments of a cash box: so much for rent, so much for gas and light, and pocket money for me. I earned 40 guilders a week and got 10 guilders of pocket money.

There was also a paycheck in that money bag. It was literally a paper strip, which stated in various boxes the amounts of taxes and premiums were withheld from wages. With the increasing use of bank and giro accounts over the years, the method of payment gradually fell into disuse. I had to open an account with the Postbank where the salary was paid. A number of colleagues had great difficulty with this, because before the pay bag was given to mother, the woman, a hold was put in it. Unfortunately, with the depreciation that fell on the bus, mothers could know exactly what husband sweet really deserved.

You can't imagine it now. The money went from the bank to the factory and from the factory to the cafe. Opposite the exit of the factory, there was often also a café, owned by the manufacturer. Often wages were paid out in these bars, so that part of the money was immediately spent on beer or gin, which then ended up in the pockets of the manufacturers.

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