An ice cream scooper from the 1940’s with a mechanical scoop releaser and a bread knife from the 80’s, both random bits that were passed down the family. Nothing special, just very well made tools. Also a Hala desk lamp circa 1950.
My aunt has a 40’s era sunbeam stand mixer that works perfectly… just needs a new electrical chord. Most things are made to be replaced now. Those not so much.
Oh yeah I have a monstrous Vorwerk juicer that, judging from the design, is from the 1950s or 60s. Works perfectly.
I never had to fix anything for the over 20y I had it.
woolen poncho, bought for $20 at a craft fair in 2004
multiple dressers and bedframes
multiple vintage SciFi hardback books
wooden chairs salvaged from the University of Chicago Harper Library
homemade quilts
Soccer jersey from 2004
duct tape wallet assembled in 2003
cardboard box for Arby's curly fries, collected from a dumpster in 2002 to pack favorite Lego builds for storage in the summer before going to college, plus the Legos themselves
...huh. I'm genuinely surprised at how many things in my home aren't twenty years old.
It’s wild to me that some people have space for a grand piano in their house! I don’t think it would fit in any room we have. Heck, it wouldn’t even fit through the door to get it inside in the first place.
Clay bowl I made in high school. It's where pocket coins accumulate until I dump them into the machine at the bank that puts them back into my account.
I've an old high end set up from probably the 80s or 90s but haven't gotten it to work with these stupid 3.5 mm jacks yet. I bought an adapter but it doesn't work right because everything is defective now. I'm using a little bluetooth speaker like an asshole while I have a high end stereo system going unused here.
Damn straight. Still rocking the Whirlpool dishwasher that came with the house in 1992. Unfortunately the Whirlpool oven range that came with the house is barely functional. The oven still works, but I can't get the pilots to ignite on the stovetop. The Whirlpool dryer still works effectively, though it could be better.
Currently remodeling my house, so I'm definitely planning to upgrade to a Whirlpool washer-dryer combo, and I'll likely get a Whirlpool dual-fuel oven range. And if push comes to shove, I might get a new Whirlpool dishwasher.
I mean, unless Whirlpool's products were hit with the enshittification stick...
I mean, unless Whirlpool's products were hit with the enshittification stick...
do I have bad news for you.
do your due diligence and read bad reviews for any models you're looking at buying. no company will purchase bad reviews and you can clearly tell if the reviewer is an absolute walnut that couldn't pour piss from a boot.
usually I'll find a model that has bad reviews from a bunch of buffoons then check out the good reviews from multiple locations, the more obscure the source the better. bestbuy.com? no thanks. applianceguyaskingwhy.com? that's a winner.
Most of my audio gear. Receivers, turntable, eq, speakers....
If you want to build yourself a nice "vintage" sound system, look for things made before 1980ish. pretty much everything built before that was made to last and can always be repair. After that, they started to deliberately make things that would break within a couple of years so that isn't meant to be repaired.
Thanks to a particular YouTube personality I imported a toaster from the US and converted it to run on 230v. My modifications aside, it's from the late 1950s and still works perfectly.
An ebow (electromagnetic bow) that I bought used from some estate sale. It has a cassette tape in the box presumably containing instructions for how to play it and demos of it being used.
I don't use it regularly as I mostly play bass and the spacings on its grooves are made with standard guitar in mind so it's rather difficult to play with a bass consistently. but it is incredibly cool.
My alarm clock. It's probably 30 years old now. It projects the time onto the ceiling, which is amazing when you wake up in the morning and don't know if you over or under slept. I don't use the alarm, but the ceiling clock is invaluable.
I liked the idea of those, but it would have been an unreadable blur until I got glasses on and the one on my nightstand was close enough to read easily without them.
Actual answer will be one wooden stool and one round wooden chair made around the 80s. It came from a very old house my sister recently bought that the occupant left untouched since 2008, based on the technology and the calendar. So when my sister wanted to renovate the whole house she asked us to just pick anything that we wanted as everything will be tossed, so i grabbed a wooden chair and stool, give it a little sanding, oil it up with tung oil, and been using it ever since. They also have this grandfather clock that would look great if refurbished, but i don't really have much time to refurb anything else. Wooden furniture is awesome.
Edit: shoutout to my mom's sewing machine + table that she have since she married my dad. You know those with giant crank wheel and you have to rock your feet forth and back to operate the machine? Those. She upgraded the machine to electric in the 90s and still use it today, exact same build.
A Kitchenaid stand mixer that is 48 years old and still works perfectly, but the most ridiculous old item is a 35 year old Panasonic boom box with an added BT adapter that's still in regular use.
A wall clock that was gifted to my grandparents on their marriage anniversary, and I've been fighting everyone in the house to keep it.
That clock is close to 40 years old, and still is functional. It's a simple clock made in Germany. No protective glass or a seconds hand. Just a plain clock that has turn brown over time. Everyone in my home thinks it's trash. I think it's an engineering marvel.
I thought you meant you were competing over who gets to be the owner, but no. Keep fighting that good fight! Perhaps inviting your household to its 40th birthday will win hearts and minds.
There's one reason to buy new stuff, that being you don't have that stuff. When I bought my house, I moved in with like two folding chairs and a card table. I eventually bought stuff, and that stuff is all 10-12 years old now. Unfortunately, my kids have murdered my poor Interior Define couch (that I bought before they existed), and so a new couch will come eventually.
Not having furniture is a reason to buy used/vintage/antique stuff, not new. New furniture is almost always either inferior quality or exorbitantly expensive. (Some things from IKEA, such as the Poäng chair, are exceptions, but not many.)
I agree for some furniture, but I'm not buying used couches. I see couches roadside with a "free" sign from time to time, and I just shudder thinking about what's happened on that couch.
That, I agree with! Also, upholstered stuff in general can be risky because of bedbugs.
Still, used upholstered furniture from an actual store (or gifted from someone you actually know) is probably safer than curb stuff. I would only take hard-surface furniture from the curb.
I have a leather belt from the Gap circa 2002 that I've worn most days during that time. It still looks great. I've tried to find a similar one for years, but every belt I've found seems to be made with cheaper materials that aren't going to last
The kitchen TV, one of the first flat-screen TVs, a Sharp with 720p resolution, I think 21 inches. It's sad to think that since then, four different TVs have been in my living room.
I have a 100+ year old singer I sometimes still use. The old machines are very sturdy and can punch through leather and canvas. It was my great grandmothers, then aunts, now mine.
Our couches are somewhere around 6th hand, probably more. The two single seaters are still going strong, but the two seater recently had its back go out. I'm going to try to fix it, but it probably won't last.
I still have a stuffed animal from when I was a kid and a couple of plates from when I lived with my parents. I had to drop a lot of things I wanted to keep, I didn't because they were utterly infested and I didn't have the spoons to try and clean it out for when I moved out.
The steak knives (our cutlery in general is somewhat new, but the steak knives are ~30 years old)
I'm sure I have misc cables older than 20 years. Network, serial, IEC, etc. And yes, I use serial cables often.
Our kitchen stove is around 20 y.o., but the kitchen is next up on the renovation agenda, so it won't be that much longer
Does my GF count?
I have some really old clothes that I still wear. One example is the Soilwork band shirt, bought at a concert when they were touring for their newest album "Natural Born Chaos"
A guitar pedal with a 60s style distortion (the pedal is from the 90s, though)
We live in an old house, so many of the lamps are pretty old too.
The can opener might be close to 40 years old, still works as expected.
I still use a set square I have had since high school.
Then there's plenty of stuff I use that is much much older but I bought them more recently, like the sewing machine and my typewriters.
My house was built in 1999, my furnace in the attic is original. 27 years old and going strong. True every year I need to blow it to get it up and running, but compared to the alternative I'll take it!
In a similar vein, the gas fireplace is also original and also going strong.
All my vehicles. Slide rules. Drafting table & drafting equipment. Fountain pens. Typewriters. Tanker desks. Cutlery, pots, pans, the fancy dishes (Thomas Rosenthal Arcta, close to 60yo), a fair number of tools, a few pieces of furniture. A large number of hardcover books. And likely a whole bunch of stuff I have forgotten is that old.
I have swiss army knife, it's 19 years old so not quite 20, i use it everyday. I take it on every longer journey and there's virtually no situation where it doesn't help in some way... even if it's the silly toothpick, I'm always happy to have it.
My tabletop radio was made in 1958, it's still in perfect working order.
My entire living room audio setup is from the early 1970's.
Our kitchen has a Kenwood mixer/multi-apparatus from 1982, I changed the motor grease ~10 years ago and it works like new. Most of our kitchenware is inherited and at least 50 years old.
My oldest guitar is from 1950's and the newest maybe late 1990's.
Now that I've come to think of it, most part of the things I own and actively use actually predate the 1990's.
My electric stove/oven has been in my apartment since 1993, it's getting replaced on Thursday. When I moved in 10 years ago they asked if I wanted to replace it but didn't see a reason to if it still worked fine, it had a good run and I've cooked so much on it but it has gotten real bad lately so sadly it has to go. Excited to get a glass top one (not induction) with 4 cooking zones, my old one only has 3.
I have a thing for old computers, so..
My C64, VIC-20, plus/4, A600, A1200, NES, Sega master system, PowerBook G4. I can't fit all on my desk at once, so three are in storage, but I rotate.
Also, my graphing calculator. I bought it new in 2000. I think they haven't changed much, as there's still just a handful of models approved for state exams. I took a skipper course five years ago, and that's the one I brought.
Pretty sure it was a wedding present that my parents got a few years before I came along, so it's over 50 years old at this point. It didn't get any use for the first 30 years of its existence, but I've had it for longer than 20, so it counts either way.
Herman Miller Aeron Chair. Have had it for at least 25 years and besides a scuff or two on the arms, it’s in perfect shape. I work from home and am sitting on it all day every day, so it definitely has held up.
I bought one of these a few years ago for $200. Imagine my surprise when I got it home and was cleaning it only to find a label on the bottom that it also was well over 20 years old. Needed the cushion behind the thighs replaced and it was good as new.
A Honda Transalp from 1999. I still ride it to work. Throw in some oil, keep the battery fresh and she’ll never let you down. I’ve had the seat reupholstered and of course the usual wear items replaced (done most of that myself) and it just keeps going. I asked a mechanic to do the valve clearance check at 50.000km and he didn’t need to touch anything.
Fantastic machine, I’m gonna ride it until the wheels fall off.
I have an analog multimeter that still does the trick. It isn't the most precise tool, but it tells me if my batteries are flat and when I have a short on a component. Great tool, probably 50 years old now and I wouldn't touch a high voltage circuit with it but it does what I need it to do.
I use a really ancient analog hi-pot tester at work, which is basically a high potential insulation stress test. The hi-pot formula under UL is operating voltage x 2.25 + 2000v. It will put up to 40kV through a circuit at milli or micro amps to see if there is any leakage in the conductors through open air. This goes for bare conductors like busbars as well as insulated ones like wire, measuring their terminations or cracks in the insulation. It tests phase to phase and phase to ground to see if the electricity will jump thru air or over an insulated material, which is where the words strike and creep come from which have their own formulas of what is acceptable and what isn't for manufacturing and installation. There's a little more room for creep obviously.
All that is to say, there's plenty of fancy new digital hi-pot testers. We rented one for a project that was going on a marine grade system. They'll run a test at whatever your parameters you type in and save it all to a flash drive. We worked for 8 hours to set up all of our testing jumpers and ran a test for 1 second on the control wiring for it to say PASS then we put it all back together.
The fancy one saves the leakage current values to the drive. Our analog one will only display it on an analog dial and we write it down. This is ok for testing AC (and this is where things start to get a little over my head), something about the RMS nature of AC causes more leakage current during the test, so generally we have a leakage value of let's say 1 milliamp. DC will generally only make microamps of current when we run the test. Try recording any kind of value when you look at the dial and it looks like it doesn't even move past zero haha.
We basically told the customer that we have a pass/fail tester and can't accurately produce any type of value for leakage on DC unless we rented or purchased another machine. But for 9 out of 10 times, it's fine that's all anyone cares about anyway. I've fucked up and left a plate somewhere it shouldn't have been and believe me you'll know when this thing fails lol. It sent 11kV thru a tiny circuit board, whoops
For those who don't know Realistic is an old Radio Shack brand. Because their users were tech savvy they came with full repair manuals detailing schematics, parts lists, assembly diagrams, etc...
This all makes it extremely easy to repair. I recently replaced the capacitors after it became apparent the direct drive was unstable. There was no question what I needed to order or where exactly it needed to go.
All the large kitchen appliances came with this place. I'm sure the oven is over 20 years old and maybe also the dishwasher. When I got here the dishwasher didn't work and it took me ages to determine the main pump had rusted solid. An eBay replacement later and it's been working for 6 years.
Cuisinart Food Processor. Use it all the time. Got it as a gift from my mom in college. Just harvested a ton of basil last night and made "pesto pucks" to freeze to use over the winter.
I have a cheese shredder that is from before the 1980s. I'm not sure what its actual age is. It looks and feels like something from the Gold Rush days. It's metal, it's got that old timey metal look to it (not polished), it has a wooden handle, and it basically spins a circular shredder with a hand crank. It's probably from the 1950s. You can't put a lot of cheese in it, but it works well.
Our kitchen table is over 20 years old, but we don't use it as a kitchen table. Mostly it just collects junk. We eat in front of the TV like a lot of modern couples.
I recently found a hat I got 30 years ago and still have. I don't wear hats though, so it's been mostly unused.
I think the PS3 is 20 Years old. If not 20 then it should be there this year. I use it almost daily for gaming. It’s primarily my Minecraft, Uncharted, and LBP Machine though
It's this November. But thats a good path since all my systems before that are older like my original xbox, ps2, ps1, snes, nes, genesis, psp, nintendo ds, game boy advance, intelivision, nintendo 64, gamecube, and Dreamcast. And then any games I have for them all.
Kitchen: My stove us 30+ years old. Loads of kitchen gadgets, too. The older knife set my wife uses (she is too afraid to use mine), but mine might touch the 20 years, too.
Living room: The table is 30+, as well as the side table I made.
Basement: The shelves I built 30ish years ago - and they will probably last longest, as they are welded from steel.
If I had to pick one, it’s my Gameboy. I use that the most.
There’s also: probably half of my books, most of my cameras, my old consoles, my sewing machine, and there’s probably more stuff. I’m kind of obsessed with old things.
Knitting stuff fron the 50s, glassware from the 60s, and probably a load of crockery/kitchen stuff that is at least 20 years old. My speakers and amps are 80s (although they have new cones) and guitar stuff from around the millennium.
NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, Wii, a cuckoo clock, that kind of cat clock with the eyes and tail that go side to side, a coffee grinder with the handle, my husband.
My spouse and I both have mid century 5 drawer tanker desks. I'm sitting at it to type this.
Attached to my monitor stand is the modified remains of an 80's gravity lamp. The base broke but the springs are good and it makes a great spotlight.
Our server and tv are built into the remains of an early 80's Zenith console TV. The screen was dead so we cut out space behind the decorative front pannel for a 32in flat screen and cut down the tower to work as scaffolding for the computer parts. Tossed a sound bar in and now it booms like a theater. You don't even notice the 2in of screen that's losts on the ends.
Our stove is a Montgomery Ward from the late 70s. It's an absolute marvel to use. The clock is broken so I'm planning to dismantle that area to put controls for a vent fan I want to install in the attached shelf.
Our fridge is modern but the second I find myself a '64 GE Americana I'm gutting it to modetnize that masterpiece. Unless I find the tools for metal fab first...
My Samsung microwave is from the mid 70's. It doesn't have a turn table but it heats food better than any modern box and has a fraction of the radio leak that my Walmart one had.
I actually don't, but it's nowhere near as impressive as you might assume lol
We picked the TV up on marketplace. Unscrewed everything that was originally inside it and disposed of that stuff. I took the plastic faux wood decor off, laid the TV over the hole where the screen was, traced it with sharpie, and cut it with a sawzaw. Now the TV is held in place by the faux wood frame on the front and nylon straps on the back.
As for the server, I took an old tower and drilled out all the rivets until all the exterior pieces were off, then I used some the loose screws from the TV guts to anchor it too the inside of the TV box.
We have little strips of fabric covered posterboard hiding the ugly areas at the top and bottom of the screen and if I ever get around to it I'll disable the TV and wrap a full sheet if fabric around the front frame so that it transitions a little better.
Part of the original large corner desk I bought after graduating college. It was like 8' in both directions from the corner. I finally switched to a motorized rectangle desk, but I kept one side of the old desk for it's hutch.
The thing is made of cheap mdf, but it's still doing it's job.
French Press. It was my grandmother's, kept it after she died.
The brand, Melior, was bought by Bodum in 1991, and all French Press production went under the Bodum brand (the old Melior model became what is now known as the "Chambord" line), so it is at least 35 years old, possibly older.
I contacted Bodum to know if they could give me an approximate age, but they couldn't (or didn't want to bother searching). All I know it is a version with Pyrex glass, which may help a knowledgeable person to more precisely date it, but I kinda put my curiosity on pause for the time being.
Other than that, some of my grandfather's vinyls are quite old too (at least one of them is from the 80's), and I got some 20+ yo cassettes, some old mixtapes (back when mixtapes where actual tapes 😆).
I have an old Caban which is probably at least 40 years old (was my grandfather's, once again).
Oh, and some kitchen tools made in West Germany 😆.
The tube TV in my bedroom. My bed and the Sears mattress on it. Most of our furniture, save the kitchen table and one of our bookshelves. Our SNES & N64.
I have clothes that are over 20 years old that I keep thinking I might lose with weight to for into again.
My 23 year old pickup just kicked the bucket this spring.
My GE water heater has a metal plate on it stating it meets all the new 1945 safety regulations.
My house was built in 1875, according to the local historical society, or 1912 according to the county. I suspect the difference is that in 1875 you didn't need to file building permits with the county, but by the time they put the addition on in 1912 you did.
My Bachelor's Degree is over 20 years old, but I've never used that.
yeah, in fact the previous owner told me when he looked at the house in 1980 he saw that water heater and figured it would go out any day so he bought a brand new and rolled it in with his home loan and left in the barn for when it was needed. The "brand new" water heater has rusted all the way through without ever having been used.
Although it is still not around we were given a toaster for our wedding that was given to a couple for their wedding back in the forties. We had it for several years until one of our friends decided to cook a bagel in it and melted the cord. I ended up taking it apart and replaced the cord. We had it another several years until it was lost in a move. I like to think it is somewhere still toasting 80 years later.
In retrospect I wish I had gotten a newer/smaller piano… that thing weighs as much as a small car and it’s volume is more appropriate for a concert hall than a house.
We got it from a piano restoration company that sold it to us for just the cost of moving it because they have too many ancient uprights that no one wants.
I have a moka pot from my dad that I don't use super frequently (every once in a while I try to learn how to do cuban-style espresso, otherwise I just drink drio coffee), but it's 30-40 years old.
Basically all of our furniture except a couch and the beds.
A number of tools, many of which I don't know the actual age of.
A couple sewing machines although I guess those are tools too.
The one I'll pick to share is my desk. It was a teachers desk and the drawers are full of signatures from kids in the classes. No date but the desk had the top restored by a guy I knew over 20 years ago. It was given to me a few years later and I've used it ever since.
Was totally going to say this, or any part of my body really. My back, my knee. We are officially old this year. But it's felt that way for a decade at least.
I didn't think neurons got replaced. Cartilage and bone don't either I believe. I would be interested to know more if what you are saying is actually true.
My Panasonic microwave is 22, still going strong. Cast iron cookware and stainless pots i got from my mum (50+). Sunbeam hand mixer and Braun immersion blender from the 80s. Lots of glassware. Fridge, stove, washer, dryer.
2 steel desks from the 40s - they’re in the basement now, but the drawers glide like new.
No plans to replace anything unless it breaks. New stuff isn’t made well.
We have had a Potato masher since the 80s. It has been with us in over 5 house moves. The paint on the handle has been slowly wearing out with each use but we still use it twice a week!
I just replaced the bearings and seals on a Maytag Neptune washing machine that’s from 2004. The bearing was getting noisy during spin cycles and the front seal had a small tear that could leak when running small loads.
After replacing a similar aged dishwasher with a newer model 7 years ago, that has needed constant repair since, I’m not getting rid of this washer until something catastrophic fails on it. It’s built like a tank compared to current shit.
My cast iron pan is from the 40's, made in Ontario somewhere... I forget the name of the company rn. [Findlay I thk]
A carving knife and steel that was probably made before the 2000's. Antler handles, no markings. Looks hand made honestly, like someone bought it at a farmers market.
Shout out to my 16-17 y/o ikea kitchen knife. Cost me ~$16. Use it almost everyday. No moving parts, but I mean it just shows people how much I have it together. >..>
Oh, the fucking dank-ass mattress that came with my rental is probably old enough. Might as well be a king size sheet of twenty year old wet plywood with mysterious stains.
*Shout out to my 15 y/o, 1080p pro-scan monitor. Still works like new.
Quite a bit of our kitchen stuff: Braun stick blender from the 1980s, Cuisinart from the early 1990s, my mother's osterizer and electric frying pan from who knows when. I'm sure there are more. Until very recently, my husband had his coffee maker from since he started uni in 1979. Had 2 or 3 replacement carafs but it still brewed a pot until recently. My sewing machine is from the 1980s. A few outdoor and garage tools have made it a long time as well. The hedge trimmer has be 40+ yo. Ditto for the table saw. The oldest is a waffle maker from the 1940s. We have a couple Texas Instrument calcs from the 80s. Makes one sad when you realize how long those items keep working versus most things today that are toast after a year or two.
Pots and pans aren’t exciting, but they’re over 20. Same with utensils. Furnishings. The Wii. One of our cars. Plenty of hand and garden tools.
It takes a bit to have things that last. You move around so much when you’re younger, things are temporary. Cheap furniture or other items is are left for roommates or sold, parents get rid of stuff left behind. You can’t always afford quality stuff, much less haul it wherever you go for the next job or whatever.
So 2006. Lots. Washer im sure. This single strap backpack I have. Lots of clothes. Some of my dogs toys are hand me downs from my last dog. Don't think I have any electronics that have made it. Although I gave my dvd player to my brother a few years back. There has to be others as we don't get rid of things unless they no longer function. Oh. Actually a but load of basic tools.
The house itself is going on 80 (or might have passed it already; I have conflicting information on when it was built).
Half of my furniture is antique, with one large built-in cabinet having been salvaged from a house even older than mine.
I have no idea how old my gas range is, but I got it out of my in-laws' house a decade and a half ago and they'd had it for years before that.
My silverware is a hand-me-down from my mom, and is probably older than I am.
My newest car (out of too many) is a 2007 model, I think, which means it might've been built in 2006. Most of the others are from the '90s.
My previous daily-driver bike (which remains my backup after getting a cargo e-bike) is from circa 1991. Of my family's dozen+ bikes, there are only three that I know for a fact are less than 20 years old.
A surprising amount of stuff I have was found on the curb after other people threw it out, and is of indeterminate age.
Silverware would probably be the oldest, my wife's grandmother bought them in the early 1900s as antiques, and then some "modern" accessories that matched, now antiques themselves. They get used on special occasions mostly.
I have a slow cooker thats ~30yrs old, works great.
The DVD/VHS player with FireWire for minidv is also used while I convert old family videos to digital, and my old dv camcorder is now in my daughter's hands to try making movies with her friends.
I'm sure there's more, but thats off the top of my head.
Books, media (mostly games but some audi and video), some clothing, some tools, some kitchen stuff, my tractor, and plenty more. Used to be a lot of other stuff but lots of old furniture went when moving across the world. Many of the above-listed things are 30+ acually
I guess if "sometime look at" qualified as "still using", lots of photos and small things I inherited from family
My plush toys. I talk to them. I cuddle them. I have a spreadsheet with all information about them that I make up to create stories (name, gender, family, close friends, disabilities, personnality…).
A beautiful orange Cousances cast iron roasting pot from the 60s, used to be my great-grandmother's. I mainly use it to make vegan mac and cheese, or enormous batches of vegetable soup whenever I get a flu.
The oldest object in regular use however is an old dowry chest, a light wood painted black, that my other great grandma kept all her and her son's belongings in when they fled from the red army during WW2.
I keep some bulkier tools, a box with sandpaper, and a ton of bubble wrap in it lol
Let's see. Kitchen table is a solid wood thing from at least the 70s. The chairs in the dining room table are a set of 200 year old antiques I found on Craigslist. I have a vanity that was built by an old steamfitter in the 1920s.
In the workshop, there's all sorts of old stuff. My jointer is built like a tank and hails from Eisenhower administration. And then I have numerous hand planes that are over a century old.
I got an old can opener, a heuck cin o. 45223 that probably belonged to my grandfather before becoming a standard item in my moms silverware drawer. Works so much better than any modern can opener I have ever used. The best part is that my mom doesn't care if I take it with me if I can ever move out on my own. So I am set with a beautiful can opener that'll probably outlive me.
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About half of my books.
I've a bunch that are over a hundred years old.
Almost everything is more than 20 years old, build my house in 92
From the first EP?
in between sips of coke he told me...
That he thought we were selling out, laying down, sucking up to the man...
explain EP ?
Extended Play record.
Joke reference from a Tool song, Hooker with a Penis.
Anytime someone refers to '92 it's mandatory
OK ,strange people those murican guys,
Even without having built my house, I'm so old that many of my belongings are over 20y old, and have been in my possession for that long.
An ice cream scooper from the 1940’s with a mechanical scoop releaser and a bread knife from the 80’s, both random bits that were passed down the family. Nothing special, just very well made tools. Also a Hala desk lamp circa 1950.
My aunt has a 40’s era sunbeam stand mixer that works perfectly… just needs a new electrical chord. Most things are made to be replaced now. Those not so much.
My sister in law got my mil's KitchenAid stand mixer that my wife carved her brother's name into when she was a kid. Works like a champ.
Oh yeah I have a monstrous Vorwerk juicer that, judging from the design, is from the 1950s or 60s. Works perfectly.
I never had to fix anything for the over 20y I had it.
I'd say that is special
The bed that my father has built for my wife and me some 30 years ago. My father sleeps in his grave now. My wife and I still sleep in this bed.
The house itself: 1880
KitchenAid stand mixer
Marble base metal stand lamp
woolen poncho, bought for $20 at a craft fair in 2004
multiple dressers and bedframes
multiple vintage SciFi hardback books
wooden chairs salvaged from the University of Chicago Harper Library
homemade quilts
Soccer jersey from 2004
duct tape wallet assembled in 2003
cardboard box for Arby's curly fries, collected from a dumpster in 2002 to pack favorite Lego builds for storage in the summer before going to college, plus the Legos themselves
...huh. I'm genuinely surprised at how many things in my home aren't twenty years old.
Same here, it would be quicker to say what's newer than that. All the new shit broke so there's not that much left.
It’s wild to me that some people have space for a grand piano in their house! I don’t think it would fit in any room we have. Heck, it wouldn’t even fit through the door to get it inside in the first place.
The legs get dismantled and it's turned sideways to fit in.
Clay bowl I made in high school. It's where pocket coins accumulate until I dump them into the machine at the bank that puts them back into my account.
The amplifier of my parents' old stereo. Must be from the early 90's. Still going!
May your generational gold always grace your ears with good sounds.
I've an old high end set up from probably the 80s or 90s but haven't gotten it to work with these stupid 3.5 mm jacks yet. I bought an adapter but it doesn't work right because everything is defective now. I'm using a little bluetooth speaker like an asshole while I have a high end stereo system going unused here.
Whirlpool washer and dryer from the 80’s. They came with the house and they are INVINCIBILE.
Damn straight. Still rocking the Whirlpool dishwasher that came with the house in 1992. Unfortunately the Whirlpool oven range that came with the house is barely functional. The oven still works, but I can't get the pilots to ignite on the stovetop. The Whirlpool dryer still works effectively, though it could be better.
Currently remodeling my house, so I'm definitely planning to upgrade to a Whirlpool washer-dryer combo, and I'll likely get a Whirlpool dual-fuel oven range. And if push comes to shove, I might get a new Whirlpool dishwasher.
I mean, unless Whirlpool's products were hit with the enshittification stick...
do I have bad news for you.
do your due diligence and read bad reviews for any models you're looking at buying. no company will purchase bad reviews and you can clearly tell if the reviewer is an absolute walnut that couldn't pour piss from a boot.
usually I'll find a model that has bad reviews from a bunch of buffoons then check out the good reviews from multiple locations, the more obscure the source the better. bestbuy.com? no thanks. applianceguyaskingwhy.com? that's a winner.
my HP Printer / Scanner from 1998
Almost invaluable rn.
X10 to turn off/on a couple lights remotely. It uses radio waves so no bs "smart home" data mining app. This thing
Ah, x10… I can still hear the “chunk” of a switch flipping on.
Other users: *switches to wayland*
Meanwhile you:
My kid swipped my old x10 and uses it. I have a very old insteaon set up that I use.
X10? Holy hell there's a name I haven't heard in a while...
my super nintendo
Do you call it Chalmers?
Mine still has a yoshi sticker I wrote my name on when I was five.
My damn life.
Pretty sure most of my stuff is over 20 years old at this point. My razor is at least 60.
I have too many old razors.
My current razor is a feather asd2, less than a decade old.
Most of my audio gear. Receivers, turntable, eq, speakers....
If you want to build yourself a nice "vintage" sound system, look for things made before 1980ish. pretty much everything built before that was made to last and can always be repair. After that, they started to deliberately make things that would break within a couple of years so that isn't meant to be repaired.
WW2-era P-38 can opener.
I got a fred but I dont use it much.
lol @ "fucking ridiculous eating device"
I'm mildly irritated that none of the photos on Wikipedia show it folded.
Thanks to a particular YouTube personality I imported a toaster from the US and converted it to run on 230v. My modifications aside, it's from the late 1950s and still works perfectly.
I can't justify it because I rarely make toast, but I want one of those toasters anyway because of that video.
Me
Nice.
I drive cars from the '90s and early 2000s because I'm okay with EFI, but not with "telemetry" or weird proprietary "infotainment".
Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster
Toaster GOAT.
It's a sweet chrome and orange model.
Breadbox, colander, all the silverware, plates cups bowls.
Oh, house.
Lots of stuff; I'm old (enough) and frugal. A lot of my tools might be the oldest, from my faster and grandfather.
All of my musical instruments and a surprising number of tools. A lot of vinyl records. He'll I have computer thats 25 years old that I still turn on.
An ebow (electromagnetic bow) that I bought used from some estate sale. It has a cassette tape in the box presumably containing instructions for how to play it and demos of it being used.
I don't use it regularly as I mostly play bass and the spacings on its grooves are made with standard guitar in mind so it's rather difficult to play with a bass consistently. but it is incredibly cool.
(image not mine)
Didn't realize they were that old
1976 says Wikipedia! tho my model started being made in 1998
A Mosin bayonet. uh wait, I gotta go.
Tally-ho!!!
Good hunting
My alarm clock. It's probably 30 years old now. It projects the time onto the ceiling, which is amazing when you wake up in the morning and don't know if you over or under slept. I don't use the alarm, but the ceiling clock is invaluable.
I liked the idea of those, but it would have been an unreadable blur until I got glasses on and the one on my nightstand was close enough to read easily without them.
Guitar
The keyboard I bought for my first PC build. It's the Alchemy Elixir.
Tap water. It's at least 4 billion years old.
Actual answer will be one wooden stool and one round wooden chair made around the 80s. It came from a very old house my sister recently bought that the occupant left untouched since 2008, based on the technology and the calendar. So when my sister wanted to renovate the whole house she asked us to just pick anything that we wanted as everything will be tossed, so i grabbed a wooden chair and stool, give it a little sanding, oil it up with tung oil, and been using it ever since. They also have this grandfather clock that would look great if refurbished, but i don't really have much time to refurb anything else. Wooden furniture is awesome.
Edit: shoutout to my mom's sewing machine + table that she have since she married my dad. You know those with giant crank wheel and you have to rock your feet forth and back to operate the machine? Those. She upgraded the machine to electric in the 90s and still use it today, exact same build.
The quarks in my house are nearly 14 billion years old.
A Kitchenaid stand mixer that is 48 years old and still works perfectly, but the most ridiculous old item is a 35 year old Panasonic boom box with an added BT adapter that's still in regular use.
Coffee brewer. Desk. Have a 100(?) year old wooden couch that the dog likes to sleep on.
Penis.
A wall clock that was gifted to my grandparents on their marriage anniversary, and I've been fighting everyone in the house to keep it.
That clock is close to 40 years old, and still is functional. It's a simple clock made in Germany. No protective glass or a seconds hand. Just a plain clock that has turn brown over time. Everyone in my home thinks it's trash. I think it's an engineering marvel.
I thought you meant you were competing over who gets to be the owner, but no. Keep fighting that good fight! Perhaps inviting your household to its 40th birthday will win hearts and minds.
Most of it?
Particularly the furniture. New furniture is a waste. Aside from like, mattresses. Zero reason to buy new frames, tables, etc. None.
There's one reason to buy new stuff, that being you don't have that stuff. When I bought my house, I moved in with like two folding chairs and a card table. I eventually bought stuff, and that stuff is all 10-12 years old now. Unfortunately, my kids have murdered my poor Interior Define couch (that I bought before they existed), and so a new couch will come eventually.
Not having furniture is a reason to buy used/vintage/antique stuff, not new. New furniture is almost always either inferior quality or exorbitantly expensive. (Some things from IKEA, such as the Poäng chair, are exceptions, but not many.)
I agree for some furniture, but I'm not buying used couches. I see couches roadside with a "free" sign from time to time, and I just shudder thinking about what's happened on that couch.
That, I agree with! Also, upholstered stuff in general can be risky because of bedbugs.
Still, used upholstered furniture from an actual store (or gifted from someone you actually know) is probably safer than curb stuff. I would only take hard-surface furniture from the curb.
I have a leather belt from the Gap circa 2002 that I've worn most days during that time. It still looks great. I've tried to find a similar one for years, but every belt I've found seems to be made with cheaper materials that aren't going to last
So many things. The one that gets used the most is a laundry basket which still has the old orange "Spags" price sticker on it. I miss Spags...
Most of what I own. No point in replacing something when there's nothing wrong with it.
Especially since most of the stuff you will replace it (with) will break in 3-5 years.
Some of my kitchen knives, at least one is 40+ and others 20+, generally a lot of my kitchen utensils are quite old
Almost all my furniture, lights and light fittings, a lot of my cooking stuff, my car, a lot of my tools, and even some of my clothes
My marriage
The kitchen TV, one of the first flat-screen TVs, a Sharp with 720p resolution, I think 21 inches. It's sad to think that since then, four different TVs have been in my living room.
My first Costco purchase was 19 years ago, my Philips 47” LCD TV is still alove and kicking and has outlived 2 other TVs we have had in that time.
I have a 100+ year old singer I sometimes still use. The old machines are very sturdy and can punch through leather and canvas. It was my great grandmothers, then aunts, now mine.
That's really awesome! The history of the machine.
My audio system. It still sounds better than lots of new equipment in the same price category.
I used to have a 40+ year old cutting board.
I have a Kewl stainless steel hiking bottle.
1 small lamp I bought used at a fleamarket, I had to replace the socket.
Manfrotto tripod.
The house.
1 large Thermos.
1 brace n bit, bought used at a fleamarket.
A book called "The Passive Energy Book" by Edward Mazria 1979
A clip-on lamp whose shade I replaced with a tin can.
Our couches are somewhere around 6th hand, probably more. The two single seaters are still going strong, but the two seater recently had its back go out. I'm going to try to fix it, but it probably won't last.
I still have a stuffed animal from when I was a kid and a couple of plates from when I lived with my parents. I had to drop a lot of things I wanted to keep, I didn't because they were utterly infested and I didn't have the spoons to try and clean it out for when I moved out.
Craftsman multimeter(maybe 25 yrs). My uncle gave it to me. It's from the durable era of consumer electronics.
A lot of my books. Two harddrives in my server. My couch. My tables. My chairs. My bike. A computer case. A laptop.
Some are not just over 20, they're over 50 or in some cases over 100. In one case more than 300. I'll let you guess which would be which.
The laptop is 300+.
can it run doom?
Off the top of my head:
I wanted to say N64 but it's closer to 30. I still boot up my PS3 from time to time though
The PS3 was released in November 2006, so it's not quite 20 years old. Unless you have a prototype, I guess.
Turned 30 this year. Used to make coffee 1-2 times per day, every day since it was bought new in 1996.
They still sell them. They retail for AUD$1000.
Old Westinghouse vent fans/ heaters in the bathrooms. Things are easily 50 years old.
The dryer.
The can opener might be close to 40 years old, still works as expected.
I still use a set square I have had since high school.
Then there's plenty of stuff I use that is much much older but I bought them more recently, like the sewing machine and my typewriters.
A ton of old game controllers and handheld consoles!
I play a lot of retro games, and use adapters to connect them to my PC for that extra bit of authenticity in emulation
My house was built in 1999, my furnace in the attic is original. 27 years old and going strong. True every year I need to blow it to get it up and running, but compared to the alternative I'll take it!
In a similar vein, the gas fireplace is also original and also going strong.
My ICOM IC-7000. We take it out almost every weekend to a park and work some ham radio. Manufactured in 2006 making it 20 years old!
My turntable, about 30 years old. Had to replace the needle about 20 years ago, but it still works like a charm.
All my vehicles. Slide rules. Drafting table & drafting equipment. Fountain pens. Typewriters. Tanker desks. Cutlery, pots, pans, the fancy dishes (Thomas Rosenthal Arcta, close to 60yo), a fair number of tools, a few pieces of furniture. A large number of hardcover books. And likely a whole bunch of stuff I have forgotten is that old.
You actually use a slide rule?
For simple chained operations they can be noticeably faster than an electronic calculator.
And unless you are getting the circumference of the universe down to a few angstroms, the precision is absolutely adequate for everyday use.
slide rules are primo.
don't knock em til you have to use one.
Oh yeah I have a KitchenAid mixer that was my grandmother's, not sure how old it is exactly, but it's at least 25 if not 30...
I bought an artisan in the late 90's i tore it down and re-greased it 2 years ago, runs like new
Blankets
George forman grill, quesadilla maker, and a pizza oven.
Canning funnel.
Makes it easier to get things into glass jars without the narrow opening that would get clogged in a smaller funnel.
Cutlery, my mom bought the set before I was born. The heft is perfect, and the mouth feel is top notch.
A lot of the MP3 files I listen to.
I have swiss army knife, it's 19 years old so not quite 20, i use it everyday. I take it on every longer journey and there's virtually no situation where it doesn't help in some way... even if it's the silly toothpick, I'm always happy to have it.
My tabletop radio was made in 1958, it's still in perfect working order.
My entire living room audio setup is from the early 1970's.
Our kitchen has a Kenwood mixer/multi-apparatus from 1982, I changed the motor grease ~10 years ago and it works like new. Most of our kitchenware is inherited and at least 50 years old.
My oldest guitar is from 1950's and the newest maybe late 1990's.
Now that I've come to think of it, most part of the things I own and actively use actually predate the 1990's.
I have my grandparents cookware.
That pyrex and fireking stuff is legendary.
My electric stove/oven has been in my apartment since 1993, it's getting replaced on Thursday. When I moved in 10 years ago they asked if I wanted to replace it but didn't see a reason to if it still worked fine, it had a good run and I've cooked so much on it but it has gotten real bad lately so sadly it has to go. Excited to get a glass top one (not induction) with 4 cooking zones, my old one only has 3.
I have a thing for old computers, so.. My C64, VIC-20, plus/4, A600, A1200, NES, Sega master system, PowerBook G4. I can't fit all on my desk at once, so three are in storage, but I rotate.
Also, my graphing calculator. I bought it new in 2000. I think they haven't changed much, as there's still just a handful of models approved for state exams. I took a skipper course five years ago, and that's the one I brought.
Funny to think about my ti-83 being over 20 years old... Don't use it that much anymore but I do get it out occasionally.
I have and use a 1978 TI-30
I remember amen my teacher would say "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket"
Well, he is right, that TI-30 is to bulky for that.
Kitchen utensils, Cupboards, furnitures, framed pictures, our car & some tools.
take your pick
the list is endless.
Lots of things, but let's say the toaster.
Pretty sure it was a wedding present that my parents got a few years before I came along, so it's over 50 years old at this point. It didn't get any use for the first 30 years of its existence, but I've had it for longer than 20, so it counts either way.
Myself
I still have the dresser I was using when I was a little kid. I've had it for at least 45 years. It's a little banged up, but good solid wood.
Many kitchen and furniture items but if you are talking about things that usually go obsolete, a CRT computer monitor from 1984 (Commodore 1702).
My rice cooker, I'm convinced it will out live me.
Herman Miller Aeron Chair. Have had it for at least 25 years and besides a scuff or two on the arms, it’s in perfect shape. I work from home and am sitting on it all day every day, so it definitely has held up.
I bought one of these a few years ago for $200. Imagine my surprise when I got it home and was cleaning it only to find a label on the bottom that it also was well over 20 years old. Needed the cushion behind the thighs replaced and it was good as new.
A Honda Transalp from 1999. I still ride it to work. Throw in some oil, keep the battery fresh and she’ll never let you down. I’ve had the seat reupholstered and of course the usual wear items replaced (done most of that myself) and it just keeps going. I asked a mechanic to do the valve clearance check at 50.000km and he didn’t need to touch anything.
Fantastic machine, I’m gonna ride it until the wheels fall off.
I have an analog multimeter that still does the trick. It isn't the most precise tool, but it tells me if my batteries are flat and when I have a short on a component. Great tool, probably 50 years old now and I wouldn't touch a high voltage circuit with it but it does what I need it to do.
I use a really ancient analog hi-pot tester at work, which is basically a high potential insulation stress test. The hi-pot formula under UL is operating voltage x 2.25 + 2000v. It will put up to 40kV through a circuit at milli or micro amps to see if there is any leakage in the conductors through open air. This goes for bare conductors like busbars as well as insulated ones like wire, measuring their terminations or cracks in the insulation. It tests phase to phase and phase to ground to see if the electricity will jump thru air or over an insulated material, which is where the words strike and creep come from which have their own formulas of what is acceptable and what isn't for manufacturing and installation. There's a little more room for creep obviously.
All that is to say, there's plenty of fancy new digital hi-pot testers. We rented one for a project that was going on a marine grade system. They'll run a test at whatever your parameters you type in and save it all to a flash drive. We worked for 8 hours to set up all of our testing jumpers and ran a test for 1 second on the control wiring for it to say PASS then we put it all back together.
The fancy one saves the leakage current values to the drive. Our analog one will only display it on an analog dial and we write it down. This is ok for testing AC (and this is where things start to get a little over my head), something about the RMS nature of AC causes more leakage current during the test, so generally we have a leakage value of let's say 1 milliamp. DC will generally only make microamps of current when we run the test. Try recording any kind of value when you look at the dial and it looks like it doesn't even move past zero haha.
We basically told the customer that we have a pass/fail tester and can't accurately produce any type of value for leakage on DC unless we rented or purchased another machine. But for 9 out of 10 times, it's fine that's all anyone cares about anyway. I've fucked up and left a plate somewhere it shouldn't have been and believe me you'll know when this thing fails lol. It sent 11kV thru a tiny circuit board, whoops
my keyboard/mouse, face towels
Realistic Lab 400 turntable.
For those who don't know Realistic is an old Radio Shack brand. Because their users were tech savvy they came with full repair manuals detailing schematics, parts lists, assembly diagrams, etc...
This all makes it extremely easy to repair. I recently replaced the capacitors after it became apparent the direct drive was unstable. There was no question what I needed to order or where exactly it needed to go.
I will likely have it until the day I die.
Bunghole
All the large kitchen appliances came with this place. I'm sure the oven is over 20 years old and maybe also the dishwasher. When I got here the dishwasher didn't work and it took me ages to determine the main pump had rusted solid. An eBay replacement later and it's been working for 6 years.
Everything except (some) food and water.
Cuisinart Food Processor. Use it all the time. Got it as a gift from my mom in college. Just harvested a ton of basil last night and made "pesto pucks" to freeze to use over the winter.
Refrigerator is 23
I'm guessing it's not a Samsung.
I have a cheese shredder that is from before the 1980s. I'm not sure what its actual age is. It looks and feels like something from the Gold Rush days. It's metal, it's got that old timey metal look to it (not polished), it has a wooden handle, and it basically spins a circular shredder with a hand crank. It's probably from the 1950s. You can't put a lot of cheese in it, but it works well.
Our kitchen table is over 20 years old, but we don't use it as a kitchen table. Mostly it just collects junk. We eat in front of the TV like a lot of modern couples.
I recently found a hat I got 30 years ago and still have. I don't wear hats though, so it's been mostly unused.
I think the PS3 is 20 Years old. If not 20 then it should be there this year. I use it almost daily for gaming. It’s primarily my Minecraft, Uncharted, and LBP Machine though
It's this November. But thats a good path since all my systems before that are older like my original xbox, ps2, ps1, snes, nes, genesis, psp, nintendo ds, game boy advance, intelivision, nintendo 64, gamecube, and Dreamcast. And then any games I have for them all.
The janky fluorescent anglepoise desk lamp. It's about 30 years old and I've changed the bulb once.
Loads of things.
Kitchen: My stove us 30+ years old. Loads of kitchen gadgets, too. The older knife set my wife uses (she is too afraid to use mine), but mine might touch the 20 years, too.
Living room: The table is 30+, as well as the side table I made.
Basement: The shelves I built 30ish years ago - and they will probably last longest, as they are welded from steel.
And thousands of other things.
I have a living room table that dad made over 40 years ago.
If I had to pick one, it’s my Gameboy. I use that the most.
There’s also: probably half of my books, most of my cameras, my old consoles, my sewing machine, and there’s probably more stuff. I’m kind of obsessed with old things.
The table by my bed that i put my laptop on to watch tv in bed.
Ooh I love this. I started with nothing less than 20 years ago so I don't have much that old, but my Playstation 2 still gets used on occasion
Knitting stuff fron the 50s, glassware from the 60s, and probably a load of crockery/kitchen stuff that is at least 20 years old. My speakers and amps are 80s (although they have new cones) and guitar stuff from around the millennium.
NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, Wii, a cuckoo clock, that kind of cat clock with the eyes and tail that go side to side, a coffee grinder with the handle, my husband.
My spouse and I both have mid century 5 drawer tanker desks. I'm sitting at it to type this.
Attached to my monitor stand is the modified remains of an 80's gravity lamp. The base broke but the springs are good and it makes a great spotlight.
Our server and tv are built into the remains of an early 80's Zenith console TV. The screen was dead so we cut out space behind the decorative front pannel for a 32in flat screen and cut down the tower to work as scaffolding for the computer parts. Tossed a sound bar in and now it booms like a theater. You don't even notice the 2in of screen that's losts on the ends.
Our stove is a Montgomery Ward from the late 70s. It's an absolute marvel to use. The clock is broken so I'm planning to dismantle that area to put controls for a vent fan I want to install in the attached shelf.
Our fridge is modern but the second I find myself a '64 GE Americana I'm gutting it to modetnize that masterpiece. Unless I find the tools for metal fab first...
My Samsung microwave is from the mid 70's. It doesn't have a turn table but it heats food better than any modern box and has a fraction of the radio leak that my Walmart one had.
Do you have a writeup with pics for the server/tv project? That sounds very very cool.
I actually don't, but it's nowhere near as impressive as you might assume lol
We picked the TV up on marketplace. Unscrewed everything that was originally inside it and disposed of that stuff. I took the plastic faux wood decor off, laid the TV over the hole where the screen was, traced it with sharpie, and cut it with a sawzaw. Now the TV is held in place by the faux wood frame on the front and nylon straps on the back.
As for the server, I took an old tower and drilled out all the rivets until all the exterior pieces were off, then I used some the loose screws from the TV guts to anchor it too the inside of the TV box.
We have little strips of fabric covered posterboard hiding the ugly areas at the top and bottom of the screen and if I ever get around to it I'll disable the TV and wrap a full sheet if fabric around the front frame so that it transitions a little better.
Very cool, I love it!
Part of the original large corner desk I bought after graduating college. It was like 8' in both directions from the corner. I finally switched to a motorized rectangle desk, but I kept one side of the old desk for it's hutch. The thing is made of cheap mdf, but it's still doing it's job.
The doors.
French Press. It was my grandmother's, kept it after she died.
The brand, Melior, was bought by Bodum in 1991, and all French Press production went under the Bodum brand (the old Melior model became what is now known as the "Chambord" line), so it is at least 35 years old, possibly older.
I contacted Bodum to know if they could give me an approximate age, but they couldn't (or didn't want to bother searching). All I know it is a version with Pyrex glass, which may help a knowledgeable person to more precisely date it, but I kinda put my curiosity on pause for the time being.
Other than that, some of my grandfather's vinyls are quite old too (at least one of them is from the 80's), and I got some 20+ yo cassettes, some old mixtapes (back when mixtapes where actual tapes 😆).
I have an old Caban which is probably at least 40 years old (was my grandfather's, once again).
Oh, and some kitchen tools made in West Germany 😆.
Heet Liniment. It's about 50 years old and there is only a bit left so am saving it for that especially bad pain day.
My computer desk is a hand-me-down from my dad, it was already old 20 years ago...
Iron skillets are the oldest thing I personally bought and still use, going on 40 years for the oldest.
But I also have some furniture from my grandma, 1930s-40s, and the house I live in was mostly built in the 1940s.
The tube TV in my bedroom. My bed and the Sears mattress on it. Most of our furniture, save the kitchen table and one of our bookshelves. Our SNES & N64.
I have clothes that are over 20 years old that I keep thinking I might lose with weight to for into again.
My 23 year old pickup just kicked the bucket this spring.
My GE water heater has a metal plate on it stating it meets all the new 1945 safety regulations.
My house was built in 1875, according to the local historical society, or 1912 according to the county. I suspect the difference is that in 1875 you didn't need to file building permits with the county, but by the time they put the addition on in 1912 you did.
My Bachelor's Degree is over 20 years old, but I've never used that.
I was kind of rolling my eyes at you until the last sentence
I feel like if you ever replace that water heater you'll never find one again that lasts that long.
yeah, in fact the previous owner told me when he looked at the house in 1980 he saw that water heater and figured it would go out any day so he bought a brand new and rolled it in with his home loan and left in the barn for when it was needed. The "brand new" water heater has rusted all the way through without ever having been used.
Although it is still not around we were given a toaster for our wedding that was given to a couple for their wedding back in the forties. We had it for several years until one of our friends decided to cook a bagel in it and melted the cord. I ended up taking it apart and replaced the cord. We had it another several years until it was lost in a move. I like to think it is somewhere still toasting 80 years later.
I have an upright piano that was made in 1914.
In retrospect I wish I had gotten a newer/smaller piano… that thing weighs as much as a small car and it’s volume is more appropriate for a concert hall than a house.
We got it from a piano restoration company that sold it to us for just the cost of moving it because they have too many ancient uprights that no one wants.
Metal Dance Dance Revolution Mats...
I still use a stepladder that my parents bought (used) in the '90s.
A Tupperware yellow strainer.
My 8 inch cast iron skillet is my grandma's first skillet she got in about 1950. I think that qualifies?
I mean technically speaking I still have a few shirts from high school I wear which are all at least 22, so maybe those.
I have a moka pot from my dad that I don't use super frequently (every once in a while I try to learn how to do cuban-style espresso, otherwise I just drink drio coffee), but it's 30-40 years old.
Fridge. Bought in 1998
The speakers I use with my PC are from, like 1994 or 1995.
My house. It's from 1879..
Very true.
IN my home, I'd go for my Commodore 64, purchased back in '86 🤓
A bottle opener that was gifted to me when I was 16.
Basically all of our furniture except a couch and the beds. A number of tools, many of which I don't know the actual age of. A couple sewing machines although I guess those are tools too.
The one I'll pick to share is my desk. It was a teachers desk and the drawers are full of signatures from kids in the classes. No date but the desk had the top restored by a guy I knew over 20 years ago. It was given to me a few years later and I've used it ever since.
The wife
Was totally going to say this, or any part of my body really. My back, my knee. We are officially old this year. But it's felt that way for a decade at least.
I heard a rumour that not a single cell in your body is over 20 years old.
I didn't think neurons got replaced. Cartilage and bone don't either I believe. I would be interested to know more if what you are saying is actually true.
I've been enjoying my PS2 a lot lately
That not 20 years...OMGosh I'm old
My Panasonic microwave is 22, still going strong. Cast iron cookware and stainless pots i got from my mum (50+). Sunbeam hand mixer and Braun immersion blender from the 80s. Lots of glassware. Fridge, stove, washer, dryer.
2 steel desks from the 40s - they’re in the basement now, but the drawers glide like new.
No plans to replace anything unless it breaks. New stuff isn’t made well.
We have had a Potato masher since the 80s. It has been with us in over 5 house moves. The paint on the handle has been slowly wearing out with each use but we still use it twice a week!
Hair drier, that thing still blows super hot.
Also some real feather pillows, big ones.
Phones. Old phones don't miss alarms whereas every new phone I've ever had has skipped alarms.
Furniture. It's not made of that kind of massive cut wood but somehow it lasted.
My car is 25 years old.
I just replaced the bearings and seals on a Maytag Neptune washing machine that’s from 2004. The bearing was getting noisy during spin cycles and the front seal had a small tear that could leak when running small loads.
After replacing a similar aged dishwasher with a newer model 7 years ago, that has needed constant repair since, I’m not getting rid of this washer until something catastrophic fails on it. It’s built like a tank compared to current shit.
My cast iron pan is from the 40's, made in Ontario somewhere... I forget the name of the company rn. [Findlay I thk]
A carving knife and steel that was probably made before the 2000's. Antler handles, no markings. Looks hand made honestly, like someone bought it at a farmers market.
Shout out to my 16-17 y/o ikea kitchen knife. Cost me ~$16. Use it almost everyday. No moving parts, but I mean it just shows people how much I have it together. >..>
Oh, the fucking dank-ass mattress that came with my rental is probably old enough. Might as well be a king size sheet of twenty year old wet plywood with mysterious stains.
*Shout out to my 15 y/o, 1080p pro-scan monitor. Still works like new.
My car, a Renault Clio II, and a Maxi-matic toaster
Carbon Steel wok - over thirty years old, works better than it did when brand new.
Electric hand mixer
Quite a bit of our kitchen stuff: Braun stick blender from the 1980s, Cuisinart from the early 1990s, my mother's osterizer and electric frying pan from who knows when. I'm sure there are more. Until very recently, my husband had his coffee maker from since he started uni in 1979. Had 2 or 3 replacement carafs but it still brewed a pot until recently. My sewing machine is from the 1980s. A few outdoor and garage tools have made it a long time as well. The hedge trimmer has be 40+ yo. Ditto for the table saw. The oldest is a waffle maker from the 1940s. We have a couple Texas Instrument calcs from the 80s. Makes one sad when you realize how long those items keep working versus most things today that are toast after a year or two.
Pots and pans aren’t exciting, but they’re over 20. Same with utensils. Furnishings. The Wii. One of our cars. Plenty of hand and garden tools.
It takes a bit to have things that last. You move around so much when you’re younger, things are temporary. Cheap furniture or other items is are left for roommates or sold, parents get rid of stuff left behind. You can’t always afford quality stuff, much less haul it wherever you go for the next job or whatever.
So 2006. Lots. Washer im sure. This single strap backpack I have. Lots of clothes. Some of my dogs toys are hand me downs from my last dog. Don't think I have any electronics that have made it. Although I gave my dvd player to my brother a few years back. There has to be others as we don't get rid of things unless they no longer function. Oh. Actually a but load of basic tools.
The house itself is going on 80 (or might have passed it already; I have conflicting information on when it was built).
Half of my furniture is antique, with one large built-in cabinet having been salvaged from a house even older than mine.
I have no idea how old my gas range is, but I got it out of my in-laws' house a decade and a half ago and they'd had it for years before that.
My silverware is a hand-me-down from my mom, and is probably older than I am.
My newest car (out of too many) is a 2007 model, I think, which means it might've been built in 2006. Most of the others are from the '90s.
My previous daily-driver bike (which remains my backup after getting a cargo e-bike) is from circa 1991. Of my family's dozen+ bikes, there are only three that I know for a fact are less than 20 years old.
A surprising amount of stuff I have was found on the curb after other people threw it out, and is of indeterminate age.
You can determine the exact day of final assembly of your car using the VIN. You're correct that it would have been made in 2006
Silverware would probably be the oldest, my wife's grandmother bought them in the early 1900s as antiques, and then some "modern" accessories that matched, now antiques themselves. They get used on special occasions mostly.
I have a slow cooker thats ~30yrs old, works great.
The DVD/VHS player with FireWire for minidv is also used while I convert old family videos to digital, and my old dv camcorder is now in my daughter's hands to try making movies with her friends.
I'm sure there's more, but thats off the top of my head.
(Removed the copy/paste accident from work crap)
Several things, my N64, several shirts that I've had since highschool, both cars, and half of my tools.
Books, media (mostly games but some audi and video), some clothing, some tools, some kitchen stuff, my tractor, and plenty more. Used to be a lot of other stuff but lots of old furniture went when moving across the world. Many of the above-listed things are 30+ acually
I guess if "sometime look at" qualified as "still using", lots of photos and small things I inherited from family
My plush toys. I talk to them. I cuddle them. I have a spreadsheet with all information about them that I make up to create stories (name, gender, family, close friends, disabilities, personnality…).
Some are recent but some have more than 20 years.
A beautiful orange Cousances cast iron roasting pot from the 60s, used to be my great-grandmother's. I mainly use it to make vegan mac and cheese, or enormous batches of vegetable soup whenever I get a flu.
The oldest object in regular use however is an old dowry chest, a light wood painted black, that my other great grandma kept all her and her son's belongings in when they fled from the red army during WW2. I keep some bulkier tools, a box with sandpaper, and a ton of bubble wrap in it lol
Thanks for clarifying that the mac and cheese is vegan. I use arch btw but I'm not into CrossFit.
Sorry, I just added that so people don't assume I pay for animals to be subjected to a lifetime of torture cause I'm a weak selfish removed.
They’ll always tell you.
Let's see. Kitchen table is a solid wood thing from at least the 70s. The chairs in the dining room table are a set of 200 year old antiques I found on Craigslist. I have a vanity that was built by an old steamfitter in the 1920s.
In the workshop, there's all sorts of old stuff. My jointer is built like a tank and hails from Eisenhower administration. And then I have numerous hand planes that are over a century old.
Underwear
My guitar. Taylor 314 CE from 2000, 20+ years of age is ideal for acoustics and I like the 3 band eq that model had
I got an old can opener, a heuck cin o. 45223 that probably belonged to my grandfather before becoming a standard item in my moms silverware drawer. Works so much better than any modern can opener I have ever used. The best part is that my mom doesn't care if I take it with me if I can ever move out on my own. So I am set with a beautiful can opener that'll probably outlive me.
My Xbox 360 console will be turning 16 this year!
Where to start...