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.
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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.
My marriage
A Mosin bayonet. uh wait, I gotta go.
Good hunting
My house. It's from 1879..
that's not IN your home.
Very true.
IN my home, I'd go for my Commodore 64, purchased back in '86 🤓
oh nice. my first computer was a c64. i got it as a 7 year old. It was great.
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.
take your pick
- until recently I was using a record player from 1970.
- I regularly play Victrolas from as far back as 1902.
- my house itself was built in 1900.
- the HVAC for half my house was manufactured in 1987.
- the toilet in my downstairs bathroom was manufactured in 1927.
- the wiring in my house is old knob and tube from the 1930s. some of the switches are also from around that era.
- other wiring is from the 1950s.
- the doors and doorknobs are from 1900, though it seems I am the first to perform any maintenance on them in over 100 years.
- I have an original NES set up in my office from 1987 that I or my kids play
- one of my refrigerators was manufactured in 1997
the list is endless.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of the MP3 files I listen to.
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.
They’ll always tell you.
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)
The speakers I use with my PC are from, like 1994 or 1995.
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.
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
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.
I've been enjoying my PS2 a lot lately
That not 20 years...OMGosh I'm old
My computer desk is a hand-me-down from my dad, it was already old 20 years ago...
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.
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.
My damn life.
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.
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.
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.
Carbon Steel wok - over thirty years old, works better than it did when brand new.
My car, a Renault Clio II, and a Maxi-matic toaster
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