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The keyboard I bought for my first PC build. It's the Alchemy Elixir.

Myself

My rice cooker, I'm convinced it will out live me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Breadbox, colander, all the silverware, plates cups bowls.

Oh, house.

Cutlery, my mom bought the set before I was born. The heft is perfect, and the mouth feel is top notch.

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.

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

I have a living room table that dad made over 40 years ago.

Many of my watches.

I got this solid marble 6ft lamp I stole from a landfill. Wrapped that bitch in ivy. Swapped to pink and blue bulbs.

A E S T H E T I C

Also I only drive cars from before the 80's because I don't like fuel injection or computers in cars

Guitar

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.

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

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.

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

Several things, my N64, several shirts that I've had since highschool, both cars, and half of my tools.

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.

Some of my kitchen knives, at least one is 40+ and others 20+, generally a lot of my kitchen utensils are quite old

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

Coffee brewer. Desk. Have a 100(?) year old wooden couch that the dog likes to sleep on.

The table by my bed that i put my laptop on to watch tv in bed.

Off the top of my head:

• Two of my guitars
• Living room table
• 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.
• My basement toiled was installed in the 80s

My audio system. It still sounds better than lots of new equipment in the same price category.

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