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What’s the oldest household item you have that’s still in use?

Mottie

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And I don’t mean the wife!

I’ve just dropped our tuppaware cream cracker container and spilled my crackers when the lid came off. I said to Mrs Mottie that we should get a new one. She won’t hear of it as this one belonged to her mother and she says it is 55 years old. Our next oldest item is our ironing board that we got as a wedding present in 1984 so that will be 41 years old in a few weeks time.

What's yours?
 
I have some tools from the 70's...gas pliars,lead dresser & a rawplug chisel that is as quicka as a drill in brickwork.
 
A large aluminium rations tin from WW2, though to be fair we inherited it from the old boy who had lived here since before the war. Used now for storing stuff in the garage. Might be needing it for WW3
 
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I've got this chopping board, it was a wedding present to my grandparents in 1929. It was made by an uncle of one of my grandparents.
I have photographed both sides, maybe someone can identify the wood? It's one piece of wood.
It has been in daily use for 96 years.
 
Electrically, I have an early Sanyo microwave oven that I bought during 1989. It still works well and is used daily, but the white casing has turned a cream colour.

As for other items I have heavy weight cast iron pans that used to belong to my great grandmother that have been passed down to me. They mainly now reside on a shelf for display due to the weight of the things. Oh yes, and an old copper pan from my grandmother that is tinned inside and is polished up; that hangs from a shelf hook on display.
 
My Sony Digicube clock radio has been plugged in and working perfectly since 1981. Used to get me up for school. Now retired, the alarm hardly gets any use.

My mum has got some quite ancient stuff. House is a bit of a domestic appliance museum. Still has the AEG Lavalux twin tub that was bought to launder my nappies almost 60 years ago. Not sure how well it's working these days though.
 
I have some chisels from my Grandad, but I don't know how old they are.

A chopping board I use for chopping and to put hot pans on. Made by a kitchen fitter from a cut out of wood worktop. It's solid (well made of strips glued together), but it's really well made. It's been in the dishwasher many times a year and oiled with olive oil.
He made it for me in 1990.

I have a Breville sandwich toaster from 1984.

When I went to boarding school in 1977, my Mum (who was left penniless by my Dad who ****ed off with wife number 2) and me went to the school outfitters in Leeds and she bought everything I needed in sizes that would still fit me in 1983, when I would leave school.

I still have my football socks, complete with the remains of my embroidery and my tag with name and school number.
I still wear them!

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Trousers were taken up to beyond the knee and let down at the end of each term. Shirts started off baggy and loose at the collar and ended up bursting at the buttons and couldn't be done up at the neck.

I was regularly ribbed by other kids. "The floods are over now...."

It didn't help that I was 6 foot before the age of 13. With extra long arms anyway, even shirts that fitted me struggled to have sleeves that reached the base of my palms.

It's awkward growing up!
 
Now that I'm getting older, I wish I'd held onto a bit more stuff from my youth. Having said that, it's probably quite healthy not to give a feck about such things when you're younger (oh I'd better hold onto this that the other into my old age!)

My oldest thing is a relatively recent addition. A small ornament given to me by my mum a few months back. It originally belonged to my gran so goodness knows how old it is. It's a bit surreal looking at pics of me as a child and the ornament is in the background.
 
I have a junior engineer's task book, whose first entry dated 1974 by my Divisional Officer states........."Buck Up". :LOL:
 
securespark said:
I have some chisels from my Grandad, but I don't know how old they are.

A chopping board I use for chopping and to put hot pans on. Made by a kitchen fitter from a cut out of wood worktop. It's solid (well made of strips glued together), but it's really well made. It's been in the dishwasher many times a year and oiled with olive oil.
He made it for me in 1990.

I have a Breville sandwich toaster from 1984.

When I went to boarding school in 1977, my Mum (who was left penniless by my Dad who ****ed off with wife number 2) and me went to the school outfitters in Leeds and she bought everything I needed in sizes that would still fit me in 1983, when I would leave school.

I still have my football socks, complete with the remains of my embroidery and my tag with name and school number.
I still wear them!

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Trousers were taken up to beyond the knee and let down at the end of each term. Shirts started off baggy and loose at the collar and ended up bursting at the buttons and couldn't be done up at the neck.

I was regularly ribbed by other kids. "The floods are over now...."

It didn't help that I was 6 foot before the age of 13. With extra long arms anyway, even shirts that fitted me struggled to have sleeves that reached the base of my palms.

It's awkward growing up!
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I see a face there, lol...
 
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