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

Hand tools: lots, from stainless steel pots and cooking cutlery to whiskers, hammers and pliers, all going back over 50 years.
Appliances, I still have an undercounter Zanussi fridge from 1980s that for a few years lived in my shed used as a cabinet.
Now still going strong under my alleyway cover, dry but still in the open.
I keep drinks in there and they're super chilled on setting 4.
Sometimes the boss needs to freeze large shoppings and I put it on max power 6: all gets frozen in no time.
2 lamps from 1980s, one 6 footer all in decorated brass, weights a ton.
And recently I gave away my trustworthy Pioneer hi-fi system because the volume knob gave up.
The guy who collected it fixed it and it's now working again, so I'm glad it's gone to a good home.
My mum has a collection of stuff almost a century old (or older), belonging to her mum or grandma, including one beautiful functional foot operated sawing machine which she still uses occasionally.
 
We got a new salad spinner a couple of weeks ago, retired the old one that we got around the year our first was born.
He is about 35 now so I thought it was time for a new one :)

After that I still use some butter knives that were my grandads, bone handles - do not like the dishwasher.
 
Notch7 said:
You can’t beat those classic butter knives, modern knives don’t come close.
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Ours finally fell apart. Those new butter spreaders are hopeless and bendy. Useless unless the butter is really soft. The next best thing we have found is a normal stainless steel knife with a thick comfortable shaft and a wide blade. We find these excellent:

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diy_fun_uk said:
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!)
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I was thoroughly modern, I never kept anything from my childhood, and nowt much from my youth, no photos, no mementoes. All I ever kept, was tools, my oldest of which, is a 1/4 pound pin hammer.

I have no immediate family left alive, so a few years ago, I got interested in tracing my ancestry. In my youth, most of my relations had passed away, before I was old enough to take any notice, so I had little in the way of a start. I got there in the end though, and quite a way back, and a few of the memories refreshed.
 
Amazingly....absolutely none! Except one item, which was (blimey, this is embarrassing) completely unnecessary. It was one of those generation of washing machines that had both a cold and hot supply connection. The component in question was the internal solenoid on the hot side. For the crassest of reasons I had determined (misconstrued) that this had failed and I sought a replacement online. Remember, in these times washing machines were far easier to open up and dismantle and then reassemble (if you were in need of a hobby :giggle:).
 
Got a mixing bowl from 1954 that my nan gave me. And some old serving plates, age unknown, but pre-70s
 
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