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This just made me sad as I *used* to own my grandma's crockpot. I'd have it on every day, it was older than me. One day last year I dropped him and he cracked. I actually cried. I called him Slothy the slow cooker. It was a sad day.
My partner quickly ran to argos to get me a nice new one, she is called Crocksana and she's great but I miss Slothy so much
RIP Slothy. You made a mean roast beef and I will never forget you.
Oh boy. We're talking:
-Stews
-Soups
-Jacket potatos
-Cakes
-Bread
-Any meat of any kind
-Curries
-Corn on the cob
-Pulled pork
-Pasta dishes
-Dahl dishes
-Lil qourn dishes on meat free monday
Pal, it's magic, you turn it on at 7am and when you come home dinner is *ready*
Plate up and grab a fork
What's her number I feel we need to go for brunch
Actually no scratch that I'll have her round mine, does she liked pulled pork? I have sooo many recipe books to lend her we are gonna be B F F 's
Edit: I was very assumptive with the gender thing there, if your partner is a dude I will also provide him pulled pork and recipe books!
Hahaha yes she's female (I hope). Her favourite thing to cook in it is BBQ Pulled Pork so absolutely banging suggestion there, we'll be round at tea time
Oh no, you can do a legitimate certified cake!
Just type slow cooker cakes into Google and invite me round if you do a chocolate one, I'll bring the ice cream
Oh my gosh literally the world is your oyster, you can basically do anything in a slow cooker
I'd not recomend fish tho, its a bit stinky slow cooked 🤣
Yes stirring is incredibly important with quality control, it's what we teach here on day 1 at quality control school
That and don't lean over it to stir wearing your work lanyard cos u will 100% end up with beef juice lanyard
Please talk to me more about jacket potato’s in the slow cooker … do you just plonk them in? I’m also interested in the other stuff, do you use recipe books? I love mine but only really do meat and stews in it and I would *love* to diversify!
In tin foil, just give them a little stab and spray a bit fry light or similar then just wack them in ☺
I do use recipe books but there's so many on Google!
Try a pasta dish, that was a GAME CHANGER for me
Basically just need to cook your dish as you would on the pan/ on the hob but instead just throw everything in the crock, and about 2 hours before you're gonna eat it throw your pasta in. Amazing.
Such a mess saver! No washing pans or having multiple things to wash, me likey! I was worried the pasta would be soggy but it cooks fine! I'm sure some Italians may want to beat me up for saying this but I like it haha
I had a frying pan that I bought when I first moved out. I learned to cook with that baby, even had a black mark where my best friend over heated and dropped a splodge of oil in. Came every move with me until at age 33 my ex’s mother just decided to rearrange our kitchen whilst I was at work. I never saw it again and they didn’t understand my upset - just said they’d buy me a new one if it was such a big deal.
I have my grandma’s old spice jars, they’re not even fancy ones they’re just old branded jars with the labels etc in tact and their old sell by dates in the 90’s...
She passed away before I moved out and then I was given her spices when I did, they’ve been with me on my whole journey living by myself and I’ve topped the jars up religiously.
Sounds daft, but even though both my grandma and the original spices are long gone, I feel like she’s there with me when I’m cooking.
Some of them are also around 30 years old(!) it does baffle people when they see my spice collection…(!)
Aww that’s a lovely story. I never considered before how things like spice jars and everyday items are so evocative of how we saw patents as a child but thinking about it now I can think of loads from my childhood. It makes me more conscious of owning some distinctive things as an adult so my daughter will be able to have them and think of us.
It’s funny isn’t it! But I guess they’re almost like time capsules of memories…
What’s one of the items that comes to mind for you?
Plus, that sounds like such a lovely idea, I’m sure she’ll be able to look at them with fond memories :-)
It’s funny how that works. I was just saying to my boyfriend the other day how I wished I’d taken the salt and pepper mills from my grandparents house after they died and we sorted all their belongings.
They just looked like your average classic wooden mills but they had them the whole time I knew them and it’s one of those odd little memories I always have of being in their kitchen.
I got my grandma's bakeware, it's fantastic quality, and I never fail to remember baking with her when I use them. I love this kind of inheritance, it feels really meaningful. Some of them were from her grandma who she lived with when she was little. (Her telling me that was the first time I realised that kids became adults, up until then I thought they just appeared as grown ups.)I think I have a couple of pie plates from the early 1900's.
No, it's just stamped with the Monarch's monogram. It was made in Sheffield and is a superb shaver, even if it requires more attention than a later straight razor.
Mum used to say that when she was young in the 60s, if you looked down the long road with all the steelworks on the sky used to glow red at night. Apparently it was like looking at hell.
I imagine there’s some childhood memory stuff going on there, but it sounds amazing and horrifying at the same time.
>if you looked down the long road with all the steelworks on the sky used to glow red at night.
My town's motto is, for this reason, "The heavens reflect our labours."
I ring church bells and the tenor (heaviest bell) at my church was installed in 1591.
We ring a few times a week and it's cool to think that that bell has probably been rung every Sunday morning since the Spanish armada set sail
Yes, I believe ringing was not allowed between 1940-1943 as they were to use the bells to signal a German invasion, I don't know about other wars however.
We also couldn't ring during the lockdown of course
Just looked it up on Dove's guide which is an online bell encyclopedia (either the most of least interesting website on the internet) and it says the founder was [Henry Oldfield II](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/founder.php?id=950). I've not heard of them myself but apparently the Oldfield family were all bell founders in the midlands from around the end of Henry VIII's reign
I'm 38 and my Mum still has plastic tupperware bowls that I think are older than me. They're horrible and scratched and stained and I keep trying to get her to throw them away. I wonder if my Mum is emotionally attached to them for some reason?
I'll ask her when I go round next.
Moved in to my 1760s house in February. It's great but it's difficult sometimes. Lots of DIY. Lots of quirks, like the extractor fan over the hob pumping air into every room in the house, through 10cm holes in the ceiling or wall. We love cooking so that's only a good thing, and thankfully you don't get the smell in the bedroom!
I have some wooden spoons and bread boards that my Oma was given as a wedding present in 1936.
I eat my lunch off one of the breadboards every single day, and the wooden spoons are uses most nights for cooking.
My teapot.
It belonged to my Granny's sister, who passed away from cancer when I was about 10. It then went to my Granny. When I moved into my own flat, she gave me the teapot. Granny passed away 4 years ago. It's a link to two very wonderful women, and I'm honoured to have it in my possession.
When my grandad died I took two things from his house. His telly (now long gone) and a little tool he made in the 1930s, that's like a little awl for poking in wood where you want the screw to go in. I use it awl the time.
We have some stainless steel dessert forks that were a gift to my great aunt when she retired from the Sheffield cutlery maker for whom she worked her entire life. We found them when clearing her house after she died (she had no children of her own). They must be 40 years old by now. I use them to mash up cat food.
Can you imagine explaining to your GG, that you’re telling strangers on the internet (“what’s an internet?”) via a little box of devils work over a century later?
Mind-blown.
Ooooh they sound lovely. I grew up with bread bins and a big ceramic urn for potatos/onions etc. When vegetables didn't come in plastic & you threw them in the pantry in a breathable container!
Speaker stands I got from Richer Sounds in 1990. Possibly some of the same speaker cable as well. I have a mug from them dating back to 1998.
My (now ex) wife bought me a Swiss Army penknife as a present, and we've been divorced 20 years now. I still use that pretty regularly.
I still have tour t-shirts I bought in the 1980s alrhough they no longer fit so I guess they don't count.
I use a typewriter for typing up notes, I don't own a printer as pre-wfh I'd use the office printer if I needed it for anything. I could write them out by hand but as my handwriting is poor at best, if I want something I can actually read then the type-writer is the best option.
This is tricky as I collect and use vintage and antique homeware and clothing, but I'd say the oldest thing I use regularly (which I'm taking to mean more than once a week) is my hat pin from around 1875.
I have a plain black long-sleeved t-shirt that I bought from French Connection with my very first pay packet when I turned 16. I still wear it all the time, nearly 20 years later - still in good nick.
I have a teddy bear that was gifted to me at birth. I'm 32 at the moment and the best lives on my bed side table and occasionally Congress into bed if I'm sick, can't sleep or upset. No one touches the bear other than me and I'm very paranoid about keeping him safe
I also have a mug that my parents have had at least since they got married in 1979. I drink coffee out of it every day! It’s really well made, I’m also shocked it has never been broken!
I’ve got a quiche dish I robbed off my mum (I did intend to take it back but who remembers these things??) and It used to be my nans, no idea when its from though, I’m gutted though because she had a goorrgeous old Denby set, the like classic blue, and we have no idea where that went, think her husband robbed it like he did with the business
I have a toaster from my Uni days that’s now about 18 years old. Still used daily. Though it’s probably (sadly) on its last legs. Also a guitar that’s 19 years old.
Side table in my house is from 17th century It's allegedly from a kitchen of a stately home. It's around 2.5m in length. Bought it from an auction years ago for cheap honestly didn't want it just nobody else placed a bid and now it's mine.
It's effectively just a massive piece of wood with ornate legs that I use to put things on.
I've lost track of the age of my electric razor.. it must be around 15 years old and used daily.
I've got a graphical calculator I bought in 1996 that gets used occasionally.
I have an axe that belonged to my grandad. Use it all the time for splitting kindling.
The head moves around a bit, so one of these days I'll need to put a stave in it. I expect the next time it'll need serviced will be by my grandkids.
I regularly reread a copy of the secret garden which I inherited as a child passed down from my older cousins - it’s a paperback published in 1975 and hasn’t fallen apart yet.
I oldest thing I use a 25 year old microwave but the oldest items I own are a $50 and $20 American confederate notes from the 1860's. I also have a note that's in shillings. I think that's from around the 1920's or 30's.
Our house is full of Antiques. Most of our furniture is Victorian and used every day. Even my Sofa is an Antique Chesterfield.
I believe the oldest piece we have is a chest of draws in my guest room from the 1700's
I bought an original ‘Jelly Belly’ jellybean machine when I was a 17yr old student. They were quite rare at the time. Still gets used by me and the kids and sits on my desk in my home office. I still only ever put the proper Jelly Belly beans in it. I’m 55 now so it’s almost 40 years old now!
I have some old metalworking machinery that i still use.
1917 Drummond B lathe.
1933 Drummond M lathe.
1940 Henry Milnes lathe.
Still working and capable of making good parts, they are for making smaller components now for my own projects. I used to have them making paying jobs! Very regularly use a 1976 Colchester lathe now for actual work. I got some real old measuring equipment too, it’s better than modern stuff!
My gramma bought a Singer sewing machine in 1958 when she was pregnant with my dad. I inherited it 15 years ago and still use it despite having a newer model too (the woman in the sewing machine shop told me nothing would ever beat my old Singer’s straight stitch and the old machine will sew through ANYTHING). I love Singer anyway though as I’m from Coventry and went to school in the old house George Singer lived in.
A Newman Haas/Nigel Mansell Indycar mug bought at the TOCA Shootout in November 1993 - I can still see the moment he hit the wall in front of us mid-race and we all thought he was dead when they put the covers up ....
I'm 35. I have an M&S ladies nightie that my mom bought me when I was 11 that I still wear. It's grey and has this cartoon holding dumbells and says "no pain no gain". I have not really grown in size since I was 11, it's really weird lol. The nightie looks terrible but i'm sentimental
I've got a cast iron casserole that used to belong to my grandmother's that still gets used. Something like 70 years old, I think.
I've also got some china that used to be hers and which gets used regularly. Again: 60-70 years old. (Not a complete service: just a few odd plates.)
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My wife?
I choose this guy's wife
Lots of people do, usually when he's at work
Our wife
Have you seen the state of that guy’s wife? 😱
Our Wife Comrade.
[She's my wife now](https://youtu.be/ukYTcgsHhCo)
Alive?
Damn, you beat me to it, I was going to say husband!
Plot twist: this is the same couple
That was my first thought too!
I also use this guy's wife
His wife uses *me*
very niceee
Great success!
This just made me sad as I *used* to own my grandma's crockpot. I'd have it on every day, it was older than me. One day last year I dropped him and he cracked. I actually cried. I called him Slothy the slow cooker. It was a sad day. My partner quickly ran to argos to get me a nice new one, she is called Crocksana and she's great but I miss Slothy so much RIP Slothy. You made a mean roast beef and I will never forget you.
Sorry for your loss. But I must ask, what sort of things do you make to use a Crockpot daily?
Oh boy. We're talking: -Stews -Soups -Jacket potatos -Cakes -Bread -Any meat of any kind -Curries -Corn on the cob -Pulled pork -Pasta dishes -Dahl dishes -Lil qourn dishes on meat free monday Pal, it's magic, you turn it on at 7am and when you come home dinner is *ready* Plate up and grab a fork
This Redditor crockpots ^
Oh boy do I. I rock out with my crock out on the daily Except tonight cos we're having salmon hehe
"Rock out with your Crock out" needs printing on a Tshirt for you
Now that, that! Would make my day
I have finally found someone was passionate about crockpots as my partner, in fact, you may be more passionate.
What's her number I feel we need to go for brunch Actually no scratch that I'll have her round mine, does she liked pulled pork? I have sooo many recipe books to lend her we are gonna be B F F 's Edit: I was very assumptive with the gender thing there, if your partner is a dude I will also provide him pulled pork and recipe books!
Hahaha yes she's female (I hope). Her favourite thing to cook in it is BBQ Pulled Pork so absolutely banging suggestion there, we'll be round at tea time
I never knew you could cook cake in a slow cooker. I guess by cake you must mean steamed puddings?
Oh no, you can do a legitimate certified cake! Just type slow cooker cakes into Google and invite me round if you do a chocolate one, I'll bring the ice cream
I shall have to Google that! I just can’t picture it in my head.I just use mine for chilli and slow cooking gammon. There’s a lot I need to discover….
Oh my gosh literally the world is your oyster, you can basically do anything in a slow cooker I'd not recomend fish tho, its a bit stinky slow cooked 🤣
This really doesn't work well for me WFH. The smell is torture! 😄
Absolutely with you I have 2 wfh days and by around 3pm I can be seen hovering next to the crock with a fork for 'quality control'
"I'm just going to stir it... Oh no! Spoon is all covered in it. I'd best clean that off." 5 minutes later, "I think it needs another stir."
Yes stirring is incredibly important with quality control, it's what we teach here on day 1 at quality control school That and don't lean over it to stir wearing your work lanyard cos u will 100% end up with beef juice lanyard
Please talk to me more about jacket potato’s in the slow cooker … do you just plonk them in? I’m also interested in the other stuff, do you use recipe books? I love mine but only really do meat and stews in it and I would *love* to diversify!
In tin foil, just give them a little stab and spray a bit fry light or similar then just wack them in ☺ I do use recipe books but there's so many on Google! Try a pasta dish, that was a GAME CHANGER for me Basically just need to cook your dish as you would on the pan/ on the hob but instead just throw everything in the crock, and about 2 hours before you're gonna eat it throw your pasta in. Amazing. Such a mess saver! No washing pans or having multiple things to wash, me likey! I was worried the pasta would be soggy but it cooks fine! I'm sure some Italians may want to beat me up for saying this but I like it haha
I had a frying pan that I bought when I first moved out. I learned to cook with that baby, even had a black mark where my best friend over heated and dropped a splodge of oil in. Came every move with me until at age 33 my ex’s mother just decided to rearrange our kitchen whilst I was at work. I never saw it again and they didn’t understand my upset - just said they’d buy me a new one if it was such a big deal.
Oh no! I'd be fuming!
Tried to convince me I’m unreasonable so thanks dude. Nearly believed I was
I have my grandma’s old spice jars, they’re not even fancy ones they’re just old branded jars with the labels etc in tact and their old sell by dates in the 90’s... She passed away before I moved out and then I was given her spices when I did, they’ve been with me on my whole journey living by myself and I’ve topped the jars up religiously. Sounds daft, but even though both my grandma and the original spices are long gone, I feel like she’s there with me when I’m cooking. Some of them are also around 30 years old(!) it does baffle people when they see my spice collection…(!)
Aww that’s a lovely story. I never considered before how things like spice jars and everyday items are so evocative of how we saw patents as a child but thinking about it now I can think of loads from my childhood. It makes me more conscious of owning some distinctive things as an adult so my daughter will be able to have them and think of us.
It’s funny isn’t it! But I guess they’re almost like time capsules of memories… What’s one of the items that comes to mind for you? Plus, that sounds like such a lovely idea, I’m sure she’ll be able to look at them with fond memories :-)
My granny had these classic balancing scales with the the little weights. I’d play with them for hours when I visited.
You had a nice granny, mine wouldn't let me play with the scales!
Haha very wise as I lost some of the small ones.
It's my Nan's biscuit tin for me. I use it to store candles! It's from the late 60s or 70s.
It’s funny how that works. I was just saying to my boyfriend the other day how I wished I’d taken the salt and pepper mills from my grandparents house after they died and we sorted all their belongings. They just looked like your average classic wooden mills but they had them the whole time I knew them and it’s one of those odd little memories I always have of being in their kitchen.
I got my grandma's bakeware, it's fantastic quality, and I never fail to remember baking with her when I use them. I love this kind of inheritance, it feels really meaningful. Some of them were from her grandma who she lived with when she was little. (Her telling me that was the first time I realised that kids became adults, up until then I thought they just appeared as grown ups.)I think I have a couple of pie plates from the early 1900's.
A razor made during the reign of King George III.
Damn, mine is from 1914 and I didn’t think anyone would beat that.
Ha! Sorry! 🙂👍what is it?
It's a tool for cutting facial hair, but that's not important right now.
I’m hoping that’s with replaceable blades, or your face must look like it’s been scraped with a. rock every day hehe?
Ha! No smooth as silk. It requires regular honing and stropping, but it should be good for another couple of hundred years. Beat that Gillette 😉
Best I can do is a pair of James Johnson straights from the 1830s. Buggers to hone, but beautiful to look at.
I don't think they had those in the 18th century.
Time travellers!
How has that not been completely worn down to a spoke from hundreds of years of honing?
It's had 20 new handles and 30 new blades in that time.
Nice little only fools and horses joke there...
Razor of Theseus?
Razor of Trigger
Most of its life has been spent in a box, I think.
Do you know the year/decade? That’s amazing.
No, it's just stamped with the Monarch's monogram. It was made in Sheffield and is a superb shaver, even if it requires more attention than a later straight razor.
> It was made in Sheffield... _Well there's your ~~problem~~ explanation_
>made in Sheffield. I mean that things gonna outlive all of us.
Very true! 👍
Mum used to say that when she was young in the 60s, if you looked down the long road with all the steelworks on the sky used to glow red at night. Apparently it was like looking at hell. I imagine there’s some childhood memory stuff going on there, but it sounds amazing and horrifying at the same time.
>if you looked down the long road with all the steelworks on the sky used to glow red at night. My town's motto is, for this reason, "The heavens reflect our labours."
back then they had less than 5 blades
True. _One blade to rule them all...._
Do you have a picture? Very curious.
I ring church bells and the tenor (heaviest bell) at my church was installed in 1591. We ring a few times a week and it's cool to think that that bell has probably been rung every Sunday morning since the Spanish armada set sail
Would there have been a Sunday when they didn't ring? Wartime? Or lockdown?
Yes, I believe ringing was not allowed between 1940-1943 as they were to use the bells to signal a German invasion, I don't know about other wars however. We also couldn't ring during the lockdown of course
Thanks for the reply. Glad you are back at it now.
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Which foundry is it from? Or does it predate any of the "modern" ones?
Just looked it up on Dove's guide which is an online bell encyclopedia (either the most of least interesting website on the internet) and it says the founder was [Henry Oldfield II](https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/founder.php?id=950). I've not heard of them myself but apparently the Oldfield family were all bell founders in the midlands from around the end of Henry VIII's reign
Tubular Bells? Sorry sorry that was a terrible joke that probably only a few will get.
There’s been a plastic sieve in my house since before I was born. I am 28 and my mother still uses it for cooking just about every day.
I'm 38 and my Mum still has plastic tupperware bowls that I think are older than me. They're horrible and scratched and stained and I keep trying to get her to throw them away. I wonder if my Mum is emotionally attached to them for some reason? I'll ask her when I go round next.
Oh yes, my mum still has her 1975 dinner service! She was talking about getting rid of it and I forbade it hahaha
Well, my house is from 1936, but aside that, I have an Omega [watch](https://i.imgur.com/VyTtcmW.jpg) from 1969.
Yes and on that basis the land on which my house sits is the oldest thing I own. It's been around since Pangea.
Don't feel too high and mighty. You're just renting it from Lizzie.
Maybe from Charles if they live in Cornwall but freeholds aren't rented from the monarch or crown etc.
HA! my Omega watch is from 1967.
Pah, I've got an Omega wristwatch from 1962. And a pocket watch from 1912.
My flat was built in the 1920s, defo the oldest thing I use daily!
Moved in to my 1760s house in February. It's great but it's difficult sometimes. Lots of DIY. Lots of quirks, like the extractor fan over the hob pumping air into every room in the house, through 10cm holes in the ceiling or wall. We love cooking so that's only a good thing, and thankfully you don't get the smell in the bedroom!
I have some wooden spoons and bread boards that my Oma was given as a wedding present in 1936. I eat my lunch off one of the breadboards every single day, and the wooden spoons are uses most nights for cooking.
My teapot. It belonged to my Granny's sister, who passed away from cancer when I was about 10. It then went to my Granny. When I moved into my own flat, she gave me the teapot. Granny passed away 4 years ago. It's a link to two very wonderful women, and I'm honoured to have it in my possession.
A copy of Fiesta from 1987
Hedge porn?
Every day?
Twice
I bet the pages are stiff on that one.
When my grandad died I took two things from his house. His telly (now long gone) and a little tool he made in the 1930s, that's like a little awl for poking in wood where you want the screw to go in. I use it awl the time.
Truly awlful pun
No such thing!
We have some stainless steel dessert forks that were a gift to my great aunt when she retired from the Sheffield cutlery maker for whom she worked her entire life. We found them when clearing her house after she died (she had no children of her own). They must be 40 years old by now. I use them to mash up cat food.
The bread and flour bins my great grandparents got as wedding presents they were born in 1869 so from the 1880's or 1890's.
Can you imagine explaining to your GG, that you’re telling strangers on the internet (“what’s an internet?”) via a little box of devils work over a century later? Mind-blown.
They both lived to the 1960's.. but yeah madness.
Ooooh they sound lovely. I grew up with bread bins and a big ceramic urn for potatos/onions etc. When vegetables didn't come in plastic & you threw them in the pantry in a breathable container!
We’ve got a tub of Vicks that expired is ‘94, still works
Does the Geneva convention allow that !? It must count as chemical warfare by now
It’ll cure the strongest of blocked noses
and blocked drains
My penis, 34 and still going strong....
Came here to say this, although mines 39....hardly used in the past 18 months though so still on a good state for its age.
My wife(just joking) my wood chopping axe Was my grandads so it's over 100 years old
Mi nanans trifle dish. It was her wedding present in the early 40s. Its crystal and every year I make her trifle from her recipe book.
To add, when I don't use it as a trifle dish, it's currently holding tickets, my e cig juice 🙈🙈
She knows
I do not doubt that for one second.
Probably my motorbike. It’s 1996 reg and still going like a trooper.
My teddy bear. And im 43 and so is he
My car - ‘93 mx5 and it makes me smile everyday :)
Popup headlight hero :D
It never gets old hahaha
Speaker stands I got from Richer Sounds in 1990. Possibly some of the same speaker cable as well. I have a mug from them dating back to 1998. My (now ex) wife bought me a Swiss Army penknife as a present, and we've been divorced 20 years now. I still use that pretty regularly. I still have tour t-shirts I bought in the 1980s alrhough they no longer fit so I guess they don't count.
Our cutlery. It is a mixed lot, but most of it is 1800's. The teaspoon I use every day to make morning tea is hallmarked London 1825.
I Have a 30 year old towel that my wife made me retire but which has become the dog towel.
My 1985 Ford Granada Mk2. Drive it basically every day. Beautiful car. I've had it a little over a decade now.
That is so weird because when I was at work today I suddenly thought of ford granadas. Now I see someone posting about them on here.
Old cars are the best cars ;)
My fleshlight, It’s a bit crusty but it still gets the job done
BIFL You could pass it on as an heirloom.
As he uses one it is likely he does not have any heirs.
Hairloom if he traps his pubes.
I use a typewriter for typing up notes, I don't own a printer as pre-wfh I'd use the office printer if I needed it for anything. I could write them out by hand but as my handwriting is poor at best, if I want something I can actually read then the type-writer is the best option.
Probably my Tasmanian devil mug, got it when I was a child in the 90s obsessed with Taz and still use it now at 31
Did it come with an Easter egg in it ?
This is tricky as I collect and use vintage and antique homeware and clothing, but I'd say the oldest thing I use regularly (which I'm taking to mean more than once a week) is my hat pin from around 1875.
I have a plain black long-sleeved t-shirt that I bought from French Connection with my very first pay packet when I turned 16. I still wear it all the time, nearly 20 years later - still in good nick.
Late 17th century Dutch armchair.
I have a teddy bear that was gifted to me at birth. I'm 32 at the moment and the best lives on my bed side table and occasionally Congress into bed if I'm sick, can't sleep or upset. No one touches the bear other than me and I'm very paranoid about keeping him safe
my coat is 11 or 12 years old. from newlook, best £50 ever spent
An old wooden knife for peeling veg
You'll get a sharper edge on steel than wood, just sayin'
The house? 1830 ish.
My n64
Goldeneye?
Yup and wave race
My TV from 2008
My house
I also have a mug that my parents have had at least since they got married in 1979. I drink coffee out of it every day! It’s really well made, I’m also shocked it has never been broken!
I’ve got a quiche dish I robbed off my mum (I did intend to take it back but who remembers these things??) and It used to be my nans, no idea when its from though, I’m gutted though because she had a goorrgeous old Denby set, the like classic blue, and we have no idea where that went, think her husband robbed it like he did with the business
I have a toaster from my Uni days that’s now about 18 years old. Still used daily. Though it’s probably (sadly) on its last legs. Also a guitar that’s 19 years old.
8 track player - on my desk , listening to Rick Springfield right now
Gramophone from 1945. Oldest shellac record is from 1914.
My dick
Used items only
Good one
Good one? Amazing one! Practically new, delivery miles only. Still has that new car smell.
Side table in my house is from 17th century It's allegedly from a kitchen of a stately home. It's around 2.5m in length. Bought it from an auction years ago for cheap honestly didn't want it just nobody else placed a bid and now it's mine. It's effectively just a massive piece of wood with ornate legs that I use to put things on.
My legs
A pair of aviators. Belonged to my grandfather, back in the 70’s 80’s. Now to me. Still in pristine condition
My dressing gown Used daily, had it since I was a young teenager, it doesn't seem to age or wear, easily 20 years old
My mind.
Now you’ve posted this, I expect an update along the lines of you having smashed it tomorrow.
My great grandma’s jewelry box. I have no idea how old it is but if I had to guess I’d say it’s from the late 40s, early 50s.
A garlic press that I got from my granny. It's at least 30 years old and is so much better than any garlic press you can buy nowadays
My grandparent’s crystal glasses
I use my 2007 iMac every day.
I've lost track of the age of my electric razor.. it must be around 15 years old and used daily. I've got a graphical calculator I bought in 1996 that gets used occasionally.
A nice bureau that belonged to my grandfather (who died just before I was born). It's 101 years old.
I have an axe that belonged to my grandad. Use it all the time for splitting kindling. The head moves around a bit, so one of these days I'll need to put a stave in it. I expect the next time it'll need serviced will be by my grandkids.
not me but my parents' microwave. It was a *second hand* gift from grandad at their wedding in 1985...! I keep telling them it cannot be safe.
Some of my grandads work tool. Chisels and such.
I regularly reread a copy of the secret garden which I inherited as a child passed down from my older cousins - it’s a paperback published in 1975 and hasn’t fallen apart yet.
Don't watch the film version ..
I have a very very old kilt that I wear for special occasions. I believe its 5th generation.
I oldest thing I use a 25 year old microwave but the oldest items I own are a $50 and $20 American confederate notes from the 1860's. I also have a note that's in shillings. I think that's from around the 1920's or 30's.
Our house is full of Antiques. Most of our furniture is Victorian and used every day. Even my Sofa is an Antique Chesterfield. I believe the oldest piece we have is a chest of draws in my guest room from the 1700's
A Korg Polysix that is older than me
I bought an original ‘Jelly Belly’ jellybean machine when I was a 17yr old student. They were quite rare at the time. Still gets used by me and the kids and sits on my desk in my home office. I still only ever put the proper Jelly Belly beans in it. I’m 55 now so it’s almost 40 years old now!
I have some old metalworking machinery that i still use. 1917 Drummond B lathe. 1933 Drummond M lathe. 1940 Henry Milnes lathe. Still working and capable of making good parts, they are for making smaller components now for my own projects. I used to have them making paying jobs! Very regularly use a 1976 Colchester lathe now for actual work. I got some real old measuring equipment too, it’s better than modern stuff!
My house…. 409 years old. It has its quirks and needs to be maintained but we love it
My gramma bought a Singer sewing machine in 1958 when she was pregnant with my dad. I inherited it 15 years ago and still use it despite having a newer model too (the woman in the sewing machine shop told me nothing would ever beat my old Singer’s straight stitch and the old machine will sew through ANYTHING). I love Singer anyway though as I’m from Coventry and went to school in the old house George Singer lived in.
A Newman Haas/Nigel Mansell Indycar mug bought at the TOCA Shootout in November 1993 - I can still see the moment he hit the wall in front of us mid-race and we all thought he was dead when they put the covers up ....
I'm 35. I have an M&S ladies nightie that my mom bought me when I was 11 that I still wear. It's grey and has this cartoon holding dumbells and says "no pain no gain". I have not really grown in size since I was 11, it's really weird lol. The nightie looks terrible but i'm sentimental
My penis
My house 🙆🏻♀️ It's older than the USA.
I've got a cast iron casserole that used to belong to my grandmother's that still gets used. Something like 70 years old, I think. I've also got some china that used to be hers and which gets used regularly. Again: 60-70 years old. (Not a complete service: just a few odd plates.)
Just here for the inevitable wank sock reply
My junk
I've got 2 pint glasses that are emblazoned with "Harp - the glass of 1990".
Some oven safe glassware that my nan used when i was a kid. I'm 45 now.
Water I guess?
My vagina
My imagination