How Old Is Stuff You Use?

[Eve]

I was just thinking this morning that I still use the radio, alarm clock and large rucksack I had for going to university back in 1997. Probably after having the same Christmas stocking that my mum bought me for my first Christmas back in 1978.

I've had no reason to change them as they are still ok.

How old is some of the stuff you still use regularly?

[NoMercy]

My Nan always promised me the camphor wood chest she bought out in Hong Kong, where my mother was born. However, the avaricious aunt swiped it for her son...

[sara3]

I've just dried my hair with my 25+ yrs old hair-dryer and diffuser.

my cooker is the one I had in my first flat, in 1990.

I still have my Levi's from my teenage years, and I can get them on! I can't do them up, but I can get them on :o)

[stewey]

I have a treadle type sewing machine that was made in 1867. The only reason it doesn't work is that the belt is broken.

[boxtops]

Ooh yes, I've got books - some are my parents' school books, dating from about 1920.... and a set of Girls' Best Books, that my grandma gave me in 1954.

[ChillDoubt]

A mahogany coffee table I made in school some 33 years ago.
An alarm clock I bought in Germany in 1988.

[sandyRoe]

I have a cast iron corkscrew that might be Victorian. Don't use it as much now as I once did.
My fishing rod and reel are both over 50 years old.

[cupid04]

Me and mr.c still have an old telly [it is colour, I hasten to add]. Why buy a new one if the old one still works is my motto!

[craft1948]

I have my Prayer Book which I was given at Junior school, which is 56 years old..................

[DaisyNonna]

My rollimg pin will be 43 next year and still in regular use.

[cupid04]

I bet you read it religiously everyday craft! Do share this in r&s!!xx

[craft1948]

No thanks cupid..................I don't like the natives.

[sherrardk]

I still have one of the dishes I used for the practical of my O level Home Economics (well, I'm not using it at present as it is full of bits of a Lego).

[Bluestone]

I have an old Chesterfield chair, that I guess is about 50/60 years old. I use that every single day.
The oldest thing I have is a mounted stags head, which is Victorian.
Although I don't exactly "use" him, he's currently wearing a Santa hat... which is kind of the same thing! :-)

[dickythecook]

My hairbrush, a Mason & Pearson has been in use daily for 41years. 42 next april 14th. If I am spared.

[stewey]

Just in case some strange looking German airplanes are lurking around, I have quick access to my "The Aircraft Recognition Manual" by G.H. Gibbs-Smith published in 1944:)

[mccfluff]

lol jenna, i dind;t think if books, my copy of lotr is a lot older than me, the price is in shillings

[DSJ]

My Carmen Rollers were bought in Australia in 1969. They have recently been checked & given a clean bill of health.