What Is The Oldest Item You Still Use?

JupiterKid

So AHers, what is the oldest item do you have in your possession? -

It can be a piece of furniture, a vehicle, a gadget, appliance, book, etc .... Basically a family heirloom, a gift from a friend/sibling or something bought from an antique/salvage shop.

(and before anyone posts it up - NOT yer wanger or box please!)

I have my Great-grandfather’s writing bureau which is a valued heirloom and dates from circa 1887 when he was a student at university - he was born in 1865 and was 50 when my grandmother was born in 1915. It is beautifully crafted from walnut and has a secret compartment but I only use it to store some correspondence and documents. I would never dream of using it as a desk.

Silver teapot, coffee pot, jug and sugar bowl which was, I believe, a wedding present to my parents in 1967.

Morphy Richards electric kettle which my late father bought in 1994 or thereabouts (I was in college at the time) and is still working perfectly a quarter of a century later. No way would even a pricier kettle bought new now still be working in 2044!!

dennyire

in before Berties Horse

biko

Herself

Autecher

Not really an item but I have an old Oliver Kahn goalkeeper jersey since about the age of 12 that I still have now 24 years later. It's like a padded jumper really but it was so oversized on me when I was younger and it is still kind of oversized on me now! It's my go to lazing about the house clothing item along with sweat pants. I feckin' love it!

gibgodsman

A Liverpool pillow case I have had since I was 11, I am now 25

razorblunt

A calculator my aunt gave me as an Xmas present when I was 7.
Still going strong now.

weldoninhio

My arms and legs. I've had them since I was born.

Greyfox

My oldest possession is my nintendo DS, definitely one of the best purchases I ever made

Day Lewin

My mother's old clothes-horse. Wooden. Made in about 1950. Still in regular use fro drying clothes overnight!
clozhorse.jpg

banie01

Day Lewin wrote: »

My mother's old clothes-horse. Wooden. Made in about 1950. Still in regular use fro drying clothes overnight!
clozhorse.jpg

My dishwasher.

It's 43 years old and still going strong!


Wait,
Dammit! Wrong pronoun!
She She's 43 now! :pac:

Conchir

I've a couple of old Polaroid cameras. One is this 340 Land Camera, from 1969 I think. The film this camera uses is no longer produced so I use it very rarely, I have 2 packs of film left, saved in storage for special occasions.



Then I've got a Polaroid SX-70 from 1977 which I use pretty regularly, that film is still available.

Beanntraigheach

I have a copy of 'Vallancey's Irish Grammar' published in 1782.

It bears the signature of its original owner, one Philip Griffin Warnford, who likely died about two centuries ago, with the date Sept. 4th 1782 - The War of Independence was ongoing in America, The French Revolution was seven years in the future, and the Holy Roman Empire still existed.

DellyBelly

Probably my toothbrush. Have had it years. Probably need to get a new one but I really like it.

fergiesfolly

A bottle opener on a keyring I bought in Salthill in the late 80s. We were watching the Salthill 5 a sides and the local offie had a special on bottles( we normally bought cans). Bought a couple of cases, got back to the park and nobody had a bottle opener. So off I went to find the cheapest opener known to man in a tourist shop. Still on my keyring, still gets used at parties. And yes I still tell that story everytime someone asks to use it.#boringoldfartstories

Utter Consternation

I've an old lump hammer that i've had for donkeys years.

hitemfrank

I've a fair few old straight razors. The oldest one I can work out a definite manufacture period is from between 1865 and 1882.

I may have older but can't really work out dates for them accurately

I have had the same broom for thirty years.

I have changed the handle twice and the head five times, but it is still going strong.

Deebles McBeebles

Sega Megadrive, still working perfectly. Must be from the mid-90's I would guess.

gerrybbadd

Pair of leather Ecco shoes my mother bought me for my 18th birthday.

I was 36 last week. They're as good today as they were when bought.

gozunda

banie01 wrote: »

My dishwasher.

It's 43 years old and still going strong!


Wait,
Dammit! Wrong pronoun!
She She's 43 now! :pac:

See:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=110846852&postcount=7674

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=110847292&postcount=7675

ToddyDoody

It could well be my pps card. The corner has cracked off its so beat.

Paddy Cow

I still have a purple rabbit teddy that I won in fourth class. I also have a trophy I won with my dog Larky in a dog show when I was 12. It's all tarnished and crappy looking but I can't throw it away She was a beautiful dog - a Norwegian Elkhound. We might have placed higher in the show but right when the judges were looking at us, she ran forward and started sniffing the next dog's butt :pac:

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

My mother has a very roughly hewn metal cross that she inherited from her father, who got it from a monk. Story is it dates from the Penal Law era but that might not be true but it was old when he got it in the 30s.

Also. I have a mug that I got in 2004. It's a big roundy one. At some point around 2010 I noticed "wow I've had this without breaking it for a good while" ( I remember specifically when I got it because it was a gift for a special occasion). It's been through college houseshares where the structural integrity of the building barely survived, upwards of a dozen moves and just generally fifteen years of my clumsy bullsh1t. If I can make it through to the middle of 2020 I'll have had that fcuking mug for more than half my life. There's a superstitious part of me that wants to pack it away til then but that feels like cheating.

Trigger Happy

Aegir wrote: »

I have had the same broom for thirty years.

I have changed the handle twice and the head five times, but it is still going strong.

Are you me?!

Day Lewin

Day Lewin wrote: »

My mother's old clothes-horse. Wooden. Made in about 1950. Still in regular use fro drying clothes overnight!
clozhorse.jpg

but no!

My oldest sewing machine dates from the early 1920's.
I used it for an actual small sewing project within the last year.
Almost 100yrs old, still working :-)

Arghus

These days, probably Boards.ie.

Carry

A beautiful Baltic amber pendant I inherited from my mother who had it since she was a young woman.
The amber itself is about 55 million years old. Beat that.:D

iamwhoiam

An SMA measuring jug used for making babies bottles . Baby is now 40 ! I still
use it a lot

the_pen_turner

Carry wrote: »

A beautiful Baltic amber pendant I inherited from my mother who had it since she was a young woman.
The amber itself is about 55 million years old. Beat that.:D

i have a glass of water in front of me. google tells me the water is 4.6 billion years old

jim o doom

The oldest part of my house was built in 1762, so that by far.

After that my dads watch which he left me, but it's only like 30 odd years old, and a couple tshirt I have since I was 16 which are now 22 years old.

gozunda

Carry wrote: »

A beautiful Baltic amber pendant I inherited from my mother who had it since she was a young woman.
The amber itself is about 55 million years old. Beat that.:D

No problem. I walk on a bit of the planet everyday, which came into existence around 4.5 billion years. My uncle had it before I did.

jiltloop

Aegir wrote: »

I have had the same broom for thirty years.

I have changed the handle twice and the head five times, but it is still going strong.

I like how one of the people who thanked your post is called Trigger Happy

Tombo2001

Hotmail account, still use it. 1998.

Its the best free 'product' I ever got.

Graces7

Day Lewin wrote: »

My mother's old clothes-horse. Wooden. Made in about 1950. Still in regular use fro drying clothes overnight!
clozhorse.jpg

That takes me back to my childhood! it got left open hiding the fireplace when we went to bed.

Day Lewin

Graces7 wrote: »

That takes me back to my childhood! it got left open hiding the fireplace when we went to bed.

AND it doubles, even trebles! as an excellent puppet theatre, fort, or screen.

Wibbs

Though I'm knee deep in stuff some of which dates back hundreds of millions of years they're just curios, of the things in use, my tumble drier from 1975 would be in regular use. My car's from the 90's and still going strong. Probably the oldest things I still use would be wristwatches from 1916 and 1912.

Chris_Heilong

1992 Sega Megadrive.

Crock Rock

My willy

whisky_galore

Bicycle from mid 1930s.
Easy to repair, no weird fixings that need special tools to take apart. Parts still supplied. Tough as old boots and will be there long after your carbon fibre framed bikes get skipped.

banie01

gozunda wrote: »

See:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=110846852&postcount=7674

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=110847292&postcount=7675

That's a newer model...
I've heard those can be a bit temperamental alright

BeerWolf

Water. Been around since well before Dinosaurs.

Speaking of which, we've been drinking dino piss all this time.

I have an old windy-uppy alarm clock from the 1970's, it has the most melodious tick-tock ever and I use it for travelling as a back up to the phone and I have a pooja cabinet that's about 140 years old that was commissioned by my great-grandfather, there isn't a nail or screw in the thing, the marquetry is still intact and lacquer still glossy and even, though it has never been refinished.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I posted this in the old tech thread but it applies here too.

I have an old carpenter's wooden mallet that has been passed down from my grandfather and dates to at least the 1890s when it was given to him, as an apprentice, by a carpenter who was retiring. I use it a couple of times a year.

Simple technology - a wooded hammer.

Church on Tuesday

A book on Pre- History my parents got me when I was a kid from 1999. I have it dated in my child writing which is quite different to the scrawl I have now.

PS1 from same year and still works fine, not much of a gamer so it's just on a shelf.

A DVD player from 2004.

A yellow Celtic football shirt from 2002. My first shirt ever.

A bass drum pedal from 2005 which has been used and abused and still going strong.

Various other bits and bobs, most over twenty years old. I'm a bit of a collector/hoarder

colm_mcm

I still have the same router (power tool) that I bought 18 years ago, it’s probably the only power tool (apart from a sander that never really got used) that’s survived my attempts to kill it.

Plumbthedepths

Aegir wrote:

I have had the same broom for thirty years.

Classic

Aegir wrote:

I have changed the handle twice and the head five times, but it is still going strong.

Trigger... ;-)

Wibbs

I forgot about furniture and that. I've a few art deco and nouveau bits and bobs, but the oldest would be an oak Jacobean side table. Like Candie's cabinet no nails or screws, held together with wooden pegs*. I've also a wooden ammunition case for rounds used in ww2 Stuka anti tank aircraft from 1943. Swords into ploughshares as it were. I use that as a coffee/laptop table(and wine box as it fits bottles to a tee). Cos me.




*originally three drawers wide, now down to two, cut down in the 19th century to fit smaller houses. If it was in original state it would be worth a fair few grand, but then it wouldn't fit in my bedroom so...

SEPT 23 1989

A clock radio

After retirement it’s been through many painting expeditions in many houses over the years

Still steadfastly flashing a red digital 12.00

fineso.mom

A food processor that was my mother's. She bought it in the mid 80's. It's got a brown base and cream bowl. Works perfectly.
Also a cotton dressing gown that was hers, late 80's,so its 30 years old. Use it in summer as its lovely and light.

Beasty

My hands have continued working well for pretty much the whole of my life....

holystungun9

My decks! Technics 1210s. I got them 23 years ago and was on them last night for about an hour. £400 each at that time which was a chunk of money for me.