What item have you owned the longest?

alchemist33

I have a large, plastic, brown bowl, so old that you could probably call it Tupperware. I used it for breakfast cereal when in secondary school, brought it to college where it doubled as a mixing bowl for pancakes, and then brought it to four different counties with work, and for over twenty years while married. It's survived umpteen threats to be left "accidentally" on a lit hob by my wife. It also has the word "Sammy" scratched into it, indicating that me or my brother once used it as a dog bowl.
It has lasted, proud and useful, in my life for at least 35 years and possibly longer, and I still use it for breakfast or to make pancakes and potato cakes.
So what item have you owned for the longest time?

kenmc

I have a leatherman knife I bought 23 years ago, regularly used, still as good as the day I bought it

In the late 16th Century I was travelling through the muddy uplands of the Ural Mountains on my to China, when I stopped in a house that belonged to a watchmaker's sister. I had a large sprig of parsley sticking out of my back pocket as was the fashion at the time. Anyway, she gave me a watch as a gift when I left the next morning because she had no coins or other items of value and I've carried that watch with me pretty much ever since.

iamwhoiam

I use a measuring jug daily that was for mixing baby formula in . Said baby is now 40 .

SeaFields

A teddy bear given to me the day I was born although my toddler has claimed ownership of it now

NickNickleby

First date with now Mrs Nickleby. 2nd August 1974. To show off, I got one of those instant black and white photos on O'Connell St. The photo is upstairs in a scrapbook.

You may now close the thread :pac::pac::pac:

Ok no..huh...

I have an illuminous yellow t-shirt with my name printed on the back and a punk rocker duck giving the middle finger on the front that I got when I was around 6 or 7.

My shame.

Swaine

Birth cert.

XsApollo

I have a Levi’s belt I still wear regularly , 25 years old or thereabouts

Wheety

My willy. Have had it more or less since I was born.

godtabh

Wheety wrote: »

My willy. Have had it more or less since I was born.

One careful owner?

Wheety

godtabh wrote: »

One careful owner?

Lots of mileage but serviced every day

godtabh

godtabh wrote: »

One careful owner?

Serviced 4 times a day you’d imagine. Compact model.

Strumms

SeaFields wrote: »

A teddy bear given to me the day I was born although my toddler has claimed ownership of it now

There is a box with a load of my old toys somewhere.

Including a stuffed dog, which I was given by the best friends of my parents around the time I was born... it’s name is ‘doggy’... there is a stuffed alien too, called Alan somewhere, no arms left....

Galwayguy35

A Quartz pen given to me by an uncle back in 1982, still writes perfectly nearly 40 years later.

DMcL1971

I still use, on a regular basis, the scientific calculator I bought for school in 1986

the beer revolu

I have a guitar that's older than me and I have it since around 91.

the beer revolu

My stereo speakers which I use daily were bought for the family in around 1980.

corner of hells

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I use a measuring jug daily that was for mixing baby formula in . Said baby is now 40 .

Thats pretty impressive, imagine mixing up a baby in a jug.

griffin100

Yamaha electric guitar I bought in 1989. Was used daily for years and left in my parents house when I moved out for the last time. I found it years later in a shed in a bit if a state and rescued it. It was living in my attic when as a surprise my wife had it repaired / restored for me last year. Now my son gets to use it which makes me very happy.

Notmything

SeaFields wrote: »

A teddy bear given to me the day I was born although my toddler has claimed ownership of it now

Same, 45 years old, has been restitched a few times.

Also have a leather man I bought in the Lebanon in 1995 that's still soldiering on.

I keep my sewing and bits n bobs in an old catering size margarine tub that was my mams, it's pushing 50years at this stage.

I also have a photo of my nan, taken on her 7th birthday in 1937.

the beer revolu

I have a mug from when I was about 5 and a womble's pillowcase from a similar time. I think the pillowcase is on our bed as an under pillowcase atm.
I'm 51 now.

I have lots of kitchen bits that are regularly used that date back to my childhood.

I have a belt that I wear most of the time since around 1980, the only difference is the hole the buckle uses.
in 1980it was the innermost, now it's the outermost

the beer revolu

My keys have a washer on one of the rings.
I picked up this washer while waiting for my Leaving Cert Irish oral exam in 1987 and put it on my keyring.
I've never lost my keys in that time!

byhookorbycrook

40 year old Berney’s saddle.It has had a few minor repairs down the years but is pretty much perfect .

Trekker09

I have a manual coffee grinder that belonged to my parents who bought it in Algeria well before I was born. It was my fave 'toy' as it could do a passable turn as a helicopter, wind up phone or whatever was going through my head at the time. It now takes pride of place on a shelf in my kitchen.

bottlebrush

A bath towel tucked away in the back of the hot press that I bought in 1982 when I was going on my first holiday.

Filmer Paradise

House key for the home place.

Was given it as a teenager about 40 years ago.

Still on my keyring after all those years.

gogo

DMcL1971 wrote: »

I still use, on a regular basis, the scientific calculator I bought for school in 1986

So do I, not as old as yours, min is from the mid 90s... still going strong, think I’ve only done one battery change in that time. Use it most days in work, Sharp model, made to last!

biko

My underwear.

the beer revolu

biko wrote: »

My underwear.

Jokes aside, I have some m&s trunks that are over 20 years old that I still wear. They just won't die!

bnt

I have an electrical multimeter that I've had since 1987, which still works great. It's a "Lucky Goldstar" brand, the company now known as LG.

CelticRambler

Oooh, I have loads of stuff from my childhood years ... Probably the thing most in use is my 48-bass accordion. Can't remember what age I was when I first went to classes, but I was good enough in 1980 for my parents to buy me a bigger, 120-bass model (for which I know the date, because we were in Australia at the time and my parents obviously considered it and me a good enough investment to ship back to Dublin! :pac: ) Anyway, I still have both, but the smaller one is sitting over there on the armchair waiting for me to play a few tunes this evening.

Heart Break Kid

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Serviced 4 times a day you’d imagine. Compact model.

It’s the sport model, super quick

Greyfox

My Nintendo DS. Dont use it as have a switch but its not worth throwing out or selling

Gregor Samsa

I've a teddy from the day I was born (47 years ago). My eldest daughter has it now.

I bought this chocolate bar very late one night in a 24 hour shop on Dorset Street in 1995. I bought it because it had a dinosaur with a bowler hat called Mr. Henry. It has "Mr Henry's Animal Quiz" on the back, but both the question and answer are in Russian, however the address on the side is from the UK. The bar inside appeared to be identical to a Penguin bar.

I never opened it. I had planned on encasing it in resin to preserve it, but never got around to it. One day last year, I found that one of my 7 year old daughters had opened it and took a bite out of it.

bonzodog2

I have a cheesegrater I've had for 40+ years, and a metallised plastic "survival blanket" for maybe 50. Probably a couple of old spanners for about the same.
Also a plain steel frying pan for 40+

.anon.

A 1:64 scale model London Routemaster bus, identical to this one, but more battered and scratched:



My parents bought it for me the day my sister was born, 37 years ago, to keep me quiet and occupied while everyone was fawning over the new baby. It was just another toy, thrown into a massive box of cars for the next decade. It probably spent another decade in the attic, before somehow escaping being disposed of alongside my other toy cars. It never had any major sentimental value until I noticed that it always seems to reappear whenever I move house. So for the last few years, I've kept it on the desk where I do most of my writing. During moments of boredom, or when I'm deep in thought, I idly roll it from one side of the desk to the other.

NSAman

A gold miraculous medal my grandmother bought me when I was born 50+ years ago, still hangs on the chain around my neck.

Lost it at a petrol pump one day in Ireland on holiday, spent 3 hours looking for it and found it.

It’s probably worth little monetarily but to me is priceless.

Will never be taken off.

Hyperbollix

Box of condoms I bought for a lads holiday in the summer of 2012..............








The lads just weren't as promiscuous as I'd hoped.

jester77

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I use a measuring jug daily that was for mixing baby formula in . Said baby is now 40 .

Might be time to move them onto solids.

.anon.

corner of hells wrote: »

Thats pretty impressive, imagine mixing up a baby in a jug.

Not that impressive. You put them in a blender first.

NSAman

Hyperbollix wrote: »

Box of condoms I bought for a lads holiday in the summer of 2012..............


The lads just weren't as promiscuous as I'd hoped.

You must have been very frustrated with the lads?

Lewis_Benson

One of my guitars.
A Jackson Fusion.

Fiery mutant

My father carved a spatula from a single block of wood when he got married aged 23. It’s still in use today, he’s now 69.

Doublebusy

A completed 1998 merlin premier league sticker book

Pauliedragon

I have jocks that are probably 15 years old or so.

monkeysnapper

As a few others on here..... mine is a Teddy my Nan nitted for me before I was born in 1975 ....

I remember her laughing every time I brought it when visiting that it was the only thing she ever knitted and she felt she was awful nitter.

Myself and my wife got married in 2008 and I brought feller in my pocket to church as I was very close to my nan ..... my mother got very imotional when I showed her feller at church.

These days he lives in my 11 year old daughters room and she totally loves him because of his history... she totally gets it.

Hopefully he will live on for as long as he can.

wexandproud

have a board game '' escape from colditz'' , bought in '75 and apart from slight damage to the box its still in great condition

Sgt Hartman

A Children's Encyclopedia that I got back in 1986. It has a lot of very un-PC descriptions of various races and nationalities that would definitely not be allowed now.