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What Is The Oldest Item You Still Use?

  • 01-08-2019 12:11PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭


    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!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭dennyire


    in before Berties Horse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Herself


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭gibgodsman


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭Greyfox


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,337 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭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.

    3679311362_c4bc32b427.jpg

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

    tan-alpha-1.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,673 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭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


  • Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭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

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭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 :o 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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,286 ✭✭✭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?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭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 :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,401 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    These days, probably Boards.ie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,452 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭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.

    :D:D


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