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What Is The Oldest Item You Still Use?

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  • #32
    jiltloop
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    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 :D


  • #33
    Tombo2001
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    Hotmail account, still use it. 1998.

    Its the best free 'product' I ever got.


  • #34
    Graces7
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    Day Lewin wrote: »
    My mother's old clothes-horse. Wooden. Made in about 1950. Still in regular use fro drying clothes overnight!
    Attachment not found.

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


  • #35
    Day Lewin
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    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.


  • #36
    Wibbs
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    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.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • #37
    Chris_Heilong
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    1992 Sega Megadrive.


  • #38
    Crock Rock
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    My willy


  • #39
    whisky_galore
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    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.


  • #40
    banie01
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    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

    :D

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


  • #41
    BeerWolf
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    Water. Been around since well before Dinosaurs.

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


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #43
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    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.


  • #44
    Church on Tuesday
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    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 :D


  • #45
    colm_mcm
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    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.


  • #46
    Plumbthedepths
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    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... ;-)


  • #47
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭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...

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #48
    SEPT 23 1989
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    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


  • #49
    fineso.mom
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    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.


  • #50
    Beasty
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    My hands have continued working well for pretty much the whole of my life....


  • #51
    holystungun9
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    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.


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  • #52
    Galwayguy35
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    Clock radio, 23 years old and still going good.


  • #53
    dresden8
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    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Water. Been around since well before Dinosaurs.

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

    Alcohol is fresh yeast piss.

    Just sayin........


  • #54
    Anesthetize
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    A Toshiba turntable, Toshiba stereo amplifier, and Wharfedale speakers. All from the late 70's and still sounding good.


  • #55
    Sonny noggs
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    I have a spoon from the 1600’s that I use on a daily basis.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
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    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    I have a spoon from the 1600’s that I use on a daily basis.

    I forgot about spoons, I've a bit of a collection going on. My oldest isn't as old as yours, it dates around 1780, though I've a salt spoon I suspect is a little older.


  • #57
    lbc2019
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    water, its been recycled for millions of years


  • #58
    rainbowdrop
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    I still regularly use the metal pencil sharpener that I got starting secondary school back in 1989... 30 years ago!!! I keep it in my make up case, only use it to sharpen my eyeliner pencil......

    I also own a sugan stool that was left to me by my gran-uncle when he died 20years ago (aged 83)... He told me HIS father hand-made it for him when he was a small child, so it's over a hundred years old. It still gets used regularly!


  • #59
    Beasty
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    lbc2019 wrote: »
    water, its been recycled for millions of years
    We're all products of the Big Bang!


  • #60
    Beasty
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    i do have a 200 year old sovereign which is still legal tender (in the UK)

    Not planning on spending it any time soon though


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  • #61
    looksee
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    I needed an ironing board when we moved to Kenya in 1971, so I got a local man to make me one. This wooden ironing board has been in constant use ever since. It is solid, efficient and nice to use, and my daughter has put in a claim for it when I am gone...

    I inherited my mum's button tin which has buttons I remember from my childhood, a few Victorian mourning buttons, some army buttons and clasps and quite a lot of glove buttons that came from her next door neighbour who had lived in the adjoining house to my mother. They were (once) called 'glover's cottages' and were a row of fairly ordinary terraced houses in the English midlands. This lady was in her 90s and had lived in the house all her life, since about 1900, and her family were indeed, glovers. So the buttons would be well over a hundred years old. Every now and again I find a use for one or two of them.


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