I've broken a 5 year old plate that cost £5

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5 years ago i bought a cheap dinner set from wilkos for £5. Just to keep us going until I could afford a better set.

5 years of daily use by 6 kids and 2 adults and I've just broken one of the plates. First one to break.

I'm amazed they lasted so long!

Anything you've got that you didnt think would last as long as you thought?

My children. Between my own ignorance and incompetence, the fact that they don't behave like the manuals say they should which means I have to make it up, and the things they do which have me wondering if going to jail for murder wouldn't in fact be a blessing in disguise (I'd like solitary confinement please, as long as you let me have my books. No arguments to referee, no housework to do. No meals to plan and cook for - and no one saying "but I don't like that" - what's not to like?) I am amazed that they, and I, have lasted as long as we have.

My hairdryer. I can't remember how long I've had it, but easily 10+ years. I used it for white noise to help my DD get to sleep when she was a baby 7 years ago. I was so worried that my magic sleep-inducing machine would break that I bought a replacement hairdryer. It's still in its box in a cupboard, having not been needed yet.

Boots own brand travel hairdryer, about £8. Bought it years ago and it's still going strong.

I have a set of three stacking stainless steel bowls which have been used almost daily for 44 years.....

I have had my moulinex food processor for about 25 years. They don't make them like that anymore I suspect. Also my iron and board set which was a free gift from Littlewoods catalogue in 1985; this longevity may well be due to its scant use.

My mum recently gave me a huge roll of paper for my son to paint on.
She was given it by someone on a British army base in Germany approx 33 years ago. She must have moved house about 10 times since then.... she really doesn't like wasting things 🙈

Younger daughter was born in 1984, MIL bought me a green bucket. Still got it, still use it.
MIL long dead...

Plates and bowls from Boots, 41 years ago, still in use. It's surprising how much smaller dinner plates were then, about the size of a breakfast plate now. I threw away the cups and saucers 20 years ago as we didn't use them, but nothing has ever chipped or cracked.

I've had that sort of thing too, stuff I thought wouldn't last long but seemed to go on forever.

Terribly sad when a bit is eventually broken, I don't know why but it is!

I have two chests of drawers in my bedroom that I acquired aged 13 or 14, I’m now 46. They were new then, not sturdy antiques. Possibly Habitat, so decent quality, but I didn’t expect to be using them more than 30 years later. The small one was designed to go under a dressing table which underwent one house move too many, but the drawers themselves are solid.

I got a Boots hairdryer when I was about 12. It finally gave up when I was 40! I also still use my late grandmother’s enamel bread bin, stamped 1950 on the bottom. I remember it always sitting in her pantry, and she gave it to me when I left home to go to university.

It's strange too how some everyday things get handed down in families. My DD has now taken over my button tin that used to belong to my mother. Some of the buttons are over a hundred years old.

I immediately thought of my Boots hairdryer as well. I purchased it just before I left my part time job at Boot (therefore using my discount!) 23 years ago, and it’s still,going strong.

My dm still uses the same serving bowls we had as kids.

Fetchez....Its a Hotpoint from when they did the beige colour, Brilliant at the time though dont think I would buy one now. Hotpoint are now on my banned list after I spent three days on the phone trying to get them to come out to my washer.

I had an insurance assessor and another mechanic guy and they took one look and said not to get rid of it

I've got pans that I bought when I was a student over 30 years ago. I went round to my mum and dad's for dinner a few weeks ago. They used some serving dishes that they'd been given as wedding presents over 50 years ago.

My DH had a toasted sandwich maker that was his mums (she passed away when he was 18).... we think it was around 30 years old before it gave up the ghost. He was genuinely gutted and we've not replaced it .

We have a 6 bulb chandelier type light. 5 of the bulbs went soon after we moved here (about 9 years ago) but as its very high up I thought I'd wait until the last one went and change them all at once.

Still waiting ......

A microwave that I got for nothing from Freeshare 11 years ago. It’s a very early model, probably 1980s and still working fine apart from the light!

I'm down to my last Woolworths wine glass. It's my favourite and I'll be devastated when it goes!

Argos white basics toaster 4 slice had it since I left home 8 years ago. Still perfect

A skirt and some jeans from when I was 15 - I still wear both occasionally! (I'm 33).

We have a Wilko plate set that's about 25 years old and most of it is still left. There have been some breakages along the way, but that's more to do with ham fistedness than poor quality.

We also have an Ikea set that's about 15 years old, couple of chipped plates but they were very cheap too.

I think expensive plates are no more durable or useful as plates, just sometimes nicer, and I have learned this the hard way as I splashed out on a Denby set in the last Black Friday sale, still eye wateringly expensive compared with our existing crockery, and they're already scratched and faded, which is really disappointing, and the shape means that they take up far too much room in the dishwasher. I wish I had complained a few months ago because I would probably have been able to send them back for a refund.

I still use the calculator I got for my GCSEs. I'm 45 so it's probably getting on for 30 years old.

Morphy Richards Microwave. Dm bought it in 1994 when the cooker broke. Still going strong.

We still use a mechanical bread cutter DH's gran bought in the late fifties.