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?

I also have a Clinique lipstick I bought for my uni friend’s first wedding. She’s now on husband #3. The lipstick is 28 years old and still smells the same.

Shit - I should clear out my makeup bag more often...

I've had my Boots 17 eyeliner sharpener since I was about 13, 32 years ago

my DH if im honest. didnt think he would be "the one" and thought it was just a casual thing. 20 years on hes still here

Radio alarm clock, it's still got glow in the dark stars on it from when I was about 7, am now mid 30's and it still works perfectly!

I got a casio scientific calculator when I got an "A" in my O level maths, it is still working on the original battery 34 years later, I use it several times a day still
when we moved into this house the old washing machine was left ( previous owner had died aged 97 it was an old zanussi made when they were in cream and brown, we decided we would use it rather than taking it out going to dump with it so my newish machine was put in laundry next to it but not plumbed in, the old 1970-80's machine is still working 8 years on; so a total of 40+ years I guess ( I'm not a trune MNer I only do 3-4 loads of washing a week not per day)

My Argos basic kettle. Cost about £5 in 2014 and it's still perfect.

I have my great-grandmother’s butter dish - knocking on 100 years old & still in regular use.

My Mum gave me a potato masher and serving spoon set from my grandfather’s flat clearance when I started uni (early 90s). I eventually slung the masher last year & got one more suitable for my non-stick pans.

I had a Moulinex food processor which I bought from Boots’ kitchen shop sale in 1993 for £40. I replaced it last year because I dropped the lid to the blending bowl & smashed it - couldn’t get a replacement & it wouldn’t work without the lid & bowl clicked together. The motor was still fine.

Just seen RaininSummer’s post about her long-lasting Moulinex food processor. I wonder if ours were the same batch?

My sister bought us a really nice stainless steel saucepan set from John Lewis when we bought our first house 22 years ago! I'm pleased to say they are still going strong and are used most days.... in fact a friend asked recently if I bought new saucepans as they are still so shiny! So my advice to anyone who is thinking of buying a new set is always go for good quality sturdy stainless steel as they really do last and are so easy to clean with hot water and Fairy!

Also my Mum still uses a casserole dish that is over 40 years old!!

A shirt from Primark that cost £3 in the clearance.
Everybody compliments me on it. I like it and I haven't seen anyone else wear the same one when I'm out.
I've had it 6 years now and still like it.

My mum also has a cast iron frying pan that is almost 100 years old.

my radio alarm, must have been bough in about 1980

My tumble dryer!

It's a condenser and we bought it when they first came out, cost us and arm and a leg (literally, I was 18 and it was more than one months wages!). E Rey kept telling us we were daft because it was new technology and wouldn't last.

It's 18yrs old and still works as good as the day we bought it!

It's used daily now but more when DS was a baby as we used towelling nappies.

When my son was 2 years old I bought a pink canvas button through mini skirt, a matching pink denim-style jacket, a pink and white bowling shirt with padded shoulders and a denim blue vest with pink stitching and two tiny pink buttons on the front..
With my permed and highlighted bouffed up hair, shaved in a crescent at the back, huge pink earrings and bangles, blue mascara and Poison perfume I looked a right bugger!
I loved that outfit, it was my post baby treat.
I still have the denim blue vest and I sometimes wear it. I can still feel the pleasure I got when wearing for the first time 36 years ago!

Also my mums Singer sewing machine which is the same age as me, 37!

Ooh and my Dyson hoover is 17yrs old, again everyone told me I was wasting my money.

although it is affectionately known as "Frankenstein" or "Triggers Brush" due to all the parts it's had replaced over the years

My condenser dryer is 18 years old and still going strong too. It’s a Hotpoint. It’s lived in 7 different houses with me (and one shed).

@RaininSummer I too have a moulineux food processor bought for me when my eldest was born. She's just turned 24 and it's still going strong!

My parents got a cooler for drinks for their wedding 34 years ago. We used it all the time when I was a kid I still use it often. It keeps ice frozen for up to 24 hours, even in my hot car in the summer. My parents bought multiple other new, expensive ones since but they don’t work even half as well.

A pair of low heeled leopard print pony skin shoes that I bought from M and S for £15 in 2003.I bought them on a whim when I was on my way to a party and the heel on one of the shoes I was wearing broke.
I've worn them loads, I always get loads of compliments on them, they are super comfortable, despite being quite pointy, and somehow they still look like new. I've had them so long that leopard print is now apparently having another moment and they have come back into fashion!

Dh's microwave that's got to be over 20 years old. It's huge. It actually annoys me that it won't break, I'd rather have a smaller one or one that does a lot more.
It even survived the Great Electrical Disaster of '07 when a mains fault broke a lot of our stuff.
My mum had a blue Kenwood Chef from the 70s. She gave it away and now regrets it. Still worked perfectly.
We have a set of casserole dishes from dh's mum and a set of pans he bought in 1993 to go to uni. All in perfect condition.
Can't seem to make a kettle last more than a year though. I put that down to our very hard water.

Iv just realised my microwave must be about 15 years old it cost about £30 Iv been saying for ages I want a new one because the white plastic round the door has started to yellow partly due to age but also I think because I used to smoke in the kitchen but it works perfectly!

I still have crockery and other bits and pieces that were issued free to my parents in the 1950s by the oil company my DF worked for we were assigned company accommodation, a large and fully kitted out 3-bed bungalow with servants' quarters, in the god-forsaken-- company town.
I also have my mother's original Kenwood food mixer with opaque glass bowl, mincer, blender attachment, K-beater and dough hook from the 1960s. It weighs an absolute ton and seems to be indestructible.

My car...