What do you own that works since 20 yrs ago??

[Doonewanker]

A few of you may have had a DH/DP since then.

Not me, quite. But it struck me last night that my favourite fluffy Christy bath towel is now 20 yrs old.

So is a watch I wear every day that my parents bought me.

A couple of baking trays too.

They've stood the test of time.

Can you tell me what I need to add to my indestructible domestic list?

Many thanks.

I've had my Casio digital alarm clock since 1981 and she's woken me up most mornings since then. She did conk out briefly in 1994 but it was just a matter of cleaning the insides and the battery terminals to bring her back to life. She plays an electronic excerpt from Mozart's 40th symphony or a simple beeping.

I have towels bought for me from M&S in 1972.

Like others, I have a sewing machine which is around 35 years old, lots of bedlinen and towels which were wedding presents, so similar age to the sewing machine. All still in good condition and perfectly usable. We also have a complete dinner service and tea set which were wedding gifts. Too good for everyday use, but definitely in use for special occasions and always at Christmas.
Probably the older thing that springs to mind is a wooden chair. It belonged to my great grandad and, according to my mum, was bought at least 65 years ago. She inherited it and have it to me for dc1's nursery 30 years ago. I have it a coat of paint and made a cushion for the seat. I now use it at my computer table.

I have a Sony dream machine clock radio I got in 1998. Still works! I have a work colleague younger than that radio!

Fridge, some of my boots. The TV. I'm poor so I mend things if they break. Currently, I have no cooker and use the hob and a tabletop micro-browner thingy. Combi oven, that's it. It's like camping, only worse.

Ooooh you meant heirlooms. Nope. Jack shit heirlooms.

My pencil case. I bought it when i was 10 for going into p7. It’s one of those cylinder shaped ones. It’s black patent leather with 3 turquoise straps around it each with a clamp on one end (like on braces) and a ring on the other to close it. It saw me through p7 and all the way through secondary school. My friends loved sitting opening and closing the clamps. Teachers used to confiscate it because it was so distracting anyway, I still have it 22 years later and all the clamps still work. It looks like new on the outside. Inside is covered in ink and tippex.

I still have my old bedside clock radio that I got for Christmas aged 16. I'm now 51. It mostly still works, although the 'clock set' button has packed up so the only way to set the time is to turn it off and back on at precisely midnight.

Washing machine and fridge freezer 18 years old
Tumble dryer 22 years old (but squeaks)
Grandmother 1's magimix thing 49 years old
Her sewing machine is almost 55 years old
Grandmother 2's sewing machine has to be 65 years old and going strong.

A set of prestige pans used everyday and coming up to 18 years old. My old battered Levi's jacket from 22 years ago. I still wear it occasionally

I've got my great grandmothers mixing bowl, which must be over 100 years old as she gave it to my granny when she got married in the 1930s...
A couple of glasses which were my parents' engagement presents from 1962
My old elephant teddy from 1973
A stripey hand towel which was my baby towel from 1972
My daughter has a load of my old books from the late 1970s/ early 1980s
My brothers' old Hornby train set - going strong

My babyliss crimper from sometime in the 80s!

Sorry if someone else has said this first l, but I've got a wide tooth comb for detangling wet hair that came free with Just Seventeen magazine.
It's lived in 3 countries and probably been on 20 odd holidays with me. I reckon I got it around 1994/95 

I own my mum’s old Kenwood hand mixer which I remember using as a child back in the 70s. It still makes the same funny smell, but it still works. It will no doubt outlive us both.

Flipflops from H&M in Paris, bought for 10f in summer '98, worn every summer since.

I have my Wombles book which was & still is treasured possession from the 70's. I recently played a friends Donkey Kong Jnr which I think must date from 1980 or thereabouts.

My le creuset set.
My kirby vuccuum.
A hairdryer.

@TheCatWhisper we also have a 27 year old Technics hifi. Ours is separated, just replaced the turntable, all else still going strong. I can plug my phone in, just have a lead the goes from the headphone jack to aux in! We have tons of vinyl that over 20 years old. Also

Denby dinner service we got for our wedding, in the days when it was a paper wedding list and people got you 4 bowls or a teapot. I used to save it for best, it's now used daily.

Glasses, cutlery and pan from our wedding.

Cheese grater from when I went to uni in the 80s

DVD player

Solid pine bookshelves and drawers we bought for our first house in 1997.

I think there may be a liqueur in our cupboard we brought in duty free on our honeymoon in 1996 thinking we'd be sophisticated and make cocktails 🤣

I have my MILs Kenwood Chef - around 45 years old

My JVC mini sound system. Now co-opted to work as an amp between our computer and TV, but still works.
Ds1 asked what the tape deck was recently.
My hair straighteners are coming up to the big 20. They have cuticle smoothing brushes on them and work really well.
DH's microwave, which is probably close to 30. I wish the huge great thing would die, but it wont.
I'd like to give an honourable mention to my old boiler which was fitted in this house at some point in the 80's. It did work, but it would wake us up at 6am with its dawn chorus of "ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-BOING" as it got going.
We bid it farewell this year and I am enjoying many things about our new boiler, namely cheaper gas bills. But the smart thermostat is cool. I hope it lasts as long as the old one.

Just remembered, I also have a few (not especially valuable) pieces of jewellery. They were gifts given to my mum by my dad before they were married. One of them is a pretty necklace, which I wear occasionally (too frightened of damaging it to wear more often), it was the first thing my dad ever bought my mum, for her 18th birthday - she's now 80.

Ah Kenwood Chefs. I had DH’s grandma’s until about 5 years ago when it spectacularly burst into flames. Dh’s Grandmas died in 1985. MIL dated the Kenwood to about 1965.

Oven
Combi microwave
2 Aqualisa showers
Kenwood Chef that was a wedding present in the 70s - did have to get it repaired a few yrs ago but still miles cheaper than a new one.
Several Sony cubes!

Bread board that was my mother's - at least 60 years old
Wooden spoon ditto - couldn't bear to chuck it when clearing her house - she'd had it for ever, worn down on one side from all the use.
Mason Cash mixing bowl that was MiL's - again many decades old..

Pyrex casserole dish from 1973.
Milk jug and meat plate ditto
Viners cutlery set used every day since 1973
Much more expensive cutlery set which belonged to in laws bought 1976 used every Sunday.
Table and chairs bought 1985, in a sale. Will probably see us out.
John Lewis towels bought for D D to take to University in 1994 (now used by dog).

Iron that's at least 10 yrs old. Not much used though