What items have you had for years that are still servicable/in daily use?

[longearedbat]

When I first left home and moved into rented furnished accomodation I bought a set of tins, one of which was a tea caddy. That caddy has been in daily use since, and that is coming on for 40 years. At the same time I also bought some kitchen utensils. The potato masher is still going! Every time I use it I idly wonder how many tons of potatoes I have mashed with it over the years.
What have you got that has lasted well? Not necessarily kitchen stuff, just anything.

I remember when you could have things like toasters and kettles repaired.

Nowadays you just buy a new one.

I use my clock radio alarm each day, that I've been using since the end of the 1970s.

Loads of stuff in my kitchen that was given me 2nd hand when I bought my first home in 1990.

My Casio digital alarm clock which was a Christmas present in 1981. It briefly stopped working after thirteen years but it only needed the battery terminals cleaning, which I did. Since then, it has been by my side every night, home and abroad.

My grandmother got a set of Prestige kitchen implements ( the big cooking tools) when she got married in 1939. I have them now and they've been in constant use for all those years. Still as good as new.

My dressing gown is over 20 years old. My DM was really shocked to see I still have it. I wear it pretty much ever day. It was from a local bargain store along the lines of Primark.

I've got an over 45 year old Vorwerk Kobold vacuum. Still working (we've got it reapired once), still getting to buy extensions for it. My latest was a flex pipe with a litte brush for book shelves.

A mechanical handle operated bread slicer from the fifites DH lifted from his DM when he moved out.

I recently went to my parents and got caught in a massive thunder storm. I used my mums hair dryer she had when i was a kid. It still works fine. It must be over 35 years old!!

My MIL has this absolutely lethal looking tin opener which is basically a spiked piece of metal. I'm sure it must date back to roman times! 😂😂

A mincer that has a clamp that fixes to the table . You put the left over roast meat, some carrots and onions through it and wind the handle. Makes the best shepherds pie on earth.

81yrs old. One of my grandmas wedding presents and still going strong !

Iron & ironing board are 15 years old
Newbridge pots 15 yrs
Cotton bedding is 12 years old (Frette hotel range, wedding presents)
Kitchenaid pots 12 years (wedding presents)
Denby pottery 12 yrs (wedding)

Basically everything I asked for on our wedding list is still going strong.

One of my favourite t-shirts was found in a skip in New York 15 years ago. Beginning to near the end of its life now, really.

Oh! M&S cashmere cardigan - 15 years. The secret is not to wash them unless you HAVE to.

A 1960s laundry basket
Fish knives from the 1930s -would never buy them but they were gifted to me by a relative and it’s nice to think that they’re still used
A wheelbarrow that must be 50 years old
A 1970s corduroy chair used daily
Smallest plays with my vintage fisher price hospital and caravan a lot

My gran's hand woven sewing box which she bought circa 1928 from the local indigenous Canadians when she was living there. I use it all the time.

Loads of items in my kitchen were wedding presents in 1998.

My sugar bowl was my grandmothers or maybe great grandmothers but I don't Take sugar so it is not exactly in daily use.

Until a couple of years ago I used the sarong I bought in Primark (Penneys) in 1988. I left it behind on holidays recently. 🙁

When I was a student, I discovered that in order to chop things up in the kitchen a proper knife would be a good idea and so I grabbed the one on special offer in Tesco. That was in 1994 and I still use it several times a week. For some years, it was my ONLY kitchen knife :)

In 1999 I bought a steamer (saucepan and two steamer pans) in a local money saving shop for a fiver and also use that regularly.

My mother has a kenwood mixer which her mother bought in 1952 and its still in good condition. I think its needed a couple of new parts over the years but that's it.

I've got a coat hanger (nice old fashioned one for jackets) with my father's name written on it - he went to boarding school and apparently all hangers had to be name along with everything else. I think he finished school in 1960.

Cheese grater I bought for my "bottom drawer" from the Army & Navy in Victoria Street in the late 1960s. It must have grated hundreds pounds of cheese over all these years!

Crockery and glassware passed on from my mother, only used on special occasions now.

Most of the things I own are handmedowns from family. Lots of pre- war furniture, sewing machine, bed linen, kitchen ware etc which I still use. My own is probably my clock which I've had for about 30 years and my student £5 toaster from 1995. Mind you I still have and wear clothes I bought as a teen. I like things to last!

a morphy richards steam iron that i bought about 15 years ago still working and use it about twice a week

My family has one heirloom: my DH's "Stingray" mug

He started a new job and bought the mug at ASDA in 1994 to take to his new employment.
That cup has moved with us through different jobs in different cities to different countries and it's still going strong.

One day you will see one of my great grand-children on Antique's Roadshow telling the story of their great grandfather's acquisition of the "Stingray" mug.

Lol

My broom - give or take a few new heads and handles

An electric Kenwood hand mixer that is forty years old.

I have 18th century solid silver cutlery and other items that have been passed down the generations?

We still use a dinner service everyday that we got as a wedding gift and it’s our 30th anniversary this year . I also have a dressing gown that is 29 yrs old although I don’t use it daily . Tea cosy is about 25 but that has seen better days . Dh is nearly 60 and still does all the DIY .

My DM gave me a hand blender she bought when weaning me on to solids as a baby. She gave it to me for DDs purées

Microwave, we’ve had it 20+ years, it previously belonged to FIL, he’d had it @10 years. So roughly bought in 1986 - still going strong!

Kenwood mixer that's at least 50 years old.
Our fridge freezer that DH bought when he moved into his first house in 1994, still going strong after multiple house moves and a few periods in storage.
1965 Volkswagen camper van.