Things you buy once and then make do with for the rest of your life

[Ubiquery]

Cutlery sets. Has anyone ever changed their cutlery set? If so, why and what did you do with the old set. I reckon I will have mine for the rest of my life and never change them.

DP has just chipped another bowl this morning. Most of our crockery set is chipped so I'm toying with breaking them all up for crocking and buying a new one. It'd cost about £25 but feels incredibly wasteful and decadent.

My mum has had the same towels all of my life. None of them match. They are threadbare and patchy. I find it so sad. I wonder why she doesn't just use them all for rags and buy a brand new bale so that they all match and are clean and fluffy.

What things have you bought once and reckon you'll never replace even if you should (my mum's towels) or could (my cutlery set)?

I lie - we have the hand whisk!

No one knows where it came from. It's a lime green mechanical hand whisk that we've had since BEFORE we moved out. DH swears it's his, I swear it's mine.

It's whisks like a mother fucker and if we ever get divorced I'll happily surrender primary custody of the children as lost as I get the good whisk.

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Iemony I've got that pyrex dish - it was my mum's.

[quote Geppili]@LillianGish I have to say that my Brabantia bin does not have a pedal. I'm so sadly in love with it that I am posting a picture. It has a very smooth touch click open and shut. It was a wedding present 15 years ago. What really impressed me about it was that the catch mechanism did succumb to two toddlers using the bin as a drum. However, I wrote to Brabantia and they send me a whole new lid free of charge!! Then the catch went again 5 years later. I wrote again and that time they sent me the catch mechanism only and it was easy to fit and hey presto my beautiful bin was fixed!![/quote]
Yes my bin is from 2007 and had a lid under guarantee, they are a very good buy

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Ah amazing! Thank you! That's a bit of bedtime reading sorted!

Pyrex (some of mine are 35 years old)
Apostle spoons
Jam spoon
I also have my big brown mixing bowl.