Shit items that you never replace.

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We have 2.

A washing up bowl bought 7 years ago for 3 quid. Part of it’s melted. It’s bleached and cleaned properly every week. The other day Dh suggested we buy a new one. We were both staggered by it😲

A shit mirror we took from Dmil house when she died. We painted the mahogany frame white. But it looks shit. You can see the mahogany. It’s just shit. And l like my interiors. But this peiceof shit hangs there. I suggested we buy a new one tonight. Again we were shocked that we hadn’t thought of it before.

A plastic seive that’s melted and broken . Yet we continue to use it🤷🏼‍♀️

Our clicky thing on the gas hob broke about a month after we moved in 20 years ago and we have used a lighter ever since, although it did very occasionally work.
I have no idea why we never replaced it but DH bought a small plastic bit from Amazon last week and fixed it in less than a minute.
I quite often forget though and get the lighter out

No name, just chickie eggcup.

The big frying pan. It has a good heavy base for even cooking - but is therefore too heavy to hold 1-handed if there's any food in it. It doesn't have a 2nd grab handle on the other side, and the handle it does have is metal - so you have the choice of holding it close to the pan for minimal leverage and burning your hand, or holding the far end and the leverage overpowering your wrist. The non-stick layer is impressively dishwasherproof, but isn't actually non stick. I resent it every time I get it out of the cupboard.

We should replace it, but every other pan in existence is too big, too small, not dishwashable, too thin, even heavier, or with even worse handles.

I have one of those! It was given to my mum as a wedding present. I'd completely forgotten it even had a blender part - that probably crumbled away decades ago.

I am finding the various '[thing] is older than my teens' posts amusing. Many of my favourite kitchen gadgets are considerably older than I am. Mostly kept because I love them and they work, though, so they don't belong on this thread. Unlike the horrifically garish (orange, very patterned) 1960s hand towels that were my least-favourite grandmothers and are now so thin in the middle you could read a book through them. But if I got rid of those I'd have to demote something better to spill-mopping cloths.

@StressedToTheMaxxx
"Is that what that side of the grater is for, zest?? Oh my goodness, I always wondered what it was for, I tried to grate cheese on that side once and it was just a mess. Lifelong mystery solved!"

Also works for parmesan. And if there's a smaller version on the side, that's for nutmeg.

Same here, though I have 4 and 3 are broken (but still hold laundry). I only realised the other day it's totally my fault as I'm really rough with them

Apparently. MIL used to do mine whenever she was here babysitting. We'd come home to the smell of bleach every time. I feel like she was trying to tell me something.
When she died, I bleached it in her honour.

Could you swap the draw over with one you don't use much so it makes life easier?

An Emma Bridgewater biscuit barrell, its shit, ive owned it 6 years, when you try to pull the lid off it bends out of shape and within a couple days the biscuits are all soft and stale. But I cant throw it because it matches my caddies which seem to work fine. So now it's an ornamental biscuit barrel and biscuits are in a plastic container in the cupboard

My mum hung onto towels and teatowels forever (war child). After she died I found a cupboard full of towels the consistency of loofahs and took them all to Dogs for the Disabled (as it was then called) for them to dry off the dogs after a walk.

@CountryMouse22 - for years my mum’s dishcloths were the Terry nappies she’d used for me and my sister, boil washed and cut in half. 🤢🤢🤢

My tribe!! 😝

TOO MANY THINGS
-en suite loo seat is the cheapest flimsiest plastic ever. I think the guy who put our bathroom on just assumed we'd change it but nope. We've had it 7 years or so. It's bendy, there's a huge chunk broken off the back of the seat lid, and DS2 has managed to unscrew it so many times he's unthreaded it and now it's completely skewed. I might just snap and get a new one next week.
-a few of the kitchen cabinets are minus knobs. We just have automatic little hacks to open all of them. One of the under-sink cupboards lost the top panel of the door too, makes it easier to reach in and grab the cling film/foil. 😂
-My favourite stainless steel pan, tall sided, excellent thick bottom. Minus one handle and the lid has no knob to it. DH HATES it, I love it.
-manky old olive wood chopping board with massive unhygienic cracks in it. I have no idea why we hang onto it, except it seems to be our favourite for everyday use. It's really small, too!
-Kitchen door doesn't shut without the right sort of wriggle and slam. I tried to fix it by replacing a broken handle part but now it's just not right and doesn't latch. And we have no extractor fan in the kitchen!! If someone's cooking something at all smokey or steamy we open a window. Or the back door. Bit chilly in winter. We've lived in this house 12 years...
-Some of the towels came to university with me. I'm now 49.

A towel I bought in 1994 when I went back to uni and forgot to take the shit towel that my Mum had given me for uni that had belonged to my grandfather (who died before I was born). This one was big and tartan and soft. And lovely. All the edges frayed so I used my overlocker to trim and finish them. That was about 8 years ago. It now has a rip about a foot in length from one edge inwards. I can’t chuck it out though because every time I try to I find one of DDs (24,22 and 16) is using it. It’s still tartan and soft but not quite as big as it used to be. Oh, and I’ve still got the shit towel that had belonged to my grandfather. Sometimes I even find a DD is using it.

Laugh all you want but they're so absorbent! Excellent for mopping up spills.

Inspired by this thread, I have thrown out the 2 split and irredeemably sticky silicone spatulas, and replaced them with a single new one.

But did not do anything about the collection of measuring/guessing jugs. This consists of:

• Very clearly labeled beakers (one of which is really well designed to be able to measure small volumes with greater accuracy) that pour OK, but can't be used with anything hot. Even tap-hot water leads to worrying cracking noises.

• Jugs that are clearly labelled and fine with boiling water, but are shit at pouring and dribble half the contents over the worktop.

• Jugs that pour beautifully and can take water straight from the kettle, but have completely invisible markings.

And 1 jug that is both invisibly marked and* shit at pouring.

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