What's the oldest unused item in your home currently?

[OneUmberJoker]

Oldest as in time of purchase

Maybe not what you want, but about 30 years ago we inherited a clock made in 1925. We got the clock re-habbed and tuned up, but found we didn't like either the tick or the chime, so it sits gathering dust on the mantlepiece.

A Fireman Sam (remember him??) jumper I started knitting for my nephew and never quite finished. Nephew is 38 now…

My iron 🤣

My Husband.....

Granny.

Just sits there.

Waiting.

Same here. It never gets used.

A copper warming pan.
Mil bought it as an antique many years ago.
It sits next ro the woodburner.

Ooh. An old clock here too. No longer works.

We have a similar clock, an antique inherited from a great aunt. We paid a lot to have it repaired/restored and for a couple of months we did use it - but I was getting annoyed with the chimes being audible through the floorboards (living room is below the bedroom) and it would sometimes wake me up. So I started stopping the clock every night when we went to bed. Then I would often forget to restart it. After a few weeks it became obvious that the best thing was to keep it as an ornament and not use it as a clock. We've had the clock about 30 years.

Beat me to it!

My nana’s tea pot that I rescued from the grasping hands of my thieving bastard cousins in 1993. I don’t use a teapot, but it was that or an onyx lighter. They were like a swarm of locust. We had to stir our tea with a biro from my mum’s bag before we left for the funeral because they’d already had them.

My vagina

Some early mint postage stamps from the mid 1800's and a number of equally ancient postcards that have never had the opportunity to live up to their purpose.

A small wooden table made by my husband in woodwork class at school. He’s 63!

I’ve got a couple of pairs of my partner’s socks which I sometimes wear. He got them for his 10th birthday. He’s 58 now.

The oldest thing in my house is a Wynkyn de Worde woodcut depicting Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, from the late 1400s.

Yes my grandad collected stamps , after grandad passed the collection passed to my dad
And my dad passed mid
1990 s so l collect stamps and l have them and my daughter collects stamps so the collection will pass to my daughter um the stamps are mid 1850 s

My vagina. Poor thing will runaway screaming when it sees a penis again.

Me?

Other than that… probably clothes that I will definitely get back into one day!

A set of carving knife and fork belonging to my late grandparents (died over 20 years ago). They are ornamental and slot into each others handles which are shaped like the two halves of a dolphin so they look like a wooden dolphin with a brass band round its middle but you could accidentally slit your wrists putting them together. They used to live on their mantelpiece as far back as I can remember (I'm in my late 50s), they had a normal set that they actually used. I was given them when their house was cleared and they have been in the back pf my wardrobe ever since, ugly things and one day I'll take them to the tip.

Probably a book I bought as a young teenager. Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1853.
So ive had it about 40 years and I've never read it coz I'm afraid it might fall apart!

Not used, but on display. A beautiful 18th century famille rose dish. Sadly chipped so not worth a huge amount.

I have older things but they are being used (furniture).

My granny's lemon squeezer. It's glass and I worry about dropping it, arthritis in hands, so I use a modern one. I've warned my kids it is not to be thrown out when I die, I will haunt them if it is.

A beautiful wedgewood teapot which was a wedding present in 1986. I drink a lot of tea but always dunk a teabag in a mug. I couldn’t get rid of it though.