What is older than you

[sashh]

On Monday I had a group of girls come to my door. They were selling bracelets they had made.

My carer opened the door and I said to buy one for me.

The cat decided to be her usual self and needed to inspect the new humans who all started fussing her.

My carer said tot he girls that although she is small she is actually 15.

One girl responded with, "That's older than me!"

So for a bit of fun who or what is older than you?

A set of dishes in the cupboard that were given to my FIL’s aunt on her 18th birthday and she hated the art deco design. Other than that, my brother.

I am older than the contraceptive pill being available to unmarried women. I am older than the Race Relations Act or the Sex Discrimation Act or the Equal Pay Act.

However, Votes for Women is older than I am.

An original intact copy of Jaws Magazine, released to coincide with the movie in 1975 🦈

A blueish fossil sea shell my boyfriend bought me on the the Isle of Wight. He couldn't get me a dinosaur fossil, so this was best he could get.
It's beautiful with tiny sparkly quartz crystals in the rock matrix. Around 122 million years old to my mid 30s! 😎
I intend to be buried with it. Most thoughtful gift I ever got after my crappy childhood.

My Granny’s rocking-chair and wedding china. Very old damask tablecloth.

My Dad’s aunts’ dishes that they hand-painted.

An enormous china basin from before there were handbasins in bedrooms. Jug broken long ago.

Lace embroidery from DH’s mum.

Dad’s schoolbooks and his dad’s woodworking tools.

Old maps and train timetables for stations that were disappearing even before Beeching.

Ministry of Food booklets on how to cook your rations.

My biscuit tin. It belonged to my grandmother, then my mum, now me. I’m 65 so the tin is ancient. In time my dd will use it as well.

DH
A painting done by DH's grandad! A jacket my dad bought when he was 18

Yep, my house. (Just!)

Quite a number of things I still have of my mother's and grandmother's - old jewellry and a few other bits and bobs, that date back to 1950s and earlier.

Some vinyl that belonged to my parents (from the early 1960s and 1950s.)

A few bits of oak furniture that my grandparents and great grandparents had - from the 1930s and earlier.

A photograph in a frame that is 140 years old! (A great great aunt!)

I'm sure there is more!

I am in my late 50s.

My house, by several centuries.

My Nanna’s engagement ring. She & my Grandad married in early 1940, before Grandad joined the RAF. I have my mother’s wedding ring, too.

Farthings, but only just.

My granddad’s spoon which was issued for him to use in the trenches at Ypres in WW1.

My garden secateurs & one of his chef’s knives belonged to my father before i was born,

I have an 1824 Maundy penny. So it would have been handed out on Maundy Thursday that year by George VI.

The pressure cooker I cooked our dinner in today. It was a wedding present for my parents 51 years ago.

They moved and got a flash hob so now I have the pot that cooked 1000’s of my childhood dinners - I love it…

PLEASE 'UNSUBSCRIBE' ME

My tumble dryer. DM got it just before I was born. She gave it to me when DD was born, and it's still going. It's nearly 40!

My house.
Much of DS1's coin collection.
Probably my my flute.

My oldest sewing machine has a 1971 serial number so isn't older than me but is older than DH.

We have a small stool. It has a metal frame and the top is made of red and yellow woven string/twine. My grandad made it long before I was born.

Lots of things at my mums house that she's had since before she had DC.

On the flip side, I was once giving a presentation to some graduate new joiners. Each presenter had to start off by introducing themself and saying when they joined the company. When I spoke one young 20-something blurted out "I wasn't even born then". Felt extremely ancient.

My bath

The Kashmire sapphire ring I wear. The stone is tiny but beautiful. And as I'm 75 I look at it in awe because It's at least 50 years older than me (possibly more) but get it's still beautiful.

My DUncle’s War medals and our house.

Only my eldest. The others are younger than me. 😂

The kitchen chairs we bought when we got married 40 years ago that were already 100 years old.

I think you mean George IV don’t you?