To ask what the oldest item is in your house (that still works)?

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Not an AIBU, just posting for traffic

I just realised that my hairdryer is 15 years old. It's a Remington, and it still works perfectly, so no need to replace it.

I also have a spice rack (spinny round one) which is 10 years old. The spices in it have changed, obviously

Anyone beat those?

I have a Kenwood hand mixer which is nearly 40 years old, still works fine.

My Moulinex food processor is about 30 years old, but it hardly ever gets used, it only seems worth getting out of the cupboard if I'm making tapenade or something, so I don't know if that counts.

My DGM's early eighties sewing machine is still serving me well.
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Swiss made.

Kitchen scales: about 120 yrs old, and still regularly used
Hand sewing machine: 1920s, not used very often
Teapot: 1920s, DH used it yesterday
Electric sewing machine: feck knows, I bought it secondhand almost twenty years ago, and it was no spring chicken then. I think it dates from the 1950s.
Calculator: 36 yrs old (I can remember buying it)
Slow cooker: wedding present, almost 25 yrs old
Freezer: coming up to its 18th birthday

This house is a museum, frankly including some of the occupants

The oldest 'things' in my house are Nabatean coins, roman coins, roman brooch, roman weight for measuring money in the shape of an owl.

I've got Tudor jewellery too including a ring with a large red glass stone (worth much more than ruby in Tudor times as glass was so difficult to make).

My hairdryer is around 30 years old - how did that happen???? That is the oldest electrical appliance.

Have got clothes older than me

Oh and my cutlery was mostly my great grandma's, some from when she got married, so 100 years old. That gets used every day.

Also some pretty engraved glasses, and a tea set but they live in the sideboard

I've got my Nans kenwood as well (they really were made to last weren't they!) I guestimate its from about 1975 so 40 year old and still going strong.

Also still working is my 1950s Bakelite phone that I picked up in a charity shop for a tenner last year.

Plenty of mechanical things: my gran's coffee grinder from just post-war for example, or her mincer. Both still in regular use. I have much older cutlery and crockery from her household and plenty of textiles, tablecloths etc.

Elwctronic/electrical: probably my school calculator from c.1985. it's only on its second battery too and works well. I saw one of them in a museum the other week

And a few fossils. (200 million years old, give or take) But they don't get used as such

Probably the boiler. It came with the house and looks properly old! We've talked about replacing it with a modern efficient one, but we are not going to as they're £££££ and my parents experience of modern condensing boilers is that they are crap and break down after 5 years.
Aside from that, my microwave is probably the oldest thing. It predates my marriage. DH remembers buying it as a replacement after he returned from university, so around 1998 or so.
Its the one thing we own I wish would blow up, sodding huge box that it is. I swear it keeps going out of spite!

Good to see lots of Kenwoods on here!

We have a 1994 Sony CRT tv. It still works and my DH occasionally watches it! I really want to get rid of it but he won't hear of it.

We have some Neolithic arrow heads that my great grandfather found on a dig in Scotland in the 1920s. I suppose they would still work if I had a bow.

Hornby train from 1926

Had my eyeliner sharpener since I was about 13....30 years ago. Still works perfectly!

22yr old toaster is still toasting was a wedding present doesnt even go with anything in the kitchen anymore. My last hairdryer was 19 when it conked out ivehad 3 since

We have the sofa and freezer we bought for our first house 20 years ago. The towels and saucepans that were bought for me when I went to university 30 years ago, are still in use.

I have a grandfather clock that was made in 1881. It's a family heirloom and I live my life in fear that I will be the one to accidentally set it on fire.

A mug commemorating the end of WW1. After that, probably the 20 yo car.

A lot of my China is over 150 years old as is my cutlery although not the everyday stuff

The whole house is 200+ years and the firesplaces are all working but not sure that counts.

My hair drier is 20 years old which is pretty impressive. Time to trade it in for a Dyson

My grandmother's Singer sewing machine that she got for her 21st birthday in 1913. It's a peddle machine housed in its own cabinet and tucks away when not in use.

Still going strong!

I have an old radiogram that I bought from a charity shop about 10 years ago. I'm not sure how old it is but they were about in the 60's/70's. It lights up and I love it!

DH
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I have a couple of books that are 19th century.
Probably after that my hand turn singer sewing machine, about 1920s.
Then an old Copper kettle. I think it's about 1930s, could be older, it's been in the family a long time. it used to go on top of a cooker, but at some point someone cut a hole in it and made it electric.
I have some of my Gran's towels (put away for a rainy day that never happened) which were a wedding present in 1938.

Try my actual electrics. When a fuse blows you have to drop a bit and f wire in. Fucking prehistoric.