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?

Kenwood chef wedding present 1984

Couldn't tell you the oldest item in our house - DH and I both love old stuff! - but I think our oldest complex/working item is our piano, which I think is at least 100 years old. It's a beautiful old thing and I bought it for £30 the year DH and I first moved in together.

We recently moved so had to change piano tuners - guy walks in, sees the piano, doesn't even sit down to try it before telling us we'd be better off exchanging it (through him!) for a more 'modern, compact' piano. DH almost threw him out then and there...

I am still using a Moulinex coffee grinder that must be 30 years old.

Car. Saab. 1978. £50 off eBay 7 ys ago. Still works and even passed mot.

My GHD hair straighteners that I bought when they first became available in the UK in 2002. Still used on a daily basis, best £100 I have ever spent

I have a plate that was given to my grandma when she left service to get married in the 1920s. It is a big meat plate and comes out once a year for Christmas. It was part of an old dinner service from the house she worked in and we think it was made in the 1890s

Me.

My parents coffee grinder c 1972. Dh has an armchair of his grandfather's c1930 - has been re-upholstered a couple of times. 1920s oak wardrobe. The very oldest is a 18th century Persian oil jar. It doesn't work as such - oil holding days long since past.

We've just replaced our kitchen cabinets, which were about 35 years old - and found a packet of coffee beans from 1993 lodged down the back of one of the pipes. My hairdryer is 30 years old but, to be fair, that's mainly because I never use it. I have a mouli grater and a mincer, which I would think are about 60 years old.

If it counts as an appliance, I regularly use a knife sharpener from c1750.

So 270 years old! Bloody hell. It lives next to my Ikea measuring spoons

Bamix that my mum bought before she got married - it's their 50th anniversary next month!

I have a Stone Age axe and arrowheads. Almost everything else in the house iis twentieth or twenty first century.

Wow. Some really old items. Did have the old console that played pong, the orange and black one. Might have been Atari. Lost in the move somehow but was from 1972.

DH had a Betamax!

Stuff that isn't old enough to count as antique would probably be a 41 year old bag, a lamp I bought in 1995, my bike, a coat and a set of saucepans all from the early 1990s, a 25 year old duvet cover and pillowcase.

I have a hot water bottle that says Made in West Germany on it.

Carved wooden blanket chest from the reign of Charles II. It still has blankets in it.

My sewing machine is from 1936 and was used extensively by my gran but still in good working order.

Electrical - kenwood chef from the mid 50's
I have some fossils that are 250 million years old, but not working

30 year old hairbrush still like the day i bought it. Mason pearson bristle brush.

I have an electric twin whisk handheld mixer that my mum won as part of a set, along with dough hooks, goblet blender and nut chopper attachment, and bowl with stand, in a raffle at work back in 1982. The mixer still works 35 years later, and still makes lovely cakes.

I'm still using towels we got as wedding presents 22 years married !!

I have a Lloyd Loom chair from the 1950s. Nothing else of any great age but loving hearing about everyone else's! I wonder how much of today's tat will still be in use in 30+ years time!

3/4 pieces of wooden furniture we own are around 50-60 years old and they're still going strong and we'll most probably keep them for years and years to come.

As for the oldest item, I have an 1853 copy of the Canterbury Tales, with tissue covers protecting the illustrations, and pages with ragged sides and ends, that had to be ripped with a book knife to open them.

I also have an old leather bound photograph album, full of random photos of people from the 1880s to early 1900s. I nicked that from my school - it was among the "props" in the basement below the stage.

I don't know how you all keep electrical working so long! Someone needs to share the secret with me.

I've been in this house 14 years now and I've gone through 3 fridge freezers, 2 washing machines, 2 dishwashers, 4 tumble dryers and AT LEAST 6 or 7 hairdryers. What am I doing wrong?

Apart from me?

An oak stool that was my grandmother's, about 100 years old.
A Union Jack hanky from VE day celebrations.
A huge trilobite fossil which must be well past pension age.
A scales my mother used, about, 70 years old and still accurate.
A 2WW gas mask : Are you my mummy?