to mourn the "death" of my ladyshave.... Whats your oldest belonging?

[cjt110]

Honestly... this is lighthearted and not some weirdo fetish...

I have the fortune to have the cupboard over the loo. I have 1 cupboard... HE has 2 so my stuff is just kinda shoved in.

Got something out the other day and my ladyshave... which is antique I might add - promptly fell down the loo. I grabbed it out - and immediately binned it... Having images of being electrocuted whilst trimming didn't fill me with confidence.

I bought that beaut aged 12/13 when my Mum finally agreed I could buy one. I had fluffy, downy, hairy legs. I wasn't allowed razors but could buy a ladyshave as it was safer.

I've had that thing for 20 years.... 20!

sniff

I now need to find another... replacement... that doesn't leave stubble behind!

What's your oldest item?

I have a 20 year old jumper. But when I was doing the Christmas tree I found a decoration that the tooth fairy gave me when I lost my first tooth at 7, so that wins.

Sorry about your ladyshave

My faithful toaster - l've had it since l left home back in the Pleistocene era. I've probably jinxed it now!

The first grown up thing I bought myself was a mug, just for ME, not for anyone else in the house to use, for when I was leaving home. It may not seem very grownup now, because anyone can buy themselves a mug, but this was in a village, 32yrs ago and I didn’t have much money.i still have it. 😁

I have a 33 year old afro comb that I stole from my step dad when I was 11 - it's so manky now with bits of plastic hanging off it but I have a deep emotional attachment to it, and it still does the BEST backcombing I would be devastated if I lost it!

@AnneLovesGilbert Thanks for your kind words

@UsedtobeFeckless DH had a Kenwood(?) toaster, kettle and toastee maker set when we met. It was yellow. And fucking hideous. He insisted for many years we weren't getting rid as it was perfectly functional. I was one day telling a colleague about said mining kettle et al and was overjoyed the following day when the spring in the toast went... Oh how I danced a merry dance! We got a new bamboo one

My straighteners were a gift from oh in 2001. They still do the job.

Until last year my oh used his dad's razor (it used disbosible blades) his dad bought it in the 70's. He was gutted when he lost it.

My lady shave died over xmas and I'm still gutted! Also my first car was finally scrapped last year. When my beloved little Micra went, I cried.

Oooh! Big Comb that l got free with Jackie magazine pre-dates the Faithful Toaster ... Although DS2 has snaffled it now as an emergency back up to his tangle teaser ...

My hairdryer hubby Got it when he was 13 and had curtains (oh the style 😂) he’s 39 this year so it’s 26 years old and still going strong I have used it almost daily for 18 years

cjt110 My toaster is a tasteful sort of silvery job and fairly inoffensive, but it only does regular sliced bread, no new-fangled muffin adjusters here ...

Apart from my baby teddy, I've got and still wear a cardi from Bay Trading that I must have bought circa 2000. It's still going strong!

I have a 34 year old stuffed toy, that I received on the day I was born. He's still by my bed. Every so often I think "bigger, you need a wash" and bring him in a whites wash!

I have a radio alarm I bought with my first pay in August 1985. It was the cheapest most basic model available. It still works perfectly. I may get rid of it when I retire.

Just a simple toaster here too... Here's the old set vs the new beautiful one...

I have my comfort blanket (which is actually an old dressing gown) from when I was three and also my Disney alarm clock — it still works; things were built to last back in't day — from when I was around five. So ...... that makes them 49 and 47 respectively

Ok cjt110 fair play, that is a bit grim!

I have a mug I bought at Girls Brigade camp aged 12/13. I am extremely precious over it and NOBODY is allowed to touch it. Yes, my family do tease me about my mug, but I love it!

I have a Ladyshave in the loft! Still in its original pouch!

@UsedtobeFeckless Now just to get rid of the yellow bin.... We've been together 15 years next month and he's had a longer relationship with the bin!

@SingingSands I keep looking at new ones and thinking should I... they're not like they used to be. This still had it's pouch and everything. And now they seem to be bloody battery operated!

My Kenwood hand-held mixer dates back to 1980. It cost £13.44 in Rumbelow's.
It's getting a bit dodgy now, one of the beaters falls out at high speed.
I'm looking longingly at stand mixers, but feel a bit disloyal to my old baking friend....

A large cast-iron frying pan, bought from Habitat when I left home in 1975. That's the oldest thing I've owned from new.

I have older things than that though. I think the oldest is a ribbon map of the route from London to Brighton, can't recall the precise date but it's early 1800s.

OP, don't let the Ladyshave die! Rescue it from the bin, shake it out and put it somewhere warm to dry out for days and days. It will possibly be fine.

@Time40 I don't think I've emptied the bin so I might be able to rescue it.

I had a set of 4 tumblers I bought for 50p from Woolworths for University 20 years ago. I am an avid party-thrower and they are the glasses the kids are allowed to use because I believed them indestructible. I must have got through tens of wine glasses in the time I've owned these. They were all still intact, until I smashed one a couple of weeks ago, I was more upset than I probably should have been about a cheap glass... but quite glad that it was me that broke it or I might have struggled to forgive anyone else

A large cast-iron frying pan, bought from Habitat when I left home in 1975. That's the oldest thing I've owned from new

:) Oldest things that I have from new are Prestige saucepans and roasting dish. 1978 and in immaculate condition. I daresay Prestige is feeling bittersweet about that...

I have willow pattern crockery... unsure how to date it but I know DH's Aunt says her mother had the same pattern when they were kids and she is 70ish.