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 still have my gran’s cooking utensils and the dish that she kept them in. I can pretty much guarantee most are from the 50’s and still going strong. My 21 yr old daughter has my T-shirt that I bought when I was 11. 😀

cjt110. You binned it. What a shame! With the right fitting - it could have been converted into a vibrator.

I have a cup give to me by a school friend when I was 16 so that's lasted 32 years. My oldest and fondest possession is my advent calendar which is an angel with little cardboard windows which was a present from my godmother when I was 1 or 2 so at least 46 years old.

A solar Texas scientific calculator, which I definitely had by the time of my maths GCSE in 1990, because I remember waving it around the rather gloomy school hall during my exam, trying to get enough light to charge it. it's still going strong today, although it's been many years since its "scientific" buttons have been used.

DS gets through calculators like crisps; fortunately they cost about £6 each these days. He loves it when I remind him about my 30-year-old (and relatively much more expensive) calculator every time he needs a new one. I did offer to lend it to him for luck in his GCSEs (I got an A 😁) but he declined.

I’m mourning my Boots ladyshave. I got it for my 21st birthday and I’m now 59! It has been nipping me under the arms when I use it so have reluctantly had to retire it just a couple of months ago. (It’s still in my bathroom cupboard though!)

Love and the.....When I married in 1968 - along with the usual promises - I included one that I would always peel the potatoes: I continue to use the original spud peeler I bought when we returned from honeymoon. Still married to the same bride. Philip Larkin - Poet - wrote: "All that survives of us is love." In our case: love and the spud peeler.

I have a water proof canvas jacket in my wardrobe I've had since I moved to Scotland when i was 14. I'm now 50. It used to be army green and it's now a dark1 grey color and I can't wear it any more because it seems to always be moist on the inside but I can't bring myself to throw it away. All my most prominent memories from my teenage years and very early 20's took place with me wearing that jacket.

Oh and my pink teddy bear my dad brought me the day I was born. He sits on the sofa in my bedroom now.

Yesterday said goodbye to 22 year old washing machine. DP's mum bought it for us when we first moved in together.

But I do have at least one gig t-shirt that is older than that - Dharma bums anyone?

And a scarfy thing I used to tie my hair back when I was growing out my fringe in the mid 90s.

I found out over Christmas my husband’s great grandmother (or Nana as we call her) still sleeps with a pillow that was a wedding gift. She’s 97 and got married in the early 1940s. 🤢🤮

I have my grandmother's large earthenware baking bowl, which she got as a young married woman. She died 31 years ago at the age of 84.
I also have her moulinex food mixer. Still in perfect working order and in its original box.
Both are still used regularly. I would be devastated if that bowl got broken. My daughter has requested I leave it to her when I pop off.

40 odd year old leather jacket x

More sentimental. I have the name wristband from the hospital the day I was born. Also a lock of my baby hair and my first pair of shoes, they are tiny.

A large cast-iron frying pan, bought from Habitat when I left home in 1975

We still use one we bought for a few shillings at a school fete when OH was on Teaching Practice back in '69, considering that we go through frying pans at a rate of knots generally, that's some going, maybe because it doesn't have non-stick to burn.

Just remembered that we have a couple of Charles and Diana Dunoon pottery mugs from when they got married, at least the mugs have lasted!

Microwave/grill combo from 1995, slow cooker and electric carving knife given as wedding presents in 1986. Electric hand held food mixer given second hand to me in 1985. All used all the time.
Oldest clothing is roll neck jumper from 1978.

Aargh also christmas tree lights bought from woolies in 1986. Never failed yer!

I have some of my school reports and they are over 55 years old.
I have a top I bought from C&A when I was 17 and some old exercise books that I wrote words to songs in when I first began to sing in folk clubs. I have loads of old books. Some are older than me.
I have the cutlery I was given as a wedding present more than 40 years ago. I have lost most of the teaspoons though.

A beautiful mahogany Victorian small table that I purchased from an elderly lady with my after school job money when I was 15. I am 45.

I have been collecting antiques ever since!