What household items have you had the longest?

[TheoWalcott38]

the couch for about 12 years

I have a pink plastic laundry basket, a duvet and duvet cover from 1985 that are still serviceable

I have a chair that my Grandmother left to me, it's made in 1900.

Also a chest of drawers from same grandparent that is nearly as old.

Our clothes dryer is 33 years old.

Habitat bedding bought at university in 1995.
Frying pan bought for university in 1993 (but this really is on the verge of being binned)
DH's spatula from him going to university in 1993, still used regularly.

I have lots of old stuff I do not use, however in use is the ironing board which belonged to my MIL, it must be 40 years old, it’s heavy and clunky but as it still works I have never got a new one.

Plates from the 80s, Le Creuset pan and casseroles from early 90s and beautiful wedge wood & Royal doulton China

And a 60s dressing table stool that has been recovered

An 1800s wooden stool that belonged to my great-great grandmother, great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, and now me. It's probably worth money but I love the family connection to it, and it's useful!

One cream sofa and the washing machine both 17 years.
A small food processor and lots of baking books and trays also for 17 years.

I have some plates from the 80s that were a gift from my uncle to my mum but those are carefully packed away. We take them out occasionally.

A lot of our furniture (table and chairs, sofa, bed, chest of drawers etc) we bought when we moved into our first home after we married 11 years ago. We have crockery etc from then as well. And our TV.

A few mugs predate that.

We have some decorative items from when we were teens/childhood.

I still have, and use everyday, the IKEA dining table I bought 22 years ago.

I have a wooden chest which we store toys in, I have had it since I was a child and it was my grandfather's which travelled the world with him in the merchant navy at the end of WWII.

My food processor was my mum’s from the early 80s, still perfect and gets a lot of use, I’ve had my pressure cooker, my kitchen knives and steel, and some other kitchen stuff since 1991
Tupperware that was my mum’s when she was a rep in the late 60s, earthenware baking bowl that was a wedding present to my mum in 1963,
Baking tins of my gran’s since 1950s
Potato peeler since 1991|the blacks very thin now!
Loads of other stuff that I can’t think of..

Husband since 1994

Sh05 - do you mean the 1880s?

I would be shocked if you felt 1980s was 'old' . DH and I were married in the late 1980s and we've still got loads of things that we started our married life with, we even had the same Habitat China service before we got together and still using that !

The oldest things in my home are probably antique furniture that we've had in the family for 100+ years, I still use my DGM's bone handled knife for spreading butter - it's the best! Must be over 100 years old.

I was reading the thread on bedrooms the other day and it made me think that I still use the stripped pine dressing table and blanket boxes that I bought with my first pay cheque (and yes it was a cheque in those days in the late 1970s !

Singer sewing machine was my grandma's it dates to around 1950, the Bernina that was my mum's was circa 1978
Kenwood Chef - new in 1979, so 42 years
I have a lot of my parents old baking trays etc - these will be 60-70 years old, and some pyrex things almost as old
My Denby was bought in 1983. cutlery 1996.
Dining table & chairs - secondhand in 1996.
Miele washing machine 22 years
Meile dishwasher 22 years
Zanussi tumble drier 22 years
Almost all my house contents is old stuff/second-hand. You'd be pushed to find anything other than 3 piece suite (5 years, bought to replace one bought secondhand 18 years previously) newer than 10 years

Cast iron frying pan, which was a duplicate wedding gift to my parents. It's older than me and I'm about to turn 50.

House built 1865
Cast iron big sauce/stock pan 1980
Pompeii and bignor roman tesserae
(stolen by exh on various visits)
Use tesserae in paperweight every day
Great grandmothers seeing glass circa 1930 - too vain for glasses! Useful for reading small print, same as she used it for.
Great grandmothers earrings made from handmade fishing flies, circa 1920s
Family ring, made for great grandmothers birth 1895 given to her at 18th birthday, passed to grandmother, mother then me.
Cat. 18 on 14 February 2022

Not a lot of new in my house.
Only consumerables.
Everything else secondhand & preloved.

Colander, at least 40 yo

Some saucepans I think. My mum gave them to DP when he got his own place about 32 years ago. She was going to throw them away, but thought they would get him started. I moved in with DP a couple of years later and we still have them. They're probably about 45 years old. I've had the handle fixed on one, but the rest are still going strong. They're just standard stainless steel saucepans, but I know where I am with them, if that makes sense!

Our bedroom furniture and living room bookcase are about 28 years old. The bookcase was drastically reduced in a bomb damage sale, otherwise we could never have afforded it. It wasn't actually damaged though.

Our living room sofa turns 14 in December. I remember because I was a couple of months pregnant with DS1 when we bought it.

12yrs is a mere baby. Mine is second hand and I've had that for 7 years. If my friend is still on here she'll be able to confirm when they bought it.
My bed is 16yrs, lots of kitchen items are hand me downs. Plates from the 1950's. I think my cake forks are from my aunties wedding in 1940 (and they get used and dishwashed regularly).

I've got a Christmas tree bauble that's at least 47 years old because it was on the first tree my parents had when they moved into our family home, and that was the year I was born. It's possibly even older because I know they had a lot of second hand stuff from my GPs.

My parents 1960's g plan furniture

The bathroom fitter's been here 12 days, does that count?

An ironing board & sleeve board with a little seat attached since the 1970’s. Belonged to my MIL, she owned & used it prior so don’t know how old it is. It was brilliant to be able to sit down when doing lots of ironing. I use a clothes steamer now (recommended on MN).🙂

We have a coffee grinder that MILs uncle took as a present when he went to meet MILs Aunts family for the first time.
It’s from 1916