What household items have you had the longest?

[TheoWalcott38]

the couch for about 12 years

We have a desk and drawers from MFI that's still going strong. It's definitely 20+ years old.

I bought my hair dryer when I was at university, sometime around 2001 or 2002. My straighteners are a similar age.

A sandwich/panini press that was a wedding present 16 years ago. Still going strong, unlike my marriage.

Bed, wardrobe, bedside tables, curtains, crockery, cutlery...pretty much anything I moved out with 18yrs ago unless it's broken since.

Le creuset pans and casserole pots dating back into the 1980s. I used to buy one every month. I've only had to replace one which we used so much we wore it out.

I have a set of Art Deco coffee bean design spoons. Just looked them up. I need to move them out of the general morras of the cutlery drawer pronto!

My granny's duvet which she bought in Norway in the early 1960s.

Casserole dish received as an engagement present in 1986. Lasted longer than the exH, a damn site more useful and reliable too.

Most of our stuff was newly bought in 2004 when we moved in together but having read some of the previous responses that's virtually brand new 😂 My hairdryer is 20 years old though, heavy usage too. I'm very fond of it. My mum has pans they got as wedding presents and they are about to celebrate their 53rd anniversary. My pans are Woolworths brand though, so I feel like that's a bit of history in the cupboard 😂

We had a new Panasonic microwave bought as a Christmas present from the in laws. It was larger than most models certainly today’s microwaves. It lasted until we had a new kitchen 32 years. We had it tested several times whenever we had an electrician. Always sound!

My ds's bed. It was my new bed when I was 11 and I'm now 48 , it's had several new mattresses but the wooden frame, drawers, headboard and slats are all original!

I also have a 25 year old stainless steel steamer saucepan that we still use everyday, and my Dad's old school tuck trunk, which i store my precious things in, and is about 65 years old .

Microwave for 34 years finally said goodbye to it this year

My oldest thing that is still working is the scientific calculator bought for me when started A level maths course in 1984 it is still on original battery. I have crockery and saucepans from when I went to uni in 1986. So have had calculator 37 years and other stuff 35. The oldest working item in house is a grandfather clock from 1778

Our clock isn’t dated but it was DHs grandmother’s and possibly her mother before her. DH is 68.
I have some of my aunt’s Pyrex from the 50’s.
Some crockery from Victorian times and a hand painted cup, saucer and plate from an ancestor dated 1881.

An oak bedding chest with candle box inside and two drawers on the bottom it takes three men to move it and we aren’t sure how old it is I think it was her great grandmother’s.

In the garden we have a stone sink that plague pennies were washed in apparently.

I have an enamel pie dish which was my grandmas. Could be up to 70 yrs old I suppose, still makes awesome pies!
I also have a standard lamp which was hers - probably similar age.
And a tall boy which belonged to her parents I think so prob 100yrs old.

Strangely enough I was thinking about this the other day.

Up until two weeks ago when i dropped it, it was a really handy Pyrex dish I’d had since second year of Uni in 2003 when I stole it from my mum (who had had it since the 70s or so I think).

Now I think it’s a set of 5 Morphy Richards saucepans and £75 set of eversharp knives I got when I bought my first flat in 2007 that I use pretty much every day, as well as cast iron ridged frying pan I got as a Christmas present from my then-boyfriend in 2008 (we actually broke up a week after but it wasn’t due to getting a frying pan for Christmas).

The only thing I think I have and its not very household I'm afraid , I've got some ghd paddle brush size straighteners from when I first got with ex husband must be 15 years old now and still do a better job than all the other hair tools I've got.

Pyrex set for my engagement in 1977. Jugs ( no markings) casserole dishes still on the go.

I’ve got my great grandmas rolling pin! It’s probably 90-100 yrs old. I love it!

A rug I bought from IKEA in 1993.

Oh yes, some of my grandmother’s Pyrex probably 1950s? My uncle’s childhood mug - 1940s.

Prestige hi-dome pressure cooker, a wedding gift in 1973 and still going strong .
When we bought our first house in 1975, my gran gave us her Spear and Jackson garden trowel and fork “ just to start off with “.
I think of her every time we use them….❤️

We were bought a set of 6 pots and pans as a wedding gift 25 years ago... I have one pot left, lost the lid but it’s great for mashing spuds in.

A pillow that was my great grandmother’s. It must be from the 1910s or 20s.