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Just wondering what passes the test of time? I personally have an old Casio watch and if you count fruit trees, those are pretty old too.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Until last year I used a ski coat from 1940 as my winter coat

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hmm, probably cookware from the 1960's. Furniture too, if that counts. It's possible something in the kitchen is actually a generation older, although I'm not sure.

If you include decorations as opposed to just tools it goes back almost arbitrarily (I have 19th century heirlooms, pre-settlement arrowheads and Cambrian period fossils), but I think the spirit of the question is more about things finding a totally pragmatic application.

Edit: I also have a touch-sensitive lamp of a similar age to the cookware. I'm not sure how it works exactly, but I'm guessing the entire exterior is one big capacitor, and it must have a very early transistor inside to switch it. It's not quite used daily, but it's sure interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Huh, very cool! Nobody in the family could remember where mine actually came from. Nobody else knew enough about electronics to be impressed by how old it is, either. Actually I'm lucky it came up.

There's no markings I can see. If Alladin had a patent on it maybe that would be the place to start looking for the model.

There's no mechanical relay I can hear and no tube warmup period, but on the other hand it has no boot period and it does behave oddly depending on the quality of mains power (so analog). The person who almost certainly bought it died in the 1970's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a washcloth I got when I was like 6.. I’m almost 40. It’s a really nice mesh washcloth and somehow it only has one extra hole that shouldn’t be there, as well as a seam for the edging that needs to be fixed.

I’ve used it almost daily for my face that whole time.

But the oldest thing I have that I sort of technically use is a wheelchair from WWI. It functions as a chair in my living room. I don’t really think it counts, being furniture, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's cool. Where'd you get the wheelchair? Got a pic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Probably my Ron Jon Surf shop beach towel I got while on holiday in Florida in 1997 (I live in the UK). Still in great condition and I wouldn't say I've looked after it particularly.

Also honourable mention to my oldest tech which is an HP touchsmart 600 PC I use for youtube in my bedroom, it's from 2011 and still just about hanging on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Maybe the iron skillets. I don't think a day passes that I don't use those. Or my house, it's from the 1940s. Some of the furniture is older than that too, though I don't think there is any one piece I actively use each day.

Truly oldest? Double entry accounting, I use nearly every day and that's from around 1300.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have a stove that is a little older then me. I have a cheese grater that no one in house kniws where it cane from or when we bought it. I have a towel i go in the 90s on a trip. That's about as old as a robotech art book i have kept since around then. And I have my grand father's dresser. Not sure how old that is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I have a 1973 Gibson ripper bass and a 1971 ampeg svt v9 with a late 70s 8x10 ampeg cabinet. I don't use them daily but more than twice a week, they both still work perfectly. Just regular maintenance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fender Stratocaster, bought from a Best Buy musical instrument department probably 19ish years ago. Just put new strings on it yesterday and continued learning Dokken's In My Dreams. Fuck that second part of the solo..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not exactly daily but the shovel I use to clean out my grill ashes was my grandfather's, hand forged and used for branding iron fires, gotta be 100 years old. Then a phonograph from 1960.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bedside table.

Maybe 50 years old.

[–] explodicle 2 points 2 weeks ago

My wallet is the last piece of leather I will ever own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If it's truly daily use only, then surprising myself, I think it might actually be my phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A large tooth comb I’ve had since middle school. I used it everyday until a couple of years ago when I switched to a brush better designed for my hair type, but I still use it on occasion. Not sure how I haven’t lost that thing throughout the years.

ETA: I’ve had the thing for over 2 decades!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a cherry wood cabinet from the 1890s that I use to store food. Every day I take a box of cereal from it and put it back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

P-38 can opener from World War II. This little thing is the best can opener I've ever owned.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My dick. I've used that every day since I was born.

The dresser in my bedroom was my dad's and it's older than me. I think it's around 50 years old.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

My '97 car?
Clothing? Furniture?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The radio alarm clock, couldn’t find the specific year only to narrow towards the late 70s.

My flat, the building was built around the beginning of the 70s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
  • house, built in 1900
  • me, built in 1974
  • pocket knife, built in 1994
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a Razer mousepad that I've used for probably 15 years now.

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