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What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?

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  • zombiepirate@lemmy.worldZ [email protected]

    I've got a couple of cast iron skillets from the early sixties that I use pretty much every day.

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    I use my grandma's and great grandma's cast iron weekly.

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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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      My mechanical keyboard. I bought a ducky shine 0 with mx blues when I first got into PC gaming about 11 years ago. I want to upgrade to something fancier but it just never dies!

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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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        I have the metal 'polenta spoon' that my great grandparents brought to the US from Italy in 1896. I don't use it, but it sits in the utensil bin by my stove. No idea how old it is or why it was deemed important enough to bring on a boat.

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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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          I think the apt. building I live in is from the 1920s or so.

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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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            Daily? Probably the coffee mug I've had for 15 years.

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            • reverendender@sh.itjust.worksR [email protected]

              I canโ€™t believe how automatic it is!

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              My grandfather loved to collect old shit just for the fun of repairing it, that's kind of how I got into my own hobby.

              I remember fixing one of these with him, and actually we made a fuckload of toast because it was pretty cool.

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                Man, I wish you could still get a leather belt for $5. Good luck finding one for $50.

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                You can still find them for $5 in thrift shops, just need to be able to tell the difference between the good stuff and the crappy stuff.

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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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                  I have a folding card table that currently serves as my desk. I don't know how old it is -- 1960s, maybe, based on the style of the brand/sales label on the back? It's almost certainly older than I am, at least... Got it from my uncle back when I was in college and its still working well enough that I haven't bothered to replace it.

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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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                    I have an orange sweater that I got for a christmas present all the way back in 2001 that, despite nearly daily use a my "lounging around at home sweater", is still in almost perfect shape except for the colours fading a bit in the places that see a lot of robbing (elbows, etc...)

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                      My dad was friends with the guy who designed the Aztec Hotel. He didn't want regular light fixtures originally, so he came up with an idea for lighted columns, and he made a prototype table-lamp sized. The was in 1925. The prototype is in my living room and I use it every day.

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                      Interesting, got any pics?

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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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                        Got a Gillette Fatboy slim safety razor, it's over twice my age!

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                        • ptz@dubvee.orgP [email protected]

                          AFAIK, it's only two outlets on the far end of the house. The only things I have plugged into them are some lamps (with LED bulbs) and phone chargers. The rest of the house was re-wired in ~2013 or so. Not sure why previous owner didn't do those last few outlets, but at least the rest of the house is up to code.

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                          Ah gotcha. It's possible that they were a pain to get to without destroying the plaster/drywall and the previous owner was tapped for money, it happens. But yeah, make sure no heavy loads, especially space heaters, and you're probably fine.

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                          • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.deM [email protected]

                            Most of it is a decade old at best ^^

                            sauce: https://book.bionumbers.org/how-quickly-do-different-cells-in-the-body-replace-themselves/

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                            Apparently we are just the brain and eyeballs(and female gonads) piloting a meat sack of Theseus.

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                              Apparently we are just the brain and eyeballs(and female gonads) piloting a meat sack of Theseus.

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                              Meat sack of Theseus is an excellent band name

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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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                                My house is 1880s so that maybe, or I've got a few very old chisels and a spokeshave that are a comparable age

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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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                                  My Laptop from 2009 still works like a charm

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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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                                    My teapot probably from the 1940's

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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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                                      Refrigerator. 30 years old and still working fine. Had to change the compressor once

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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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                                        My mom bought me a little Leatherman squirt on my birthday in 2010 and I've been carrying it ever since. 15 years on it's still my most consistent EDC Carry.

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                                          Interesting, got any pics?

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                                          I went downstairs and took one just for you:

                                          His thing was that he didn't want obvious electric lights in the lobby because Aztecs didn't have electric lights. But it was decided that giant glass columns in earthquake country in the 20s was a bad idea, so they didn't do it

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