What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
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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.
Honorable mention for my truck. 1997 F-150. Turns 28 this year, just put a rebuilt motor in it, hoping for another 20 years.
A pair of toe-nail clippers my grandfather gifted me. I'm guessing late 1940s. As far as I can tell, it was something he bought from the on-base military store as things were winding down after WW2. It's rugged in a way you wouldn't expect - it was clearly built to last, well, indefinitely. Has this excellent leather carrying case in military olive green that is also wildly over-designed. Not flashy, just built to last.
It really makes me appreciate - we used to know how to make things here (USA). And we were so good at it, even the dumb little things could be built to last.
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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.
One of my bike's is 30 years old, and I use it all the time.
But as far as oldest stuff I still use, probably things like certain furniture, tools, and kitchen stuff, which would have been inherited from grandparents who have long passed.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My violin was made in 1614, but to be honest I use my practice violin daily and use that as my concert violin, and tune and play it 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.
kitchen radio. It is one of the first portable tube radios, built 1958 or 1968 (dont remember). Internals died a few times, retro-fitted by a UKW radio receiver, then an MP3 player, now its a Raspi radio. It runs most of the time if I am at home
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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.
Your mom
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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.
Oldest thing I use frequently may be a 100~ year old ring.
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Looks dangerous as fuck but pretty cool!
How? We have stairs like this near a few pubs and restaurants. Though made of metal.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My house but it isn't really that old, around WW2.
Although I have some games that are 100s or even 1000s of years old, but that is a set of rules rather than a physical thing.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My dining room table was originally owned by my great grandmother and was passed down through the family and transported almost 2000km to it's current location in our house.
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My Laptop from 2009 still works like a charm
What operating system?
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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.
I have a cupboard from 1789. I use it to store stuff, so yeah, I use it every day.
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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.
A spoon. One Sterling Silver spoon that I have used in my coffee cup since 1978. It has survived every move. It knows more about me than any human on Earth. It has become so ubiquitous that I get really annoyed if I misplace it and I will look for it before that first cup.
I have no idea why.
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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.
My pocket mirror had a copyright date of 1914, but it's reasonable to assume it's a bit newer than that. It's probably around 100 years old.
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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.
My knees
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I have a Brazilian bottle opener that was a marketing gift from a store. The phone number has 4 digits.
Is it any different than regular bottle openers?
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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.
Does anyone have any tips on how to tell them apart?
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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My violin was made in 1614, but to be honest I use my practice violin daily and use that as my concert violin, and tune and play it weekly.
wrote last edited by [email protected]How paranoid are you about dropping it or falling while holding it? That's literally what I think every time I hear about instruments like this.
That would be among the few things left over from the age of knights and the black death (or the end of that period, anyway), and even modern instruments can be unbelievably valuable.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]A 1797 George III Cartwheel penny, and some other old English coins. I don't use them as such, but I look at them daily. It's a great distraction from trivial issues to look at them on my desk and wonder how many people have owned them and what the owners bought with them.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]A stove spatula my mom had in the 1940s. Not daily but I use it routinely. I hand wash it instead of putting it through the dishwasher.
We also have my wife's grandmother's old, completely out-of-tune standup piano. Nobody in our house plays piano. We use it to take up space, accumulate clutter, and make sure that area of the room is unusable.
