What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
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I have a Grundig radio my grandparents bought in the fifties. It's completely restored and I had the aux changed to a mini jack, so I can play stuff on it over Bluetooth.
Can it still receive regular radio too?
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I have a ninja turtle cereal bowl from when I was a kid that I still use. It's from 1988.
How faded is 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.
I have a drip coffee maker that's gotta be almost 40 now. It was given to me by an older family member when I moved into a new apartment. It still works fine as far as I can tell...
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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 teeny tiny screwgate carabina from about 1997 that I use as a key ring.
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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.
The foundation of the building I live in is from the 1880’s. Does that count?
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The foundation of the building I live in is from the 1880’s. Does that count?
1640s here!
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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.
The US still does build things, just mostly expensive things.
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House is 123 years old, I have a couple of cast-iron pans that are civil war era, still get regular use.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ugh, I grew up in a house of similar age. It's amazing how outdoors a nominally indoor space can be. The layers of history those places have can be neat, though.
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Our staircase was built over two centuries ago, and still does its job!
wrote last edited by [email protected]Mmm, delicious non OSHA-compliance. No handrails, no problem!
I'm fascinated with those joints. Are they nailed at all, or is it just held together by gravity, friction and the exterior walls?
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How? We have stairs like this near a few pubs and restaurants. Though made of metal.
wrote last edited by [email protected]If you tripped, there's not much to grab onto, and it looks both steep and very uneven.
I would have no problem climbing this myself. Habitually climbing it carelessly and/or while burdened would present some risk, though, and it's probably not going to be great for grandma. We don't build like this anymore out of inclusion, a higher level of value on life and just not wanting or needing to have architecture that requires skill to use.
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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.
Expensive piece of kit! I assume you're a professional musician?
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Alarm clock I bought at the end of 2006 or early 2007. About 18 years ago
Hmm, do you literally only own things you bought new?
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1640s here!
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What, it's not built on a Roman wall? Boooring. /s
It's crazy to me how commonplace truly deep history is over the pond. Like, there's been multiple different cities in the same place at different times, basically.
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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
I still have a clock radio from the 1970s around. No repairs needed, it's amazing the difference no moving parts makes.
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Apparently we are just the brain and eyeballs(and female gonads) piloting a meat sack of Theseus.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm guessing metabolism causes the matter in a brain cell to turn over pretty often, even, and new neurons continue to grow throughout your life. Tooth enamel is the only part I know you can be reasonably sure is the same atoms as it's always been. Eye lenses might have some chemically durable portion, I suppose.
A person is like a river. Always the same thing, but always changing.
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You lucky bastard!
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My Laptop from 2009 still works like a charm
wrote last edited by [email protected]You have me beat by a bit if you're still daily driving it. OS support is getting hard, though.
Wirth's law seems to have passed Moore's law sometime around 2010. Or maybe we just ran out of non-gaming problems that are computationally hard. Either way, hardware from the time that isn't physically broken is still quite usable, if you've escaped from the proprietary software treadmill.
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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.
I read that as "stone spatula" and thought that thing was ancient
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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've got this little blue plastic cup I've had for almost 30 years. Use it for my toothbrush. Got it when I was a kid and it's the only toothbrush holder I've ever had since.
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Hah! I don't know if it's because of how old the wood is, but it's not very splintery, it has a smooth fossilised feel even though it's so uneven.
Yeah, I'm sure anything that would have splintered off already has by now with how worn it looks. It shouldn't be an issue now unless a chunk breaks off.
