Old things still in regular use?

We still use the coffee table I got from my DB and his wife as a wedding present in 1965 . I used to take it into the garden and sit my two DC at either end for an al fresco meal . My mother bought the children little chairs which have been used by the next generation 40 odd years later though the last DGC are lothes to allow me to hand them on to newer small family members despite them being far too big to use them now . We also still use ,every single day ,the Viners cutlery set which was also a wedding present. It has gone in the dishwasher for years. I got my grandmother's spurtle which is an impliment for stirring your porridge though I never have used it . Must hand it on to my DD .

A set of drinking glasses that were my Mil's - still in daily use.

The dining table was bought by my parents before I was born, solid oak, from the village antique shop. It weighs a ton and a half, has many little dents and a few ink stains but I am more attached to it than to any other 'thing'.

Various odds and ends. Some glasses and a handheld mixer from the 70s, some plates and bowls from the 80s.

But the oldest is my still completely original American diner table and chairs, which date from the early 50s, and so are older than I am. They look set to outlive me by a long way, to be honest.

Nacky

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I have quite a few old things still going strong including a 'peter piper' pepper mill in daily use since 1970.

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I still use my paternal GM’s cutting out scissors and pinking shears; they must be 125 years old and work perfectly.
My maternal GM’s knitting needle gauge, dating from the 1930s, is functional and beautifully decorated.

Moulinex electric carving knife 1974, still in use

I never make pastry but I can’t part with my mum’s old wooden rolling pin. Feeling sentimental and emotional today - anyone else feel like that when recovering from Covid?

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I have quite a few old things still going strong including a 'peter piper' pepper mill in daily use since 1970.

A small mixing bowl bought from Timothy White's in 1979.

I still have a pair of actually cuticle scissors which I “borrowed” from my mum about 52 years ago (when I first left home to go to university) and failed to return as they are the only nail scissors I have ever been able to get on with.
Sorry, Mum ???

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80’s Crockpot is still going strong and has as an indifferent cook seen me through the winters as it’s so easy to make delicious dinners in it.
My sewing kit was my DM’s, and has needed little updating, and an electric rollers set which again was from the 80’s and still works.

I like vintage and antique things. I still use the radio "Latvija" made in 1959. I also have a lot of dishes from the mid-20th century in my kitchen. My greatest joy is the [url=https://www.antiqon.com/en/shop/porcelain-and-ceramics/]porcelain figurine[/url] of an angel. This figurine was left to me by my grandmother. I think that such vintage things give a lot of coziness and comfort

My Kenwood Chef from early 70's, I'd be lost without it!

My parent's sofa. Bought second hand in 1950 has been in full-time every day sitting room duty all my life.

Also we have towels in use from 1950 and linen tea towels from not much after. Cutlery, serving spoons, grandmother's china in use every day...
We have plenty of old things still in regular use - and many, many more items in occasional use.

Those of us who like old/antique furniture will have been using old things that pre-date anyone we know.

A glass trifle bowl, and a measuring jug and small bowl, all bought by me before my first (1979) marriage, for my bottom drawer.
The trifle bowl only gets used on high days and holidays, but the jug and bowl are in daily use. x

A Kenwood Chefette wedding present bought in 1971 and some pieces of Chelsea design Pyrex plates from my bottom drawer in 1970 which are my "oven only" plates!

Pyrex dishes given as wedding gifts in 1967 and still in daily use.

Septimia, my story is similar. I still use my great grandmother’s rolling pin, which has been passed down and was used by my grandmother and my mother. I think it would have started being used about 1900 and has been in regular use ever since. It is beautiful to feel and use and I will pass it on to my daughter and hopefully then to one of my granddaughters.

So many things, potato masher, hand rotary mixer - one you turn the handle on - and various other kitchen utensils 50 years old, cane laundry basket, ironing board given to me for a 21st present in 1970, cutlery and one thing that I cannot break and hubby loves them is a set of glass mugs. All the rage in the 1970's here as they were supposed to be unbreakable. Well in my case that has proven to be correct.

A electric carving knife bought by my mother in law in 1970. A Kenwood electric hand mixer given to us as an engagement present in 1968.

Non-electric there are many including a silver table spoon used by my grandfather in the 1930’s; icing equipment used by my mother in law from the 1940’s; a 1950’s turkey platter, my Mums pride and joy; a glass fruit bowl which was a wedding gift to my parents in 1943: bone handled cutlery my parents in law had from the 1940’s; a biscuit barrel from my grandmothers home, I would guess 1920’s or earlier. My grandfathers garden tools, goodness knows how old, maybe the 1920’s.

I think above the previous lives of the items each time I use them.

My grandmother's rolling pin, which I inherited when my mother died.

I too have my Nans glass lemon squeezer that was bought in 1930s and a glass jelly mould. Both still in use regularly

My mother in law's glass lemon squeezer and her big glass serving bowl, used for trifles and fruit salads. Both date from at least the 1940s, according to late OH but may even have been wedding presents to his parents in (I think) 1938.

Oh, and there's a knife-sharpening steel from my grandfather's butchers shop which he sold in 1966.

The Queen