Old things still in regular use?

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.

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'.

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 bookcase made around the 1840s that came from mum’s maternal line plus a chiffonier now owned by DD2. 5 G plan chairs from the 1950s. I’m not sure what happened to the sixth one but I’ve recovered them 3 times and they’re still going strong. They belonged to mum and dad, with sideboard and table but those went a long time ago. DD1 in NZ has two balloon back chairs and my father’s favourite parker knoll armchair, also reupholstered.

I too have a bread-board. It's older than I am, so it's well over 70. Likewise the bread bin; the old-fashioned white & blue enameled type. Both used by my parents before I was born, and used by me all my life.

Myself & him indoors - 60s kids - still chugging along, and our children all born in the 90s are working just fine, no maintenance needed! ??

My ironing board belonged to my grandmother who died before I was born. It was made by my grandfather and is solid oak. Weighs a ton but far better than a flimsy aluminium one. The padded top has been replaced several times.

My favourite trowel dates from the late 1950s.

I water my houseplants with a Tupperware jug from the early 1960s.

Actually most things in our house are quite old

A Prestige hand held rotary whisk with a teak handle and a melamine tray, both wedding presents in the late 70’s and both still used regularly.
I also have a lovely knitted tea cosy that my Grandma knitted for me over 40 years ago! I’d hate to part with any of them.

My beautiful dessert spoons which an aunt bought me on my first marriage. Very old. I envy the pastry maker and cream mason bowl though.

HettyBetty I'd forgotten about the Tupperware items! I still have a few, including a jug for the fridge door & a couple of tools for using with eggs. (One to remove boiled eggs from the saucepan & the other to separate a white from a yolk. They were both prizes at a Tupperware party!)

I have loads of things from my grandmother and beyond, including a cast-iron soup pot, various kitchen utensils, embroidered table cloths, gardening tools, dressmaking artefacts, singer sewing machine 1902, jewellery, cutlery, crockery, glassware, vases, oak home-made tray with handles, jugs, books, lace pillowcases and many more bits and pieces.

1957 car still going strong and a carving set (wedding gift ) 53 years ago. There’s more I’m sure, we don’t throw much away.

I do have one Charles and Diana tea towel too....

I still have two Oldstrom saucepans which I treated myself to in the late ninety sixties. One cost £6 and the other £8. You can still buy them but soo expensive. They still look really good.

Set of Salter weighing scales with weights. Still love using it. My mother in law’s Mason cash mixing bowl, and an old food processor from 1987 given to me new from my sister in law..

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Another Kenwood here - an electric hand mixer used every day and still going strong. Received as a present in 1971.

I too have a Kenwood electric hand mixer still going strong.
I think I bought it around 1967.

A stainless steel carving dish which was a wedding present 50+ years ago.

A Coronation spoon used for sugar, given to all children at my primary school (DH says he cannot give up sugar in tea and coffee).

Tupperware flour storage canisters, bought at the first Tupperware party I went to as a newly wed 50+ years ago.

Corningware from 1974. I used a crockpot from 1974, but got rid of it four years ago when I downsized to a condo.

Old things still in regular use ? Me

A Pyrex roasting dish given as a wedding present in 1972

A portable pale blue Singer sewing machine, from 1968. Simple but works perfectly. Was told by a technician that these older machines are Rolls Royces of the category as they contain no plastic bits and pieces. All solid steel!

MrsKen33

Old things still in regular use ? Me

Every time I read the thread title I think the same!

Maw. Great minds…..

Tupperware rolling pin and butter dish from the early 60s,which belonged to my mom.
And todays butter actually fits.