Oldest thing in use in your house? ( Spouses don’t count)

The oldest things I have that I use regularly (I have other, possibly older, stuff but not in use) are the white crochet edged tray cloths and tea table cloths which I've inherited over the years. They must be Edwardian, at the very least, so over 100years old. They wash beautifully and are the only thing I iron

Not including ornaments, a little milking stool that belonged to my late MiLs mother. We used it for the children to step up to the toilet. Now it's still used for the Gc.
Then there's my Grandmother 's pagoda umbrella - it's such a beautiful shape, nice to hold & open. I've always known her to have it so probably about 70 years.

Old clocks different types DH was in antiques trade years ago and is obsessed with them they are all working still.

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Tupperware rolling pin from the 60s.
It was my mothers.
And an oak candlestick with a silver top which is around 70 years old.

My sister was using my Tupperware rolling pin this week and said she didn’t think they still existed - hasn’t had much use 😁

I use my grandma’s tea cups and they used to be her grandma’s who was born sometime in the early nineteenth century. There’s not a lot of them left now and they are a pea green colour with faded gold round the edges and I hand wash them. I am sure my kids will chuck them out when I’m gone, they don’t appreciate my old china.

A bone handled dinner knife that my Dad used as a butter knife. When he died and we cleared the place out I claimed it and we use it everyday........for spreading butter. I can actually remember it being part of the everyday cutlery we used when I was a child.

A little glass vase that I bought as a present for my mum in about 1959. Also a tea set of hers and a beautiful large bible in a box with beautiful coloured illustrations and gold leaf edging the pages. She bought it from a door to door salesman in the '50s. She paid weekly and I've no idea why she bought it when she could barely feed her children.

I wear my grandma's Engagement ring all the time, dont take it off , that must be 100 .

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A lot of my furniture is from my grandmothers house and therefore the mid Victorian era. It is far more solidly made than todays flat pack rubbish. No wonder it lasts so well.

A chest of drawers built by my GGF. He was a carriage builder on the railways. My Great Aunt had it after him, then my GM, then my DM, now me.

I have my grandmother's grandmother clock! I would guess it dates from around 1900.

I also have her dinner service which is about the same date I would think. I don't use it much but could not bear to see it go when I moved as it brings back fond memories of holidays at her seaside home as a child - and piled high plates - she was a demon cook, even though she only weighed about 5 stone!

Almost all the furniture, except for the sofa and mattresses, it is akmost all 100 years old at least and some is considerably older. The house itself is 555 years old.

My great grandmother’s wedding ring. Mid Victorian? My mother was given it by her mother in 1947 as her thin wartime wedding ring broke. Because she was pregnant, my grandmother could not allow her not to wear a wedding ring. 😱
I also use my grandmother’s stoneware salt pot to store vegetables. I was told she bought blocks of salt and broke it into useable pieces with a special hammer.

We’ve got OH’s grandads desk and a desk bureau from my family home that’s probably from the inter war years.

The oldest item belonging solely to us is a dimple roasting dish we obtained with green shield stamps before we married. OH was a smoker then and the stamps built up!

My Gran married in 1902, I still have and use some glass dessert bowls that were a wedding present.
A rolling pin from my Aunt, she was married in 1920 and bought it then, I use it all the time, although it is a bit narrow, but the wood is lovely.
A small circular wooden side table with a lift up top and a drawer that my Grandad made before he married my Gran in 1902, I have a lamp on it and odds and ends inside it, it’s a bit tatty now but I love it.

PS I also have antique textiles and crockery but they aren’t in everyday use and aren’t from family members.

Our dining table dates from about 1662. We bought it about 20 years ago.
We have furniture made by my husband’s grandfather from about 100 years ago.
We have a clock in use dated 1890.
From grandparents we have a set of bone-handled silver fish servers.
Bought from new and still in regular use are kitchen scales from 1950 ies and a food mixer from 1970.
Plenty of old stuff in this house!

I have several antique (100+years) pieces of French furniture, mirrors and bibelots, as well as Chinese articles. I like mixing old with modern. It’s the beds that are renewed but they were never antique.

A brass door stopper of a prancing horse that belonged to my grandmother, probably about 110 years old.

If my mother hadn't given it away, we would have had Sir Walter Scott's footstool. I thought it had gone to a museum in Edinburgh, but turns out my cousin now has it!

Oh, yes. I forgot about the house until reminded by MOnica. Mine's not as old as hers but is at least late 17thC. And is in daily use

My DM's big yellow mixing bowl that was brought out every Saturday morning when I was a child for the weekly pastry baking session; must be 1940s. I make my Christmas cake and puddings in it.

And I also have a Philips electric beater that I bought in 1969 when we lived in Singapore. Still works perfectly.

Also our beautiful Norwegian brushed stainless steel cutlery, also bought in Singapore about the same time; use it every day. Used to only use it for best, but it's too lovely to sit in a drawer, so it's been in every day use for a few years now.

We had a Pyrex dinner service as a wedding present in 1969. We still have the gravy boat.

I was given my OH's grandmother's enamel dish to make rice pudding in.
Rice pudding is one of his favourites but I haven't found the magic formula yet, despite having the special dish!

I also have my own G'mother's crib, nothing posh but used by her every year, and now by us for the last 40 years.
When she died my uncle held an open house and friends and relations were invited to choose a memento. Both her brothers were antiques dealers so goodness alone knows how many valuable and old things found new homes that day. I'm so glad they did - not a clutterer myself!

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I have my Mum’s trifle bowl from the 50’s in regular use. I think the oldest item I have in use is a large oval serving dish which belonged to my maternal grandmother. It must be at least 130 years old. I serve the Christmas turkey on it every year.

I have my mums trifle bowl, too. And I bet she inherited it from her mum. I was going to use it this Christmas but we weren’t going to eat the trifle in one day and I didn’t have room in the fridge for it. I do have two plastic plates that we used to use for camping in the 70’s. I use them every day to chop vegetables on etc. and I have my friend Tony’s prep school knife. No idea how I ended up with it and Tony is long since gone.