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

I have had to do heavy downsizing a couple of times in my life, but I still use a chest of drawers and a set of chairs that my parents received as wedding presents - so over seventy years old. Another chest holding stationery and light bulbs was given to my mother in the 1930s. There's a Victorian barometer up on the wall which is in working order and currently forecasting rain (mind you if it was stuck on that it would still be right two days out of three ☹️.)

My grandmother’s rocking chair from the 1890’s

A mid victorian sideboard handed down in the family and still very useful.

Probably my house itself! Dates from 1700s.

I like brown Victorian furniture, does that count? A small milking stool which I use as a tiny coffee table - it came into the family in C 1854 when a Carmarthenshire lass married into the family.

Some lovely pudding spoons that are shell shaped that my father brought home from America during the 2nd world war.

A cactus that belonged to DH’s granny. Must be at least 100 years old.

A silver sugar scoop handed down from my parents which dates back to the 1950s and a patchwork shoulder bag, each patch a different colour of leather that I bought in the late 1960s.

I use a little metal bone handled knife every day.that I understand was from early 1800s. Not silver just base metal so worth nothing but it must hold my families DNA for several generations so to me its priceless.

Oldest in use : probably my great-grandmother's linen napkins. They are at least 120 years old, probably 130 to 140 years. Yes I use them, not every day (we have regular cotton napkins for daily use) but when we have a festive occasion or friends coming over for dinner etc. Those napkins have become somewhat thin but are still perfectly intact.

A very simple, all metal peeler that I bought in France about 40 years ago and it is still as sharp, effective and easy to use as it was when I first put it into action.

My paternal grandmother s aspidistra plant. She was born in 1874, married at 21 and the plant lived in a china pot in her front room window all her married life. It was passed on to my mother who got shot of it as soon as she could to me. I've nearly killed it a couple of times but it's now thriving and I've potted up a baby one as a back up.

Probably the house itself!

I have a marmalade peel cutter, it must be over 100 years old as it was my great grandma’s and still works well.

Teaspoons my Mum got as a wedding present in 1939,my grandma’s rolling pin plus tiny white jug beautifully painted with apple blossom from my husband’s Grandma’s,love them all

Have this week been using my mother in laws marmalade mincer made by spong. Am sure it is old as I inherited it over 40 years ago and have used it every january ever since.

I have a silver spoon produced by a Canadian cocoa company. It has their logo on the bowl of the spoon, and a lady carrying a tray with a cup of ( presumably ) cocoa on the handle. My aunt ( then aged twenty ) was working in Canada and sent the spoon home on the occasion of my mother’s birth in 1925. My nine year old DGD has her eye on it!

My grandmother’s mixing spoon- she had it for at least 15 years before she died (in 1984) the bowl tip was worn into a flattish angle when I inherited it. that year. I won’t mix my Yorkshires with anything else!

My husband uses a hand mincer his parents gave him (that they had when they married in 1934) They had bought it second hand. It’s still in good condition.

Glasses from the pub owned by my great-grandparents in the 1890s.

2 ivory bone handled butter knives, belonged to my mum and nan, and i am 77yrs. Could not spread bread without them.
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My MIL's dining table - over 100 years old, now painted but still going strong, despite daily use. (They just don't make furniture like that any more.)

My grandparents were born in the late 1870’s and married in 1909. My grandmother’s tapestry fire screen is framed and on the wall, and her tea cosy is still in use, as are her crocheted doilies.

Fish fossil and Babylonian cylinder seal

I have a cherry dresser with hand forged square nails. It came via covered wagon from Virginia. My ancestress WALKED so this furniture could go to Missouri. In this family, we value our "stuff". I also have a plate that has been handed down in my mother's family and was mentioned in a will in the late 1600s. My grandson loves family history, and has already asked for the dresser and a grandmother clock we have.