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

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.

Me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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 😁

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

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.

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

My GGGrandparents mahogany bookcase, made in the 1830s, a pair of china dogs and a pair of putees probably Derby c.1740.

My favourite though is a big red enamel teapot bought in the early 1970s that I used to make tea for all the family.

Grandmadinosaur you were writing about your turkey plate while I was writing about mine !

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 a small occasional table in my bedroom that belonged to my grandparents. They married in the 1930s so no idea how old it is exactly.
I also have an oval serving plate that has been handed down in my husbands family again no idea how old it is. It gets used once a year for the Christmas Turkey.

My godmother's bed sheets which she left us in her will. About 70 years old and the cotton quality is amazing. My late grandmother's Christmas tree decorations - again about 70 years old.

My mums mixing bowl. Two glass trifle bowls from my aunts. Three tablecloths from the aunts. All still going strong.

Pammiel 🤗😘

When I was a little girl our neighbor gave me some Christmas decorations, plastic angels, they are still put on the tree every year, I’ve had them over sixty years, and I don’t know how long she had them.

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

Pammie1 - same as you. Most of my stuff is only about 20 years old as i had to start again after a divorce.

Me !!

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I have a griddle that I use to make welsh cakes. I know it was my grandmothers and she told me it was her mother in laws, so at least 100 years old.

I have one too. Very heavy. Will probably last forever.

Chest of drawers left by my mother in law when they moved out and we moved in.
Dark colour but use it daily.

A tablespoon that used to be my Mum's. And a food hand-mixer that we were bought for our wedding 37 years ago.

A pottery house perfume burner belonging to my great gran x2. and a cow milk jug.