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

A China milk jug that belonged to my grandmother which has “think of me” written on it. I know mum was a young girl when she remembers it being used and acquired it on her mum’s passing. I now have it. No idea of its age but possibly over 90

Candlesticks, well over 100 years old, brought over from Europe 1939. Candles are lit in them every Friday, just as my ancestors did.

i have a small wine glass with the date 1893 engraved on it

My maternal grandfather’s silver tablespoon he used as a baker shortly after he left school. One side is worn away from use.

I also use my ma in laws electric knife, it was one of the first on the market. When I could wield a piping bag I used her icing piping nozzles which are older than Mr C.

We were given a hand mixer for a wedding gift in 1969, it’s still going strong and still causes amusement when we recall the giver was a former boyfriend who liked to stir.

My Victorian tip top kitchen table that is used daily.

Probably old family photos, going back to the time of the first world war.
A glass trifle bowl from around 1920’s.
Sherry glasses, same era.

My great-grandmother’s ruby engagement ring from 1890. I wore it once and lost it. I was lucky enough to have it returned and I haven’t worn it since (40 years).

I inherited a mahogany bureau and handsome chest of drawers, both well over a hundred years old. Sadly, my family don't want them, and neither do antique dealers because, after all these years, they have some flaws. There is a local ReFurnish store, but I know from experience that dealers buy antique items for a song and sell them on at much higher prices. If only younger people appreciated fine wood, brass handles, dove tailed joints and durability. Meanwhile, they remain the
oldest items in my house.
I also have a riding whip that was given to my mother when she was six. That must have been in 1912. And she told me she hated learning to ride!

Like others, we have various spoons and knives from my parents kitchen but we have a bookcase we made from my granny’s oak bed head. When we were married first we had the bed - 2 oak ends with a metal ‘spring’ between for the mattress. When we got a proper divan we made the bookcase at woodwork class. It has served to hold grandchildren’s’ toys and books since they started arriving.

A quilt my paternal grandmother hand quilted when I was born. My first name is embroidered on one corner. I'm 76. I'm sitting in bed right now with it covering me. I had it in a box for years and finally started using it a couple years ago.

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.

Fish fossil and Babylonian cylinder seal

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.

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.)

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

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

Probably the house itself!

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.

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.