Old wedding presents still used

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I’m still using a breadboard that was a wedding present to my mother in 1945. I can just make out the pattern on the edge.

I also use my mother's old breadboard which I reckon she had in 1951, and my own breadknife which I bought in Woolworths on Oxford Street in 1970.

The only thing I have left from my wedding is him indoors. Shame there was no returnable guarantee 😁 Happy new year to everyone.

I was given a toaster as a wedding present in 1973 which I still use when toasting bagels. I have to remember though that as it’s not modern it doesn’t have a cool wall and gets extremely.hot. I was also given a set of six sherry glasses which are still all accounted for. My cousin gave me a Le Creuset Casserole dish with lid in bright orange, for my 21st which was the ‘in’ colour in the early 70’s.

My goodness, I've just realised how much "stuff" I've still got, (& using lots of it), from our wedding gifts in 1968. .

Yes, the Pyrex casseroles, Tupperware! that well used Prestige kitchen tool set, the (now little used) ironing board. bread board, china tea & coffee sets, dinner service.

I hadn't thought I was such a hoarder, my children must be worried at the quantity of skips they'll be needing!

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A Le Creuset fondue set from my MIL. Bright orange on a black cast iron base. 1973. A Le Creuset orange casserole and 4 flat orange dishes. Will have to Google what they are called.

My parents bought us a lovely old pine dresser which I am looking at covered in sparkly lights for the winter.

I love all my old things. Have very few new. (Wearing today a 15+ year old boiled wool East jacket and similar aged Wallis trousers with cosy leggings underneath).

What will happen to our old things....who will love them after me?. Both DDs have houses with their own furniture. Oh well I have loved them for more than 50 years. Hopefully I will love them for a few more.

I have 3 large casseroles, two orange and one green oval shape plus 2 large orange lasagne dishes. One orange small frying pan and 2 large blue serving dishes. all given to me in 1973/4 by a friend whose husband worked for the company.

I have a carving set, 6 Waterford crystal tumblers and a Delia Smith cookery book which were given to us as wedding presents. I still refer to Delia’s book occasionally.

DFiL gave us a very generous wedding present which we used towards a deposit on our first house in 1970.

Still in regular use is a small Old Hall stainless steel teapot, a wedding present in 1962; also still used, though not daily, are cut glass sherry glasses, tumbler and water jug and Brierley tea set. Oldest tiny sherry glasses were given in DH’s grandparents in 1890 as a wedding present in 1890 which were obviously hand me downs as they have been dated a century earlier - and never used!

Crockery, cutlery, furnishings.

My Moulinex electric carving knife was a wedding gift in 1977; the knife is still going strong - unlike the marriage, which lasted barely 10 years

Our cutlery we use every day we got 60 years ago . I bought another set but DH wanted to keep using the original one . Our kitchen utensil equally old the wooden handles are bleached white from the dishwasher . I sold my Royal Albert coffee and tea set and gave the money to Demenia Scotland in memory of th uncle who gave it to us . It was used one in 1969 for my daughter's christening .

Our Norwegian brushed stainless steel cutlery, bought bit by bit in the two years before we married, (1972) is still used everyday - we actually bought it when we lived in Singapore - still very stylish and practical.
Two glass fruit bowls brought out every Christmas.
Bits of a dinner service given to us by DH's aunt and uncle as a wedding present - not a lot of it left, but DD (who loves it) and I have shared what's left.
Pyrex casseroles, seemingly indestructible.

Kitchen scales, a wedding present from 1977, the plastic yellow with age. There are so many modern, digital versions now but I just can't bear to part with them!

Still using a cake knife that came with our wedding cake !

Cariadagain. My 3 children were all given the choice of wedding paid for or house deposit and fees. All 3 took the house option. Then about 10 years later eldest child was marrying and what happened, wedding paid for. Somehow the house money slipped by. Then the other two followed suit so same again, had to stump up to treat them all the same. Nearly needed a mortgage! But, wouldn't grudge a penny. Anyone who would have a full on wedding rather than money for a deposit especially nowadays needs counselling! My Oneida cutlery from own wedding 59 years ago is in use every day.

These are not wedding presents as such but I bought for my 'bottom drawer', some oval pyrex plates (Autum design) and a 3 way grater in which the grater blades sit on an orange wedge shaped container, and a hand whisk. All are still in use today so are at least 50 years old. I have my mums old silver plated tablespoons which I do use, these must be 70 years old. I also have one of the old cream/white mixing bowls and her rolling pin and her original Kenwood Chef. A wedding gift still in use is the cutlery but so mixed up with another set I cannot remember which is which.

Yes, lots of our wedding gifts from 56 years ago are still in use. They include a canteen of cutlery that's used daily; carving knife and fork; fruit bowl; dessert dishes; vase; magazine rack; Crown Merton saucepan (screws in lids been tightened a few times by husband); tablecloth; metal whisk. They all bring back happy memories of the people who gave them to us, most of whom sadly are no longer alive.

Potato masher, soup ladle and carving fork set which is 57 years old, and used regularly.

I still have quite a number of wedding presents still in regular use from 1971 .
The ever popular picout (sp?) tea pot and jug is still used when I have a lot of people, ironing board that gets a rare outing . I also have a lot of lovely bed linen that was my parents so 77 years old. Still used and so cool in the summer.

Like Kate1949, I still have quite a lot of my Chelsea Pattern Pyrex received as a wedding present. Still have dinner plates, steak plates (oval shape, rather than round), gravy boat with saucer, milk jug, sugar bowl, cups and saucers, one casserole dish with lid, and four small dessert/soup bowls. I use everything except the sugar bowl (I’m diabetic) and the cups & saucers (too thick).

I keep thinking of things - two stainless steel vegetable dishes, and a carving board.

I also still have 3 plates and a jug from my Hornsea pottery, and a jar opener and can opener from a Brabantia set of kitchen tools. I had the potato peeler in daily use until last year, when it disappeared- I think it fell in the food waste bin with the peelings😞

My Kenwood Chef (orange and brown 70s style) will be 45 years old in May. I wouldn’t say it’s in everyday use, as I don’t bake much anymore, but I do still use it when I do.

Our brass companion set for the fire in our first home. Still use it for the log burner

Like many, I still regularly use my ironing board. A wedding present in 1967 also bread board with knife, stainless steel carving platter, stainless steel canteen Elkington cutlery (for best occasions!). Not in use every day, but still have cut glass vase, and sets of tumblers, sherry glasses, multicoloured highball glasses with matching jug, two sets of large glass bowls with small individual dishes, various Pyrex serving dishes, china 6 piece tea set and bone handled carving set.
Quite a surprise listing so many!!

2006!!! I really had gone back in time
Best wishes, of course, for 2026

My Dualit toaster, bought 14 years ago, lasted two years until it burst into flames. While it lasted it was no better than any others I've had. All have left one side of the bread untoasted.

I have loved this thread. I have a couple of Pyrex dishes left from a set bought for my wedding in the mid-70s. Also a Le Creuset gratin dish bought by my boss at the time. If I had put it on the shelf in the Le Creuset shop I visited in the 02 yesterday it wouldn't have looked out of place.
My daughter now has a set of lovely blue and cream washed stoneware mugs that my mother bought for me from a Del boy trader in Covent Garden market in the months leading up to my wedding.
It was during the period when the fruit and veg traders had relocated to Nine Elms and the area was about to be refurbished to become the tourist attraction it is now. It was then just an ordinary street market - with lots of good bargains to be had.
My mother worked for the MoD in Whitehall and I worked opposite St Clement Danes church, where Fleet Street meets the Strand, and we would meet at lunchtime to shop and chat. This has brought back such memories of that time and my dear mother.
I also have things from my mother's house, as well as my husband's mother's and grandmother's, so the cupboards are full!

Best wishes for the New Year and all of 2006, everyone.