Pans

Pans People.
I wish I'd kept some of my mum or daughter's pans, actually. Yours are particularly sparkling looking, fgt.

My mum had the same set of prestige pans her whole life, a wedding present in 1956, she dies in 2024. Now I use them and still going strong. They made things to last back in the day. No need tot throw something out if it still works and the replacement is likely to be shoddy in comparison

I too am looking at lots of old stuff because I like it, and because in many instances it came from other family members, often no longer with us. I have and still use for example my grandparents’ bread board. A wedding present to them in 1926. Attractive, functional, with happy memories. Ideal!

Oh, and I meant to add that l love to think of people who gave us household items that we still usr.

Another in the no landfill where possible group here. We were married in 1989 - it's our 37th anniversary next week. We are still using wedding presents and I have a number of items that belonged to my late grandmother and my mother has passed on things. Most of our furniture is second hand - much of it from charity shops. It is genuine mid-century and a lot of it is Nathan, which has not come back into fashion in the way that Ercol has but the quality is second to none. We have spent a few hundred pounds on our furniture over the years but even if it were possible to buy new furniture of the same quality today, it would cost £20,000 plus. I am pleased to say that our three adult children are similarly thrifty and, at university stage, we scoured the charity shops and car boot sales for essential items, as well as passing on some of ours. At my daughter's university, they had an excellent scheme whereby graduates could leave behind some of their things for incoming students who could barely afford to buy them for themselves.

I bought a Ninja Small frying pan in TKMAXX and it’s brilliant!
keep looking for more of their stuff but so far no luck
def recommend. Just wipe it clean - it goes on and on.

We also have set of Prestige ss. Copper bottom pans. Wedding present 1972 going strong

Also still using my very solid ironing board which was a wedding present. One of my DD’s wants to ‘ inherit ‘ it as it is so much more solid than the one she has,

I’m still using one of a set of pans that we got in a wedding present fifty seven years ago, and a hand mixer that I bought in the eighties. Two other pans that I still use were bought in the late eighties.

My mother died in 2010 and I inherited some of her very stylish "mid-century" furniture which they bought in the 1960's. I have a large, round, wooden tulip table which I love. Sadly the leather chairs that were used with it have disintegrated and I've not been able to find anybody to recover them.
I've had three new induction hobs over the past few years, and they all came with nice sets of stainless steel pans which I've distributed around my family!

i have a marble rolling pin that i won in the prize bingo game in 1985, it was a set with a marble cheese board (no idea what happened to that) i still use it, not for baking as it is only me, but it is great for cruching up a ripple or flake to put over my ice cream.

It's wonderful to see that so many people treasure old things and are not concerned about acquiring new things for the sake of it.
I have many old things too:- a wooden plant stand and some framed embroidered pictures made by my grandfather more than 60 years ago, some white towels that were wedding presents to my parents 77 years ago, an electric hand whisk given to me by my mother sometime before she died almost 40 years ago.
I did buy a Kenwood Chef food mixer which expired last year after 40 years.
I love all my old things, they all have a story
Unfortunately none of the younger people in my family seem interested in having anything other than brand new.
My latest thrill is Vinted. I have , in the couple of weeks since I joined, had a few amazing purchases.

I do still use a Moulinex food processor given as a wedding present in 1982. DH had to fix the switch on it some years ago, but it’s been fine ever since. It has got many different attachment blades which I’ve kept in the drawer although I have only ever used one😂

I had great stainless steel pans which we got as a wedding present and were still going strong 3 years ago when we got a new kitchen. Unfortunately I had to send them to the charity shop because they didn’t work on the induction hob. I was sorry to do so, but as stated on another thread, have no regrets about the induction hob. The new pans though are already showing signs of wear and tear, I should have spent more and got better quality.

Still using our Crown Merton set of 4 saucepans, a wedding present in 1969. Husband has replaced knobs on 2 of the saucepan lids. Still using same egg poaching pan with the 4 holders, and steamer with lid that sits on top of saucepan when we have smoked haddock.

I'm still using moms blender which was bought as a wedding present in 1950. I halesowen salted kitchen scales with two bowls which are extremely useful which someone bought for our wedding in 1974 and I'm still using the same cutlery which I bought piece by piece before we got married..

I've never made jam since I left home - we used to make it from the "seconds" from our soft-fruit fields & buying it (or even PYO) seemed extravagant for jam!
But I occasionally make marmalade.

AgS: I have my mother's (aluminium) preserving pan - only ever used it for boiling handkerchiefs!!

I also have an almost brand new Lakeland preserving pan. Bought 6 years ago just before I knew I had cancer. So hardly used. It needs to go as I won't be making marmalade again.

I shall try and sell it, before donating it.

I’ve just remembered I also have my mums old jam making pan which I did use every year but for the past few I’ve not made jam or preserves. I may well pass it on. It’s a big round silver solid pan with handle.

I’m pleased to be joined by so many of you who are not in the ‘unnecessary landfill’ community!

That said I suppose unless we keep spending and supporting the economy that’s bad too 🤷‍♀️

Fallingstar...maybe someone bought them. Our charity shops often sell old pans and single pans..not part of a set. But we are a uni town so maybe students buy them.

I donated my mothers old hand operated Singer sewing machine to a church where they were sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo for young women to learn to make clothes to sell. I do hope it ended up in the right place and was used.

My mother would have been so pleased. I put in the box lots of cotton reels of bright coloured threads which were mum's as well as a few from my stash.

I had some lovely pans, one was really big with a thick bottom for jam making, but when we got an induction hob hardly any of them were compatible. I inherited the pans from my mum and two aunties when we got our first house in the mid seventies. Were married a couple of years before but we lived with my husband’s parents.
I gave the pans to a charity shop, but was told by a friend who is a volunteer in another charity shop that they probably chucked them because nobody wants old pans.
Was quite sad about it 😔

I like things that have an heirloom quality and a provenance. Too any things these days don’t last.

I have a serrated bread knife which was, with a bread board, one of my parents' wedding presents. So it must be 86 years old. Still the sharpest knife I have. The board I still have but it has got a split in it so I use a new wooden board from J Lewis. And also the green enamel bread tin is in daily use. The same age.