Still in use wedding presents.

My cutlery set, and glassware set. Both in use daily. 40 years next year.
Amazingly, none of the glasses have ever been broken.

I have a complete Royal Doulton dinner set, which is still in its packing crate and has never been used, 37 years down the line!

A large Denby Russet casserole dish (now minus lid), in regular use. A Silver Jubilee ashtray, at the back of a cupboard just in case. The Brabantia bread bin we still use. Our ironing board, that’s really just for show these days. A stainless steel tray with a milk jug and sugar bowl that we still use (the teapot’s long gone).. And long ago consigned to the cellar and full of outdoor toys, a hideous bright pink floral plastic laundry basket, bought for us instead of the wicker one we’d asked for because if we’d got that, apparently, our dirty underwear would have been visible through the gaps.

We don’t throw much away.

We are still using china and glasses, serving dishes, blankets, a clock and picture frames. I am sure there are other things that I have forgotten about but it is lovely to know that so many of us are still using long treasured items.

6 Pyrex casserole dishes only 1 broken lid. Pyrex dinner service which I passed on to DD it now has no June roses on it. Pyrex serving platter. Complete set of Pyrex mixing bowls, a complete canteen of cutlery and a knife block with all the knives. It's a miracle really we married in Singapore in 1970 I became an army wife and have moved at least 15 times since then.

Glasses (no full sets now), a tea set (hardly used), some casseroles, duvet covers & pillow cases and a lot of towels have all lasted from 1974 and some of them are looking a lot less dated than DH and me...

It’s the little things. I used to bring the guard at the bank where I worked half a dozen eggs a week, my mum kept hens. When I married in 1972, he gave me a set of six teaspoons. I use them every day and always think of dear old Bert.

Combination nonstick frying pan/poacher, a beautiful table centre hotplate, a Crystal flower vase and a pair of Moderna Sorrento blankets are all that spring to mind immediately but I'm sure there are others. 54 years of service. Not bad!

Yes, I’ve got plates. Not the full set....but a few pieces.

Long low teak 1966 sideboard, now used to house gizmos for the tv on the wall above.

Wedgewood dinner service, canteen of Mappin & Webb silver plate cutlery. Some towels, still in use in bits as dusters and somes, still my spare room towels.

We had a small quiet wedding (no, I was not pregnant) and therefore had few presents

Handtowels... used regularly since 1982.. they don't make 'em like that any more!!?

I have several wedding gifts still in service after 45 years Linen, towels, cutlery , dinner / tea service, vase, mixing bowls and some storage items.
I also have cake knives and forks, serving plates, trifle bowl and cake stands and tablecloths that were my parents wedding gifts 75 years ago. I think some of them may have been owned previously by the givers as it was not long after the war.

A mirror and a magazine rack

The kitchen rubbish bin.
Knife block and knives.

Two stainless steel carving dishes, spikes gone, carvers re-handled; two complete sets of cutlery; and an orange plastic laundry basket.....

An ironing board, a kitchen rubbish bin and a clock. We've been using them for 40 years now.

I also have a lovely little handmade side table with a lift-up lid (great for storing a few basic sewing items in) which was a wedding gift to my mum and dad in 1955.

The canteen of Cooper Brothers silver plate, in Jesmond pattern, that my father and mother gave us which graces our table on high days and holidays; and a Granton ham knife, that was a present from neighbours of my parents who I had known all my life, that has also been in continuous use for fifty five years. I was devastated when the original bone handle broke a couple of years ago, but I had a new one fitted at a small cutlery factory here in Sheffield and was assured it would last many more years. It will outlast me then!?

A teak sideboard with two large cupboards and three drawers. An ottoman ,recovered 30 years ago,half a dinner service,stainless steel dishes and some tupperware.Fifty six years old and outlived three husbands. The objects are 56 years old not me .!

One fruit bowl from a Habitat crockery set 47 years ago, first marriage, which lasted nine years only.

From my first marriage in 1962 I have a lovely pastry board a cousin gave me and a standing sort of triangular stainless steel grater from Heals on the Tottenham Court Rd. I also have my favourite kitchen knife and a Poole pottery tea pot. I am sure there are more bits in the cupboards too.
I have 6 tumblers my parents were given in 1938 but I don’t use those.

Cutlery I use every day. I have lost a few teaspoons and they occasionally turn up on the compost heap.
I discovered I could get replacements on ebay. The wonders of technology!
Crown Staffordshire coffee cups and saucers, still in their box, decorated with Bewick Birds, only brought out for special occasions. (I see you can buy a set for £20 on ebay!)
Towels and sheets are a bit worn after 52 years and are being replaced -or not.
A rather pretty pie-slice. An ugly set of orange table napkins. ( I should have thrown them away but they were given by a dear gt aunt)
I love your story nanarose
How come there are so many rolling pins? Is that a "thing"?

We still have the stainless steel carving plate and the knife/fork/steel that came with it. When all the DC were at home we used it most weekends but now only comes out at Christmas or when we have all the family round.

The clock wasn't really a wedding present. DH was working away in the weeks before we married and he brought it back with him so it's been with us over 40 years.

My grandma bought us a Kenwood Chefette. The stand and liquidiser are long gone put the bowl is still around and I still use the mixer and beaters as a hand whisk for cream etc.

We have a selection of glasses still in daily use. Some were our wedding gifts, and some that were wedding gifts to our parents.

Oh I forgot the rolling pin. Mother presented that to me while the bells were ringing. She gave me a wooden spoon too, both were wrapped in white ribbon(I still have that too). To be fair the rolling pin has been more use that the horseshoes and the U2R1 number plate.

In daily use since ‘68 cutlery. Had to discard the pots and pans because of new technology. Set of French porcelain for 12 people, from 2nd turn, perfect but not much used is still in cupboard.