Heh. Mine’s 42, and I was six months old when it was issued. 
I do want to get one, but I was born overseas and my birth certificate is MIA.
I always travelled with the military up until I retired, or my oldest passport would be about 40. As it is, my oldest one is my first diplomatic (black) passport from about 1984, which would make it… (takes off shoes to count)…24 years old! Damn! I’ve had four others since then, including another diplo passport, an “official” (red) passport, and two tourist passports.
I first got one in… 94? Around there. Used it a few times but it was expired before I went to Italy last year so I had to get a new one.
Got my first one at 29 years old about a year and a half ago. Used it for the first time 8 months ago.
I got my current one in 2002, it is my third, and it is blank, no stamps. I only travelled to Costa Rica on it, and I guess they weren’t stamping that day. My first was from 1984, when I was 17, probably expired in 1989 or so. My second one was the one that got used a ton and a half, I had a job in tech service for a paper company, I had Asia and the Pacific Rim, the other guy had Europe, South America, and the Middle East. Up until he move to another division and I got the whole shebang for a little while. I need to find that one again and keep it safe.
I got my first one in 1987, when I was about to turn 19, because I was planning to spend a semester in Spain. (Before that, I’d only left the U.S. for Mexico, and I didn’t need a passport for that.) It expired for a few years in the middle, and I got my current one in 2000, which means it’s expiring in a couple of years. Thank goodness - the photo is terrible! Bad hair and blotchy skin. I’m looking forward to getting a new photo.
Got my first one in 1984, and about every 10 years since then.
Mine’s 40 years old, and long since lost. The wife and I both have to get new ones this winter, just because.
I’ve had mine since my family went to Mexico when I was twelve, twenty years ago. I don’t think it’s ever lapsed, although I can’t absolutely swear to it.
I’ve had one since I was 7 years old.
Mine is one year and a few weeks old, and has an awesome picture of me if I do say so myself.
Mine’s now been expired for several years (thinkthinkthink…since 2000?). When I get a chance to go abroad again, I’ll get a new one.
An awesome picture of you? How hard can that be? 
Aren’t you granted some sort of leeway for reapplying more easily if your passport’s only been expired for a certain amount of time?
You’re too kind, as usual. 
I have a hard time sitting for photos, esp. passport photos. The flash on them is way too bright, all I can think is Bilbo Baggins saying “Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!” and my face goes all scrunchy. I think the one in my passport was the fourth take or so.
Not sure. But I sent in my old passport along with my new application (and the expedited fee) during the height of “OMG Passport Applications Are Taking Six Months!” mania last year and got mine back in under two weeks.
Whether that was because I included my old passport, because of the extra fee or a combination of both, I don’t know. I was hearing that even expedited applications were taking 4-6+ weeks since everyone and their dog was paying the extra fee.
I put mine through the washer about 2 1/2 years ago. I needed one about a year and 1/4 ago. So it is about a year and 1/4.
Yeah, I didn’t realize the whole backlog nightmare had gone away. I was expecting a couple of months minimum, which is why I put in for it now even though I don’t need it until April.
I got it back in 10 calendar days.
Mines from 2000. I was about 25% lighter, and when I had stubble verging on beard (hey, it was a holiday) earlier this year I got a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong stare from a Turkish immigration official.
4 years; never had need of one before my dad and I spent a week in London in 2004. I was 35 when i got it, 36 when I used it.