1921 Revere clock. Powered by Telechron. My sister has the one that was a wedding gift to our grandparents. Plugged to 60 cycles, it never loses time, and has a little red dot to tell you the power was off. Sunbeam mixMaster from the late 40s. It juices and grinds, too. Oster blender from early fifties- two speeds, on, and off. Our microwave is about 16 years old, I’ve repaired it once. Dishwasher ditto. The washer stood down most of the winter (it’s only 6 years old). Finally discovered it was just a loose connection to the motherboard, just minutes before giving up and ordering a new one. (Just the house call out in the boonies here is expensive- and the online helpers all agreed the motherboard was the problem. Replacement board was $15 less than new washer) We use the old stuff because it works. That washer? I had already replaced the door switch and the water pump.
Is a bong an appliance?
Damn, we’ve got some real Luddites on this board! My oldest appliance is a 20-year old Kitchenaid mixer. The oldest electronic item would be the TV I bought in about 2007.
I have a Phase Linear pre amp and receiver from the 70s that I still use. It looks awesome.
My mom still has one of those. I told her she’d better leave it to me in her Will. Best. Stapler. Ever. (And yes, she has several dozens of boxes of staples for it, too.)
The place I’m renting was built in the early 80’s - the dishwasher is original. Still works just fine, too. I think the fridge is original too. Oh - and my husband has a trash compactor that he got from his mom’s condo after she died - that thing goes back to the 70’s. We couldn’t find bags for it but turns out, Hefty bags work just fine. It’s great for crushing cans to take to the scrap guy.
Clock radio from the late 80’s or early 90’s. All new appliances now but just this weekend gave away a crock pot that was at least 25 years old. Before I moved into my current house I had one of those 30 year old Amana microwave ovens that my parents gave me when they moved to FL.
Hmm. My husband designs, builds and sells tube amps, so you’d think there would be something really old that’s still in use in the house. I remember asking him this question when it came up in a previous thread and being disappointed, though. I think he has some speakers from the 1970s. The runner-up would be our toaster oven, which is vintage 90s.
Just remembered something else - I have an electric frying pan that I got from my mom that she and my father got when they got married as well as a heating tray you’d use on a buffet - they go back to the 50’s. I don’t use them OFTEN, but I use them. And they still work great.
My Singer sewing machine dates from December 1940- I still have the receipt.
It belonged to my Great-Uncle’s neighbour; it had been in the attic for ages, and my Aunt gave it a check over and trial before it was passed on to me, and commented that the electric pedal was quite easy to use, maybe she’d get a modern electric one too :eek:
I’ve got a clock radio in my office that I quit using at home because the alarm was wonky, but it displays the time just fine. It’s a Sony, c. 1985. I have a few antique lamps, including a Tiffany with the original wiring, but they’re probably not what the OP was thinking of.
Speaking of Sony, we have a television that works wonderfully from the early 1990s but I’d really rather have a nice flat panel with all the modern inputs. The picture, though, really is good.
I wish I had my grandmother’s KitchenAid mixer! It was yellow and probably from the 1940s, maybe earlier, based on how beat up it looked when I was kid in the '60s.
I own and use regularly a Sunbeam Mixmaster from the 50s. The main house clock is a Pam (advertising Squirt). All my land-line phones are vintage, including a chrome 50s pay phone, an Ericophone, and a heavy-assed desk phone from the 30s. It’s the one you want to be talking on if someone breaks in-you could whack them over the head and go back to talking, it’s that solid!
I used to have a more vintage stereo system, but the stuff wore out or became obsolete. My 1985-vintage speakers had the cones completely rot away last year, and my Yamaha cassette deck (1985) had the drive belts wear out about 10 years ago, and I figured it wasn’t worth the money to repair in this digital age.
My primary camera forever used to be a Minolta from 1978, but I switched to digital about 5 years ago and never went back. It’s still a good camera.
I have original Atari Star Wars, Tempest and Battlezone that I still play regularly.
I still have (and use) my VCR from 1990-ish. I have a backlog of movies that I recorded starting about 1995 that I should get to any day now…
I don’t use it often because I don’t bake often, but I have the hand mixer that was given to my parents as a wedding gift in 1966. The company, “Dominion”, has been out of business for years. It still works great and I get to lick the batter off the beaters like I did when I was a kid.
I also have and use a small metal stapler that belonged to my grandfather. He passed away in the '50’s, when my mom was 9, so the stapler is likely from the 1940’s.
You got me beat. I have a power supply I built in 1976, I pulled it out to use a couple of years ago to play with a clock I built around 1990. My neighbor and I built Heathkit walkie-talkies around 1967, but mine is long gone. Other than that I just tossed a fax machine from around 1990, I used that maybe 5 years ago to receive a fax. Our first microwave did last 30 years, but went off to the big appliance store in the sky in 2007.
That big-box retailer in the sky, huh? 
I have a Grundig shortwave receiver that I purchased in 1995 that still works. However, I don’t use it that much as my current Internet radio receives many more stations and is far more useful. I also have a Kodak instant camera that I purchased when I was in the military that works ( I put batteries in it to see about a year ago).
But Kodak stopped making film for it decades ago, so it’s next to useless.
My old man still rocks a Westinghouse 1963 pocket transistor radio in a little leather case when he’s out in the yard away from the one that plugs into the wall.
As for me… nothing I have is very old; I think the single oldest thing I have and use is my grandfather’s old 1960s or 1970s era Craftsman router and router table. Otherwise, everything dates from the mid-late 1990s or more recently.
Our Christmas tree stand. I think it counts because it plugs in, rotates the tree, supplies power to the lights, and plays music. It is from 1953. My in-laws gave it to us when we started having Christmas at our house, and I have been maintaining it and fixing it when necessary ever since.
My cassette deck is from 1978.
1940s Kamico amplifier. I thought it was a '49, but someone told me '46. Either way, it’s old and it has those crazy tubes with the shoulders that look like something from Frankenstein’s lab.
Nice, beats my Carver M-1.5t, from about '83-'84 (it’s the one labeled as 1200 watts on the front panel, before the FTC made them change the advertised power rating, as it’s really a 350 watt/channel(continuous power) amp).
Other than that, I’ve got a Hunter Century fan from the '50’s, been in my family longer than air conditioning. Don’t use it regularly, though.