The other day I noticed that my microwave-safe Tupperware bowl was starting to spot a bit, and I realized that I bought the bowl about 45 years ago. I estimate I’ve used the bowl about 15,000 times.
What things do you have that have stood the test of time?
I have 2 Tupperware bowls that I ate my breakfast from as a 6 year old, I’m now 41. My 14 year old now eats her breakfast from them.
You realize those Tupperware bowls are life time warrantied…find a Tupperware sales person and they will replace it free…be prepared…they will convince you to have party…they are true sales persons!!
“Test of time” is somewhat ironic, as I wear the same watch I’ve worn for 35 years. It’s a Lorus Quartz, nothing special, but as long as it has a battery, it just keeps working, and shows no signs of giving up.
Well, my daily driver is a 2002 Saturn w/ 252000 miles on it.
I have a Casio FX-451 calculator I bought in 1984 that I still occasionally use.
Also in 1984, I built a wood clock in shop class at high school. The cheap clock movement (powered by a AA battery that I replace every few years) still works to this day.
I have a 2002 Toyota Echo and a 1999 Ford Ranger still both humming along.
My alarm clock was a cheap, AA battery powered one bought around 1995 and it’s still going.
I bought my hiking/work boots 35 years ago and they’re still wearable and used.
Kitchen stool/step ladder. I think my parents got it around the time they married so… over 60 years old
The desk my computer sits on (and that I’m sitting in front of right now) is 75 years old this year.
My sewing machines is a 1910 Singer. Still working.
Have an heirloom book passed down through the family, still in good condition, over 160 years old.
I have a spinning wheel 175 years old, still working.
Probably have some more old stuff I’m still using. My family tends to buy decent quality and take care of our stuff.
I have a watch, originally a gift, that hasn’t been off my left wrist in twenty years, including the time I spent having an MRI. My plan is to never remove it, even after I die.
It’s a tattoo
We’ve got 100+ year old furniture (dining room and chairs) in the house. Granted, it doesn’t see daily use these days but I would say it still sees occasional use. We’ve got a microwave used daily that the original owner purchased in 1989. My good winter gloves were given to me during the Carter administration.
I just had to replace my Teva sandals that I bought in 1985.
I’ve been using my Revereware saucepans for 15 years now. My mother’s been using hers for 45.
I got a Black&Decker Workmate in 1977. It’s spent half it’s life outdoors. Only a couple of years ago the plastic parts began to break and the top is no longer adjustable, so it’s just a simple stand I use for my chop saw now. I got a new one and it’s nowhere near as good as the old one, it’s shaky, the tops don’t align right, it’s pretty much just a table.
We got a Rubbermaid stepstool around 1990 that cracked in one of the leg braces just this year so it’s no longer stable. The replacement seems just as good, maybe a little sturdier.
Upright freezers amaze me. These things last forever, even longer than chest freezers for some reason. I think in home usage the door is rarely opened and they are so well insulated the compressor will take a long time to wear out. The one in the basement we don’t even use anymore was also purchased around 1990.
And of course, axes. My grandfather’s axe is over 100 years old.
My mom still has the high chair she used for me and my brother. I’m now 50 and my brother is soon to be 52. The arms and tray part are gone but she still uses it at her kitchen counter to sit on and read the paper or whatever.
My KitchenAid mixer is 25 years old, as is my KA food processor.
My Klein tools are the same age.
I have an Austrian wall clock from the 1800s that keeps on ticking.
Did he use it to rebuild ships?
I’m still using the Radio Shack telephone I bought back in 1983.
My KA mixer is also about 25 years old. Ma’s will be either 44 or 45 this Christmas - she and her sisters each got one from Grandmother in either 1972 or 1973. All 3 still work fine. Ma has loaned hers to The Boy, but she has a backup: Grandmother’s, which is at least 55 years old. Maybe 60.
I use my father’s Black and Decker circular saw frequently. I think he got it for Father’s Day in 1972. It’s a PITA to adjust cut depths and change blades, but it seems to be immortal. Ditto for lots of hand tools - I know that a lot of the shop’s contents were Daddy’s, Grand daddy’s, and Grandpa’s, and maybe a few wood planes and such that were inherited from great-grandfathers.
The little 1995 Toyota pickup might be the best $900 I ever spent. It was a friend’s company truck for 16 years, The Boy drove it and bashed it around for 2 years as a first vehicle, it’s now Girl 2.0’s first car, it hauls trash and furniture and whatever. It’s not pretty, you have to know how to get in and out (one interior door handleworks, and one exterior, and one window crank lives in the door pocket,) but 'ol Taco is a great little truck!
I’m 54 and still use a palm sander, electric drill and quick square that belonged to my grandfather and were passed down through my father. They have each seen a lot of use and just keep going.
Oh, and my daily driver is a 1985 Nissan 300zx!
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I inherited a set of three Pyrex mixing bowls that my mom got as a wedding present. There are three of them that nest in each other, sort of look like this: https://img0.etsystatic.com/156/0/6839488/il_340x270.1201610190_sinx.jpg
No chips despite decades of use, not even being particularly careful with them. Slight scratches/scuffs on the external paint and that’s all. That old Pyrex was something else! I still use them and love them. They may outlive me, even.
I have aS&W Model 15 revolver. It’s the weapon that I carried when I was a deputy sheriff back in the 70s. It was worked on by a top-notch gunsmith and has about a three pound pull on double-actions, smooth as glass.
I don’t know how many thousands of round I have fired with this pistol. We used to have shooting weekends where my friends and I would spend Saturdays reloading literally thousands of rounds of brass and then spend Sunday shooting them all. For a while, it hung in my closet, then I started shooting again.
It still fires like a dream.
