Mens belts, they used to last years and years. In the last couple years I have had three or four belts just snap in two.
Completely agreed on keyboards - though there are some good new ones if you’re willing to pay over $60 (plus shipping). But the old mice were CRAP! CRAP I TELL YOU!
I still have a couple old Apple “Extended Keyboard II” (Nimitz series) keyboards that I use with an ADB to USB adapter box, the things are built like tanks, they’ve survived mistreatment, water spills, and food crumb buildups, and they still work fine today, they’ve outlasted at least three of my Macs… you can’t sink 'em 
they utterly stomp the current Apple keyboard to little tiny bits
YES! I know I’ve mentioned on here before my love for safety, or double-edge, razors; shave brushes; and good, high-quality shave creams. I’m only 28 (29 next week :)) so I don’t get nostalgic for much apart from NES/SNES-era video games, but I love my DE setup.
I also really, REALLY want to get a late '40s-early '50s GM pickup to restore to daily-driver status.
I have a 1954 5 window Chevy PU in the barn I need to sell. The cab and box are off of the frame. The cab has rotted out cab corners. She is in rough shape.
as has been said before, great wonking big keyboards with clacky keys. every new keyboard i’ve had soon ends up with “soft” keys that don’t always press when i hit them.
arcade-style game controllers with microswitches instead of those rubber pad thingys.
and of course the prize of my kitchen. my 1940s waffle iron with the removeable waffle plates, and the good old-fashioned dangerous cloth coated power cord.
Ditto. They still make all of the above, but the the Gillette razors (not blades) are no longer made and IMO, they’re the best. You can still easily find them on eBay, though.
It’s been mentioned a few times in the last month or so, but you can still get newly manufactured big wonking clacky keyboards - as made by IBM in the 80s and 90s from Unicomp. Easily the most durable and strong keyboards you can find that aren’t specialist items. Well worth the price IMHO. I’m still using an original IBM one manufactured in 1992.
ETA: if you want a standard layout PC keyboard from Unicomp with no frills and real buckling spring keys - and you do want buckling springs - you either want the Customizer 101 (without windows keys) or the 104/105 (with windows keys).
Vise grip plyers. From Peterson Mfg. The new ones are made in China. 'Nuff said.
ETA2: if you don’t want to spend $60+ on a keyboard, you can find the original IBM versions on ebay etc for a lot less, and they don’t really wear out - mine had been in an attic for at least 8 years. I just put the key tops (which are removable) in a bucket with washing up liquid and it looked and worked as new.
Definately. And bring back paper paperbacks, the plasticky stuff makes your hands all sweaty.
About the guns, preach it!
I absolutely HATE plastic framed pistols. Metal frames all the way: steel or aluminum. You need to get a Kidd trigger for your Ruger 10/22. By far the finest trigger available. I am thinking about purchasing a second Kidd for my other 10/22.
My Ruger Mark II Slabside will be with me until I assume room temperature. Mine has a Volquartsen hammer, Ranch Products stainless steel extended magazine release, extended/ shimmed slide lock release lever, Burris FastFire red dot sight on the Burris custom base, and tuned trigger using the factory internal overtravel stop adjustment. A much better gun than Ruger Mark III Liabilty Mitigation Edition.
Fans - the ones made in the 50’s and 60’s have much better motors than the plastic crap today.
thankfully, they’re dirt cheap on Ebay.
Oh, and women. I like older women without the “princess” attitude of the younger women.
Cougars=:cool:
Sounds like a sweet MkII, toofs, what barrel length is it?
My MkII 22/45 is the only plastic…err…polymer framed pistol in my collection, I just got it a couple days ago, but so far, I like it, the poly gripframe is nice and thick, feels far more rigid than other poly pistols, I think it’ going to be the only poly in the collection though, as I’m limiting myself to “calibers starting with .4x” for the rest of the collection, .45ACP, .45 Colt are my current faves, maybe a .44 mag down the road, but I have no interest in .40S&W, or anything smaller, just personal preference, nothing wrong with .40 or 9mm or below
You want to have some real fun with a firearm, try a .45LC single action revolver, it’s a reloader’s dream, can go mild-to-wild, from 8,000 PSI “powderpuff” loads to 30,000 PSI “thumb-busters”, the cartridge itself can handle loads up to almost 60,000 PSI*** (catastrophic firearm failures are quite possible and likely at this pressure level, there’s always a chance of “spontaneous self-dissasembly” with the fire-breathing loads)
***there are special "Ruger-Only loads designed for use in the Blackhawk, Super Blackhawk, and New Model Blackhawk revolvers, they top out around 30,000 PSI, the 60,000 PSI cartridges were only “proof” charges to see how far the cartridge and gun could be pushed before catastrophic failure, the Vaquero series, Colt .45LC SAA and clones CANNOT handle pressures higher than 20,000 PSI, and you’re best staying under 18,000 or less
the beauty of it is, though, that the .45LC is still quite effective, and perfectly usable at these lower pressure levels, the lower pressure translates into a much easier, more pleasant shooting experience, a .45LC lacks the shockwave, pressure-wave, muzzleblast, and wrist-snapping recoil of the high-pressure loads like the .44 Mag and .357 Mag, yet it’s still tossing an almost-half-inch size 250+ grain projectile downrange, big, slow, heavy, it’s like the target’s getting hit with a bowling ball or a mack truck
Plus, in the vein of this thread, the .45LC is at least a 140 year old cartridge, heck, it originally was a black powder cartridge when it was introduced, and it’s still a useful cartridge today
Not to mention how they’ve been shrinking. I can barely get the ends to meet anymore.
To be fair, they still make and sell plenty of cast-iron cookware.
Cast-iron has many superior qualities for cooking. Maybe the only two disadvantages are that’s it’s heavy and that acidic food tends to leach iron and harm the seasoning.
Neither of which are that terrible. But I just got a beautiful new cast-iron skillet last year for Christmas. So it’s not like they “don’t make 'em like they used to”, it’s more that “people who don’t know how to cook often buy terrible cookware, but the good stuff is still available for people who do. And cast-iron isn’t even expensive!”
Men.
I love older furniture. Like you said, not necessarily antiques, but sold old furniture. My parents have a beautiful dining table that was handed down from my mom’s parents. It was build around 1940, when my grandparents got married and it’s still beautiful and solid as ever. I’d love to get that when my parents go. It would be great.
I still use a straight razor to shave, an old Spartan tube radio for tunes to relax by, use flintlocks and fly rods for food and pleasure, and ride a Harley. Most of my furniture is what most folks would call antique and I still send letters via the USPS. I don’t mind computers and modern digital television though.