My washer and dryer are still going strong, as are my fridge and stove 
Seriously, Sears/Kenmore made REALLY good appliances back in the day.
My mother’s Maytag washer and dryer have been running for 45 years, and spend most of their lives cleaning up after a family of six. No major repairs - just the occasional broken belt or hard-water encrusted water valve.
The phone next to my bed is a 1930s vintage Western Electric. I think the only “repair” it ever had was when I replaced the old hard-wired cord with a cloth-covered “vintage style” cord with a modular plug.
Looking at more modern things, it amazes me that my seven year old iMac is still running.
My oldest working power tool is a Black and Decker drill that I first used to install a cassette deck in my 1974 Chevy Vega.
Still going strong (the drill, not the Vega).
Swing line stapler from 1986 or so still in daily use. Desk lamp from 80’s still in use with original bulb, was one of the first halogens or something.
My IBM Model M keyboard, made in 1992, finally died last year. I replaced it with a Unicomp model which is functionally the same (they bought the rights to the design).
clickety-click
I have a digital clock radio that’s been with me since probably 1993, so that makes it 20 years old. It has a cassette deck that won’t stay closed anymore and the buttons have become super sensitive which makes it difficult to set the correct time after a power outage, and it’s way bigger than it has any right to be, but the old boy keeps good time and still dutifully clicks the radio on every morning so that I have something to listen to while I get ready for work.
Ah ha! That reminds me of the Panasonic AM/FM/shortwave radio and double-tape player I bought here in Bangkok in mid-1994 and do still use. The tape players no longer work, the antenna, which has had to be replaced at least once in the past, maybe twice, is broken off, and I can only pick up radio signals at certain times of the day, and even then I must constantly keep tuning it in. But it still works to some extent, so I guess that’s been the record holder all along.
My parents just replaced their dryer after 32 years…
My mom received a toaster as a wedding gift in 1960, it is still going strong. I have several stainless steel drills and a palm sander that belonged to my grandfather. I don’t know how old they are, but he died 35 years ago and they were far from new then.
I still use this Tensor light next to my bed, which was originally bought sometime in the early 60s and given to me in the early 80s. I replaced the bulb in it for the first time about two years ago.
Same thing. My parents were married in 1938, and my mother used her Electrolux until her death in 2005. When they no longer made bags for it, she made her own.
67 years!
Toaster. Ours is probably about 15 years old or so. We rarely use it, just a couple times a year.
The microwave I bought in 1985 still works perfectly, and it’s been used several times a day for all those years.
I have my grandparents’ cast iron sausage maker, apple peeler and coffee grinder all from the early 1900s. They are manually operated and still work fine. Same with my grandmother’s pre-1900 treadle Singer sewing machine.
Our electric kitchen blender, a wedding gift, has been working since 1967. We had to replace the glass container when it was broken.
My Mom and Dad got a coffee grinder as wedding gift in 1946.
Dad called me specifically to tell me that grinder finally broke a few years ago. 60+ years. And least twice per day.
My Dad is “old-school” and asked me if he should take it to a repair shop. :smack: He had a real attachment to that coffee grinder and I doubt if he has had a satisfactory cup of coffee since it died.
Our family’s Hotpoint tv with gigantic cathode tubes instead of transistors was working between 1960 and 1980. It’s still in the old house, used as a side table.
The wife and I worked it out. That radio is our longest-lasting appliance, with the toaster a close second. Both beat the recently deceased vacuum cleaner by a good couple of years.
Well goddam, he should take it to a repair shop!
Do watches count? My Grandpas 1922 Waltham still runs…wear it every day!
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My Mom and Dad got a coffee grinder as wedding gift in 1946.
Dad called me specifically to tell me that grinder finally broke a few years ago. 60+ years.
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Does he still have it? And what brand was it? Idly curious as I collect old small appliances, and as decorative items, it doesn’t matter if they run. 