How about 60+ freaking years?! :eek:
Mother in law has an Amana teal fridge from the mid 50s that was somehow passed down from her mother. It sits in the garage and works just fine, although I finally convinced her that it was so inefficient that it was costing her far more than any value it gave keeping some extra sodas cold. :smack:
A repair shop! What’s that?
I haven’t lived 40 years, so there’s no way I can top that.
My grandmother still has the same fridge she had when I was living there 26 years ago. (This despite a house fire about 20 years ago!) I remember that same fridge going back around 30 years.
In the house I’m in now, we’ve got 2 refrigerators that have been here since before we moved in 16 years ago (not sure how long…from the design, I wouldn’t think too long - definitely 80s or 90s models). On the other hand, in that same time period we’ve gone through 3 stoves, 2 dishwashers, 2 washers, 2 driers, and 2 water heaters.
I have my mother’s Osterizer (blender) that was a wedding gift to her. Back in 1952. It’s older than I am by four years and still works like a charm.
I got somewhere around 25 years orso out of our 70s avocado-colored fridge.
I still use my grandfather’s electric drill and Gramp’s been gone well over 40 years now. The thing is heavy as hell and apparently indestructible despite a couple of my attempts to burn it out.
My aunt has a microwave from when they first became common. It doesn’t have a digital timer - it has a knob you turn o the number of minutes you want, then works it’s way back around like a light timer or old washing machine. She’s had it since at least 1986, maybe a couple of years before that. It was the first in the family, back when they were still pricey, but she worked at Hills department store and her employee discount combined with a sale made it feasible.
My folks have a toaster they still use. They got it as a wedding present over 61 years ago.
My grandmother had a nice watch from sometime in the early to mid-20th century. My wife has it now. It’s stopped working, but it was still working when she got it. We keep meaning to check into getting it repaired.
I just remembered that I still occasionally use it, when I’m doing woodworking up in the attic. So that makes it 75 years!
But it doesn’t pick up cat hair like my Dyson Animal.
I have a Delco gas furnace. That’s about 40 years old.
Our old appliance actually died about two years ago, but it was a “Modern Home Toaster” that was my mom’s uncle’s wedding gift. For his wedding. Mom is 95 years old, so I think the toaster was from maybe the late 1920’s, early 1930’s. It was a flap-style and made the best toast - soft inside but toasty on the outside…yummy!
We used it every day until it gave up the ghost. The heating elements finally just fell apart. 
I love hearing about this old stuff that is still in use.
International Harvester Company (I-H) still lives on as Navistar International Corp. Did you live in Northern California, up by Paradise? In 1976 I rented a house outside of Paradise California that had a HUGE I-H chest style freezer in the basement. It worked wonderfully, which was good as it would have had to be disassembled if we had wanted to remove it. We figured it had been installed when the house was built in 1954. We could not see how else it got there. When I was last there in 1982 it was still working.
We have an old 1945? Crown deep freezer in our barn. I got it from one of my uncles. It is older then I am. I have seen pictures of my cousin and I in our bassinets on top of this I-H deep freeze just after we were born in 1958. It uses less electricity then our newer freezer. I used a kilowatt meter on it and the freezer for one week each. It has thick insulated walls and lid. I clean the compressor coils on both twice a year.
I have many tools from my grandpa that I inherited from him in 1972. They were all old then. The 1/2" drill is large-and-in-charge it drilled large holes in 1" steel plate just this Friday. The house jacks I use for car jack stands. They are rated at 25 to 50 tons each. I have used them to replace the foundation on my dads house in Oregon.
I could go around the house looking for these old machines, but I really should be in bed by now. Good night, 48.
oh, this might be rare: computer equipment.
Working ps/2 keyboard with adaptor for modern USB computers, it must be around 10 years old now. I call it my super secret keyboard because the paint came off the 3 middle columns of letters so only a touch typist can use it.
One of the first laser mice, at least 7-8 years old. It just refuses to die. I keep it as a backup just in case now.
IDE DVD RW, bought about the same time as the mouse. Modern computers usually still have an IDE cable for optical drives, so I could also hook up my old hard drives as well, those purchased in 2002 or so. The DVD and mouse came from a computer store that closed in 2008.
A working 3.5" drive. As mentioned above, you can still use the IDE cable on modern computers. I believe this drive came from a computer I purchased in 1990. I haven’t tried to use it in a while though, I believe the last time was when I installed windows XP on my current computer, circa 2010 or so when you had to use a 3.5" floppy so windows would recognize a USB keyboard.
I had a coaxial cable that just failed last year that came from when I lived with my parents. I believe it was originally installed as part of the cable tv installation that occurred in 1990 or so.
I bought a bosch super silent dishwasher in the early 80’s. When I moved across the country I took it across the country and installed it into my apartment. Then when I moved into my new house, I installed it there. It lasted until 2012 when it got more expensive to fix than replace. I don’t think it wins any award for longest lasting, but it must have been one of the the most travelled appliance.
The fact that I took the trouble to install it in an apartment that already had a dishwasher in it shows I really loved the job that Bosch did, and you had to be standing next to it to know it was on.