What's the oldest thing you own and still use?

Abubob · Aug 8, 2014

I saw this posted on FB and thought it good question. I think I still use a t-shirt from 2001. It's from Lenny and Joe's Fishtail in Madison CT. Maybe a couple knit ski hat's from the 90s.

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marcski · Aug 8, 2014

I like and have lots of old stuff that I still use. The oldest is probably my Dad's pocket knife from the old country when he was a kid. Goes back to at least the mid 1940's.

skiNEwhere · Aug 8, 2014

I got a wind up clock that was supposably made in the late 1800's/early 1900's from my great-great-grandparents that still works.

I don't even like to even touch it though, I'm afraid it will explode and all the springs will shoot in different directions.

Not sure what it is worth but I imagine that I would get a little bit of money if I took it onto pawn stars. Or chumlee would offer me 10 bucks for it. One of the two

Terry · Aug 9, 2014

My house. Built in 1810 and still in pretty good shape!

Puck it · Aug 9, 2014

Terry said:
My house. Built in 1810 and still in pretty good shape!

My wife and she is in great shape too!

skiNEwhere · Aug 9, 2014

Puck it said:
My wife and she is in great shape too!

:O. I would not let her see this thread!

Edit: thought you were implying your wife was built in 1810. Looking back, maybe you weren't.

spring_mountain_high · Aug 9, 2014

a painting of Mt Washington from 1917, which was done by a family memeber as a gift to my great-grandmother for her wedding...hangs over our fireplace

crank · Aug 9, 2014

I have some old tools, saws and such that once belonged to my grandfather.

JimG. · Aug 9, 2014

I have a plastic mug I bought in 1986 at Wellesley Island in the thousand islands area of the St. Lawrence River. Bought it for camp drinking and still use it for late afternoon and evening fishing.

JimG. · Aug 9, 2014

spring_mountain_high said:
a painting of Mt Washington from 1917, which was done by a family memeber as a gift to my great-grandmother for her wedding...hangs over our fireplace

That's pretty cool.

Warp Daddy · Aug 9, 2014

Ok so this is weird BUT in 1963 i bought a very expensive pr of Floresheim shell cordovan shoes for a college event .They cost me a small fortune then and i loved them , i have had them reshod multiple times . They have. Been in my closet since then. I use them only for very special formal occasions . Perhaps once or at best twice a yr . These still look like new and i will be buried in the damn things too

steamboat1 · Aug 9, 2014

Meissen porcellain (figurines, plates, cups & saucers). Some of it is close to 300 years old.

Oldest thing I made myself is a lamp base I made in HS. I'd be dating myself if I said how old it is.

Warp Daddy · Aug 9, 2014

Oh forgot my. Home is a century old too

Abubob · Aug 9, 2014

steamboat1 said:
Meissen porcellain (figurines, plates, cups & saucers). Some of it is close to 300 years old.

Oldest thing I made myself is a lamp base I made in HS. I'd be dating myself if I said how old it is.

You use these things? I think my wife would shoot me if I used 300 year old cup and saucer.

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Not Sure · Aug 10, 2014

Skiing wise. a pair of mismatched color black and yellow ski pole grips I pulled from the trash at a ski shop I worked at when I as 16.
I moved them from poles to poles ,30+ years later their still flexible and very ergonomically designed.

House wise , Great Grandmothers 150yr old kerosene lamp when the power goes out , have a generator for part of the house but pull out the lamp from time to time

Abubob · Aug 10, 2014

Puck it said:
My wife and she is in great shape too!

Yeah, putting your wife in this thread is treading on dangerous ground.

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thetrailboss · Aug 10, 2014

Our house was built in 1912.

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Abubob · Aug 10, 2014

Siliconebobsquarepants said:
Skiing wise. a pair of mismatched color black and yellow ski pole grips I pulled from the trash at a ski shop I worked at when I as 16. I moved them from poles to poles ,30+ years later their still flexible and very ergonomically designed.

That's pretty cool. Are they right and left?

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ScottySkis · Aug 10, 2014

My car from my late grandma a 1996 Honda Accord with 55,000 miles. It might hit 60miles by 2016(broken odomter)

Not Sure · Aug 11, 2014

Abubob said:
That's pretty cool. Are they right and left?
Yes ...but i have 2 right hands and have to use duct tape

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