What's your oldest 'useful object' that you still use?

Question

Mine are a slotted spoon and a fish slice that are 44 years old.

Answer 1

a silver cross pen

Answer 2

My great uncle Eric's shaving brush.  It is 75 years old.

Answer 3

A Singer Sewing machine, made in 1967.  Works brilliantly!  :)

Answer 4

My Late Father's 'Felca' wristwatch. Dates back to the early 30's.

Answer 5

A hairbrush that I was given by my dad when I was 7, 19 years ago!

Answer 6

Hi, Mine is a pastry cutter, (it has wavy edges) it was my aunt's she would have been 73 now and she had it when she was 10, it is old but has sentimental value.

Answer 7

an ottoman my grand-dad made as i am in my 50's it must be old

Answer 8

the wife

Answer 9

My wife's Grandmother's oak framed mirror which has pride of place over the mantelpiece.  

Must be over 100 years old making it a genuine antique.

Value, to us priceless.

Answer 10

i have a glass pyrex lemon squeezer from 1970 which i still

use and a wooden log box which my dad bought 2nd hand when i was about 5 - i'm 55 - it stores my grand kids toys.

Answer 11

i love my cast iron skillets and dutch oven they belonged to my great grandmother my grandmother and my mom (at leats 70 years old if not older and they are the best cooking pans i have ever had

Answer 12

My 12 gauge given to me by my grandfather he bought it sometime in the 1950's.

Answer 13

Butter Knife - first recorded use in 1944/5 at a party held in the local air raid shelter to welcome home the soldiers of world war two. My Grandad tied a piece of cotton round it so he'd know it was his butter knife (everyone brought their own cutlery!) and we found it only last week with the cotton still attached. It's now in use.

Answer 14

a pen

Answer 15

My grandmother's "prayer chair", so called because she knelt at it every morning to pray.  It is a plain wooden kitchen-type chair with hand-carved slats in the back, legs and braces.  The seat is a single piece of wood, hand-carved to fit one's bottom.  It was fashioned on Guernsey Island (in the Channel Islands between France & England) in about 1850 and was given to my grandmother by her parents when she emigrated to Canada in about 1880.

I still use it sometimes to sit at my computer desk -- particularly if I have a sore back.

Answer 16

My bottlecapper, used for bottling homebrew.  My grandfather gave it to me over ten years ago; he used it when he brewed during Prohibition.  His uncle used it before him.

Answer 17

i have a 50 year old desk that works fine and still looks beautifull

Answer 18

mine is a old wire manequin that i put jewlery on to display it in my shop. it was my great grandmothers who was french and she had it as a little girl so its over 90 years old. i love it though! x

Answer 19

A 4lb lump hammer,Had it since i was a kid.

Answer 20

Mrs Beetons All About Cookery.

Won it For Progress in 1971.

I was 14.

I still use it now on a regular basis.

The cookery was good but everything else went down the pan for the rest of time I was at school.

Answer 21

The furniture in my front parlor. The set, including a straightback couch (loveseat), an upholstered rocking chair, four straightback chairs, a table, and a fainting couch, were purchased in 1881 by my great-grandparents. The set graced their parlor from that time until their deaths in the 1930s, when it was passed onto my grandparents, who used it until the 1970s. In 1977, the set was placed in my parents' basement, remaining there until I claimed it a few years ago. The pieces have never been reupholstered and still have the original velvet coverings and horsehair filling. I do not use the front parlor every day, but entertain guests there on weekends.

Answer 22

My Mum - she makes a lovely English Breakfast

Answer 23

A garlic press that was my great-grandmothers.

Answer 24

My bureau, made by an ancestor about a hundred years ago.

Answer 25

As I am very young I haven't had the sense to hold onto objects for long, but I have a tape player from when I was around 9 I still use regularly use which was passed down from my father

Answer 26

Mine? Swiss Army knife I got for my twelfth birthday. As of this December I'll have had it for twenty-two years, about half as long as your slotted spoon and fish slice I'm afraid.

Answer 27

my grandma's old hand crank meat grinder.

Answer 28

my cooker, its gas and probably about 50 years old!! Everytime I talk about going to get a new one, everybody tells me not to as they are nothing like as good as mine. Guess its now an antique, any offers?