What item have you owned the longest?

Graces7

Probably my oldest cat at over 17. I have moved around too much to have carried baggage... Oh but my handsewn patchwork quilt. I made it way back.

CelticRambler

wexandproud wrote: »

have a board game '' escape from colditz'' , bought in '75 and apart from slight damage to the box its still in great condition

Ahhhh janey! :eek: There was a lad used to bring that in to primary school on the last day of the year, when we were allowed play games the whole day. I used to love it, but never saw it anywhere else - not even in a shop.

xzanti

My hair dryer is about 20 years old

NickNickleby

I completely forgot about this one...
I have three engines and some carriages and goods wagons and loads of 3-rail track for a Hornby Dublo trainset. Santa delivered for Christmas 1960 or so. He made a balls of setting it up, and my father was no better at making it work. For a while, it ended up with trains being pushed round the tracks to make them go. Then it was all shoved in a big box to rot away. Years ago I found the box in my mother's attic, retrieved it, with a view to getting it working. Mam explained that she had seen it in a toy shop, it was second hand and already years old, so a bargain. It ended up in my own attic for probably 15 years.

It's now out, and I'm trying to get it running. Anyone that has seen it is amazed at the weight of the engines. I think they're cast iron.
I'm currently building a couple of solenoids to remagnetize the motors.

Edit to say: it's in bits, so I'm doing it simply as an engineering challenge. If only I was an engineer. :-0

Mister Vain

A 1948 penny.

martinedwards

I have a guitar I bought in 1989. An Encore Coaster Strat copy.

it's been customised and chopped around a lot and its my test bed for new ideas

I also have owned a Silver Jubilee mug since '77

but I like the guitar more!

Dyr

It's probably an illustrated book of edgar allen poe short stories that I got for christmas as a child, it was damaged in a flood so its in **** condition but I still have it.

I've got some old vinyl that I inherited from siblings so they might be older.

AllForIt

I have a Nike T-shirt I bought when I joined the gym for the first time, 1997 ish.

wexandproud

CelticRambler wrote: »

Ahhhh janey! :eek: There was a lad used to bring that in to primary school on the last day of the year, when we were allowed play games the whole day. I used to love it, but never saw it anywhere else - not even in a shop.

i think its a collectors item now , well among board game collectors anyway . jaysus can you imagine a night out with them

kenmc

CelticRambler wrote: »

Oooh, I have loads of stuff from my childhood years ... Probably the thing most in use is my 48-bass accordion. Can't remember what age I was when I first went to classes, but I was good enough in 1980 for my parents to buy me a bigger, 120-bass model (for which I know the date, because we were in Australia at the time and my parents obviously considered it and me a good enough investment to ship back to Dublin! :pac: ) Anyway, I still have both, but the smaller one is sitting over there on the armchair waiting for me to play a few tunes this evening.

I forgot about my accordion, I've a 120 bass for 32 years now. Don't play it as often as I should.
Also have an RC car and boat around the same age too, may a few years younger.
Couple of matchbox cars too which my kids play with, also lego

kenmc

wexandproud wrote: »

have a board game '' escape from colditz'' , bought in '75 and apart from slight damage to the box its still in great condition

I had that game too, got at a car boot sale or similar. Long gone now
Have a Scrabble set my parents had, so that's probably 48 years old or so I guess.

Sleepy

wexandproud wrote: »

have a board game '' escape from colditz'' , bought in '75 and apart from slight damage to the box its still in great condition

CelticRambler wrote: »

Ahhhh janey! :eek: There was a lad used to bring that in to primary school on the last day of the year, when we were allowed play games the whole day. I used to love it, but never saw it anywhere else - not even in a shop.

I have that in the attic in my mother's house, must dig it out as I think the kids would actually enjoy it. There's a copy of the Dublin edition of Monopoly from the 60's there too. The same attic would have my childhood teddys and Action Man toys from the early 80's too. Some of the Action Man stuff would be worth a fortune now if it wasn't in such "well loved" condition :pac:

The oldest thing of mine that I have in my own house would probably be my Lego that Santa brought when I was 4. Family heirloom wise, the Tambour clock my grandfather was presented with by the Kilkennymen's Association "on the occasion of his marriage" is still keeping time on the mantlepiece.

I have some vintage hand tools that I'm quite proud of too but nothing valuable.

Hellrazer

I still have a teddy bear that I had as a baby (Im 46 now) but it belonged to my mother for around 10 years before that.

Now my youngest has it on her bed.

cee_jay

xzanti wrote: »

My hair dryer is about 20 years old

Same, I bought it on Roches Stores in Merchants Quay in Cork on sale. It's still going strong, and it gets used at least 3 times a week.

Hamsterchops

alchemist33 wrote: »

What item have you owned the longest?

My wife

...only joking.

theteal

I've got a football gear bag from our u17 season that's still in regular use. I was 38 a few weeks ago.

Trekker09

My virginity

jack of all

I've a Mamod Steam Roller SR1a which I got sometime in the late 70s/ maybe very early 80s- I take it out and run it once a year!

Also still have a Sony "ghettoblaster" (or is it "boombox") that I bought for £100 in Peats of Parnell Street, around 1983. I vividly remember buying it, £100 was a fortune then, took a long time to save for it and I remember that lovely new "electronic" smell!

I have an old Portasol portable gas powered soldering iron kit that I got in the mid 80s, still works and I still use it from time to time.

I still have a a Rotring Trio draughtsman's pencil that I got in 1992 and plenty of old draughting stencils and equipment from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Lot's of old vintage tools too, I may have some of them 20 years or more but some are over 100 years old, love old stuff, can't beat the quality!

the beer revolu

Reminds me that the Radio Cassette player (double with high speed dubbing and detachable speakers) that is still by my bed was bought in Dixon's in London in 1988.

Feisar

I'd say a Swiss Army Knife my Mum bought for me when I was 12, how times have changed!

sporina

Hellrazer wrote: »

I still have a teddy bear that I had as a baby (Im 46 now) but it belonged to my mother for around 10 years before that.

Now my youngest has it on her bed.

coolest post...

I wish I had a teddy from when I was a baby... think thats special..

I have a pencil case from when I was 16.. its a teddy bear head... love it.. and a rake (kind of comb) from when I was 11 - when I got my 1st perm ekk...

Probably lots of other stuff in the attic at home but those are 2 things I have from my youth where I now live (not the home place)

dinjo99

I have a pickaxe that my father bought in 1943. Has been used regularly every year since. It has had the head replaced 4 or 5 times and the handle replaced 9 times but is still as good as new!

(Shamelessly stolen from Only Fools and Horses)

wexandproud

wexandproud wrote: »

i think its a collectors item now , well among board game collectors anyway . jaysus can you imagine a night out with them

I saw them for sale in Hodges and Figgis on Dawson Street in Dec 2019 (last time I was in Dublin City). I believe the swasticas are replaced with eagles. I might buy one next time I'm there in 2029.

I have a mountain bike from 1994 that I keep fixing.
I have a teddy from 1984 ish.

jack of all

Another old item with strong sentimental attachment has come to mind- I have an old garden rake, "Sparko" brand which my grandmother gave me when I was a young boy, she was a great gardener and I used to help her out in her garden. It was in poor shape after 30+ years of use, so I straightened the teeth, gave it a fresh coat of paint to match the original colour (fire engine red!) and some boiled linseed oil for the handle. I use it in my own garden now and it brings back fond memories of hard work and fine summers spent in her beautiful garden.

Andrewf20

We have a food blender from 1974 still in weekly use, a coffee table from around 1980 also. Its an ancient looking thing but trying to cut back on this consumerism thing by not buying a new one.

Wife's dad has a cardigan from 1969, still looking well & a Sanyo microwave oven from 1981.

Bob Harris

Hellrazer wrote: »

I still have a teddy bear that I had as a baby (Im 46 now) but it belonged to my mother for around 10 years before that.

Now my youngest has it on her bed.

Sleepy

Remembered another one: my childhood money box which was my mother's in her childhood is now in use by my own daughter. Exact same as this one:

Hellrazer

Bob Harris wrote: »

Would you believe that picture isnt far off it. Its battered, has had its head sewn back on, has a patch on the back of it and is missing a couple of eyes!!!

the beer revolu

I also have a teddy from my first year.
I thought everyone had one of those.

the beer revolu

My kitchen table and chairs are from my childhood house. Bought in 1977,I'd say.

It's a pine octagonal table from Stock

carbsy

My hair.

sporina

carbsy wrote: »

My hair.

what length is it?

NickNickleby

carbsy wrote: »

My hair.

sporina wrote: »

what length is it?

My road sweeping brush.