I am a tool who is more than 20 years old
Most of it lol! My microwave was built in sept 1983, I have a scythe and a machete both from the 1920’s, my amp was bought new in 1998, the speakers are even older.
The vast amount of furnishings are older as well, aside from my tv (3yrs), the freezer (3 yrs), and my fridge (4yrs). Washer is I think around 10, the dryer may be 20ish.
your microwave reminds me of my nana’s that would pump out warm air when it was on. right at my face height when i was a child. 😂
It does actually. There’s two warm air exhaust vents on top of the microwave that pushes air towards you. (Well the right hand one is an intake vent, the left is the actual exhaust.)
Yep, definitely feels like it at times, and the things that end up needing to be replaced are the newer ones.
My Xbox 360 is 1 month away from being 20 years old.
My PS2 is over 25 years old… Wow. My DDR pads for if still work!
my house was made in 1870. I regularly buy and restore hand woodworking tools about that old too.
how what’s NOT old but is annoying is the varmints in my wall trying to get warm for the winter… sigh.
My house is that old too! A beautiful old tenement with working fireplaces and cornicing. Love it
speaking as a firefighter: technically every room has at least one single use fireplace in it. (your house sounds great! 💚)
I glanced up from desk and the first thing I saw was a leather postcard that somebody sent to my great-grandmother back when she was “Miss.” The postmark and date are worn away, but the art is copyright 1906. It’s such a weird little artifact… someone clearly just cut out a mini-postcard from a hunk of leather by hand, and then printed an owl and a moon on it, and then “GET WISE Come to” and then someone scratched in pen where they were supposed to come to, but that’s worn away. And on the back is space for filling in a name and address (which it kind of looks like was done with a burning tool, that part still readable, a little unsteady but mostly in this big-style ornate cursive like the Constitution), and not space for anything else. There’s no message. Just “Come To (scratches).”
I have no idea why they made a leather postcard, but if they were looking to make a little novelty item that people would consider as special they succeeded, because for whatever reason I still have it well over a hundred years later.
The fridge in my apartment of 32 years old.
I have a small ‘dorm’ refridgerator in my office that was old when I bought it in 1991. Still works just fine.
Old stuff is cool and all, but old fridges are generally terrible. It’s one of the few cases where it’s both more ecological and economical to just buy a simple* modern one. They pay for themselves within a year of electricity bills.
* no smart home garbage, no touchscreens, and so on (and stay away from Samsung)
That’s impressive!
I have several cameras that are 50-70 years old that I still use regularly.
Where do you get your film? And it developed? 35mm specifically.
If I’m just taking random pictures or testing a camera I use the cheap Fugifilm from Walmart. It’s a 3 pack of 36 exposures for 25 bucks. For higher quality film I get it from reformedfilmlab.com. They have an excellent selection.
As for developing, I’ve only tried https://filmdeveloping.co/ and I’ve been happy with them so far.
My treadle sewing machine is roughly 100 years old. My cast iron pans are at least that old as well.
But srsly, I still have things in my closet that are 20+ years old.
My treadle sewing machine is roughly 100 years old
My sister has one of those, it still worked fine (although she preferred the electric one just because it was more convenient.) Those things are just immortal. It is a damn shame to see what the world could be without planned obsolescence making everything into Ikea.
I have a Lower Paleolithic Acheulean bi-face hand axe likely made by Homo erectus. My father-in-law brought it back from Libya when he was working in oil fields in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I had it assessed by a lithic-specialist archeologist from the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Dr. Harry Shafer, who wrote a nice little report on the piece.
I have a cupboard and desk from 1776. They’re a pain to move because ceilings are too low nowadays.
Although the oldest thing is an ammonite fossil I found.
My great grandfather’s bed, dresser, and chest of drawers is around 100 years old. When he passed way, my mom had it refinished, and I slept in it at home during high school. After I got married, I took to my home, and I’ve had it ever since.
My Trek bicycle is that old now. It’s a hybrid bike and I just maintain it every couple of years and it jjust keeps going. I ride the hell out of it, it’s a tank (so heavy) but I love it.
My Fan, it’s the oldest thing I own. It’s a little older than my mother.
My grandma gave it to me when she bought a new one.
My family has bought countless new fans over the years because they break, but this one of mine keeps working like the day I got it, and that’s in a hot climate, I use it 10h a day for a big portion of the yearA ton of things; from my Driza-Bone wax coats to my Game Boy. I’ve got plenty of old tshirts, posters, electronics and vinyl records.
Happens when you get addicted to collecting different stuff every 2 weeks. Old stuff is pretty cool, though.
My Yamaha AN1x and Novation Supernova synths. The pans in my kitchen were bought dirt cheap after I left university, and they are still going strong. Plenty of books and records. I have a box of old computer bits - SCSI adapters and such like. I have no idea why I still have that. A broken Eko 3/4 size guitar that I’d love to get fixed.
