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fabforty
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....gadgets/furniture?
Just a light hearted question really in the hope that I am not alone. I recently bought a new fridge - the old one packed up and died after 24 years. My washing machine lasted 18 years and my tumble dryer is 23 years old, a big monster of a thing, but it does a good job drying clothes and is still going strong. I bought my sofa in 1991 (it's leather so it hasn't really aged or dated) and I am finally buying a new bed after 17 years. I only really change things when absolutely necessary - mainly because I hate the thought of figuring out how to operate something new. The idea of going out to buy the latest model, just because .... is alien to me. No criticism of those who do, I just don't. Even my last mobile phone was 5 years old (which apparently is a long time for mobile phones) and I only changed it because I won an I-phone (yay).
So my question is, how old is your oldest working thing?
Just a light hearted question really in the hope that I am not alone. I recently bought a new fridge - the old one packed up and died after 24 years. My washing machine lasted 18 years and my tumble dryer is 23 years old, a big monster of a thing, but it does a good job drying clothes and is still going strong. I bought my sofa in 1991 (it's leather so it hasn't really aged or dated) and I am finally buying a new bed after 17 years. I only really change things when absolutely necessary - mainly because I hate the thought of figuring out how to operate something new. The idea of going out to buy the latest model, just because .... is alien to me. No criticism of those who do, I just don't. Even my last mobile phone was 5 years old (which apparently is a long time for mobile phones) and I only changed it because I won an I-phone (yay).
So my question is, how old is your oldest working thing?
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That's easy to answer. All the furniture was bought either 12 years ago when we bought our house or 6 years ago when we were expecting the sprog. The new arrival also meant a new washer and dryer as the combined machine that came with the house never dried anything. Electrical appliances are replaced when they breakdown and I get a new mobile when it's time for a free upgrade. A set of cabinets in the lounge could do with replacing as the sprog has ruined them with drink spillages, but apart from that everything else still looks fine. The only thing I want to change that looks/functions ok is the kitchen as I want a bigger one with a better layout and my dream cooker, but this will be part of a long-procrastinated over extension.0
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Washing machine is 23 years old.I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once0
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Car -17 years.
Epilator -15 years.
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I got rid of almost everything I own 9 years ago, so started again from then really. I was at a stage where I was selling up and had no idea when/where I'd be settling again, so I figured it'd cost me £000s to put everything into storage, pay for storage, then get it out of storage at some future point, only to discover it was all old/shabby and nothing fitted my new house.
I figured the £3-4k saved would be better spent getting a new house filled with stuff, although, in the event, that never happened and just about everything that I can see around me was 2nd hand or donated.
I'll probably be looking at things again in 2018.0 -
My fridge is 16 years old and I have had to replace shelves when they snapped. Doors dented and rusted. To be honest I would have had a new one but we built the kitchen after fridge was put in utility room and now it's stuck lol:rotfl:0
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Wow that's great I am on my 4th in 16 years!! What am I doing wrongBrighton_belle wrote: »Washing machine is 23 years old.
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My kitchen is really overdue for a refit. But I'm holding out!
Last refit 1996, all appliances apart from kettle and toaster still going strong touch wood!
Fridge Freezer Zanussi
Washing machine Ariston
Oven/ceramic hob Ariston
Dishwasher Ariston.
Whenever the new kitchen is fitted I am tempted to keep the dishwasher which is still absolutely perfect, but the other appliances are nearing end of days, bits of rust on the bottom, icing up, that kind of thing, but still work perfectly!
Things were made better twenty years ago it seems!0 -
All my white goods are brand new (replaced when we moved house last year). Ditto most of the furniture, although one sofa, one chair and the dining table are about four years old.
We downsized to a smaller property, so didn't need the same amount of furniture, the beds needed replacing anyway, and I wanted shallower wardrobes to fit the space where I wanted them.
The sofa was renewed when we returned from Spain at the end of 2011 as I had promised my husband he could have one the same as the one we had in Spain, and we bought a second sofa when we moved house last year.
Oh, just realised, the desk with the computer on is about fifteen years old!
So, virtually all our stuff is reasonably new.
The car is ten years old but we only bought it in 2012.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Lounge suite 1983
Dining room suite & sideboard ?1950s?
Bed 1990
Boiler 1980
Hi Fi 1984
Freezer 2000
Microwave 1989
A lot of my other old kit has croaked fairly recently:
Kitchen TV 2015, previous 1988
Fridge 2013, previous 1970
Washer dryer 2015, previous 2000
TV 2008, previous 1980
I replaced a 50 year old cooker with a 20 year old one in 2014.0 -
everything is less than 10 years old.. a lot was replaced after the kitchen fire in 2007.. the fridge and freezer were replaced 3 and 4years ago, the WMs were 2 and 3 years ago.. the previous ones had managed 6 years each. The DW was replaced at christmas 2014 after dying on christmas eve whilst cooking christmas dinner! the dryer I've had 5 years. the last toaster lasted 3 days, the previous one about 10 years
We live in a really hard water area so anything which uses water lasts about 5 minutes before dying.
I'm lucky to get a year out of a microwave or kettle or pump on the fish tank.
The vacuum cleaner has probably done best.. Henry is 14 this year.. I don't think it is even possible to kill them!
My sofas were replaced last year, the previous ones we'd had about 8-9 years
carpets are next on my list.. but may have to wait 100 years.LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0
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