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What's the oldest thing in your kitchen/house that still gets used?

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  • monnagran
    monnagran Posts: 5,284 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Grandmother's rolling pin, no handles and very heavy circa 1900ish. Also Grandmother's china bowls and bits of her cutlery from same era.
    Bits of china and cutlery that were from my parents' wedding present stash, 1938. Those that survived the blitz.
    Set of kitchen utensils and a bread board and knife from my own wedding, 1966.
    Wish I still had my 1972 TV which was still going strong in 2003 albeit kept together with parcel tape, much to my family's disgust. I finally bowed to pressure and got rid of it, but I bet it would still be going now, it never went wrong once!
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  • My nan's colander from pre-1960's - it's older than me :rotfl:
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  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    My alarm clock is dated 1991
  • The second-hand electric cooker which looks like something from the 50's and probably is. My mother "found" it for me when I moved into my first flat on my own 30 years ago and it's still going strong.

    The dinner service which was one of my sister's wedding presents from her first marriage in 1975. To date I have only managed to break one tea-plate.

    The cherished tea-towels that belonged to my darling German granny who died in 1970.
  • cavework
    cavework Posts: 1,992 Forumite
    My Grandmothers 1920 Singer treadle sewing machine with all the feet for hems. pleating etc.
    My mums 1960 pressure cooker. Both have saved me £££s
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  • luxor4t
    luxor4t Posts: 11,125 Forumite
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    The glass tray on my dressing table. It was part of a set given to my great aunt Nell on her 21st birthday approx 1930.

    I have a Nutbrown mixing bowl in natty red plastic, also a matching red plastic measuring jug bought in Timothy White's/Boots Cookshop in Muswell Hill in 1982.
    I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.
  • My tumble drier is 39 years old and still going strong!
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  • deb68_2
    deb68_2 Posts: 302 Forumite
    hi all
    hope you are all well?
    oldest thing in house is ME lol

    I have my mums jewellery box,an her engagement ring

    Elvis songs just love the music

    We have oh nains(grans) weighing scales

    Have pictures hanging in house my nain painted

    We have a liverpool mug was hubbies as a child

    We have some ornaments were my mums mum
    It's an honour having such a lovely family and being welsh, what more could a girl want :rotfl:
  • cattysmum
    cattysmum Posts: 1,263 Forumite
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    An Ironing board that belonged to my Late nana god bless her, it must be at least 50 years old, I took it from my nannas house after she died, it was the only thing left in the kitchen so I asked if I could have it and was told yes, I had just got married and didn't have one. So glad I took it as I often think of her and my grandad when Im stood ironing.
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  • deb68_2
    deb68_2 Posts: 302 Forumite
    HI aGAIN
    We also have a bookcase/glass cabinet oh bought me for my birthday an old cuboard 1940's love it
    and a victorian black cast iron fire insert when the fire is lit it looks lovely
    Have an old silver tea caddy spoon dont use it kept it for our eldest son,its very pretty

    I do have 2 wedding photos or my mum an dad look at it every day
    It's an honour having such a lovely family and being welsh, what more could a girl want :rotfl:
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