Oldstuffday! What's your oldest appliance that's still working?

jk0

Not sure if this belongs in this thread or the 2nd hand one.



I found one of these at the side of the road ten years ago. It has been keeping me warm since then. Must be about 30 years old by now.

jinny

My singer hand operated sewing machine is 144years old and still in fine working order.
My ironing board is 45 years old a wedding gift. It's been more use to me than the ex husband!
My washing machine is 15years old and never needed fixing.
I keep her sweet by using white vinegar for fabric conditioner. That stuff clogs the pipes up I'm sure. Onece a month I put a hot wash on and run it empty with just white vinegar in the fab con drawer and bicarb in the drum and powder drawer.

RicardaRacoon

Had a good lauhgh when reading about Doris the christmas tree fairy!

Just thought about other household things. I have the plates my grandparents got for their engagement in 1954 (the cups and saucers went missing over the years) along with some serving spoons that must come from the same time.

Plus a small jug which my greatgrandmother got in 1936 from a neigbour when the whole village went through their no longer used stuff to donate it to my greatgrandparents and three other families who lost everything in a house fire.
I don't use the jug though, it stands on my shelve with a coffee cup and saucer which I can trace back to a Jewish family in Berlin pre WWII.

rosiepup2000

My hairdryer dates from about 1994, hope I'm not jinxing it by saying it's still going strong! It's a Boots own brand one. My previous experience of hairdryers was that they died after a couple of years, so not long after I bought the Boots dryer, I bought another one to keep in the cupboard, as a replacement....the second one is still in its box in the cupboard!




I've also still got my mum's wooden rolling pin and very heavy metal mincer. The mincer has a clamp which fixes it to a table. I remember watching my mum using the rolling pin to make apple pies and the mincer to make shepherd's pie when I was a child, and I'm in my 50's now. She must have got them when she got married, so they must be nearly 70 years old.

poppycracker

my hairdryer also dates from approx 1994 - it doesn't get used much though. I also have my Nan's Braun handblender that I reckon is early-mid 1980s. Its big, heavy and a strange shade of green.

jk0

Ha ha. Yeah, I've got a hairdryer somewhere that mother bought me to take to Poly when I was 18.

Mine also has not seen much use lately, as I'm now bald, so have a number one haircut.

Frith

My mum has 2 cast iron saucepans that belonged to her mum. My uncle (who would be in his mid 90s now) said when he was a boy, HIS mother considered those saucepans so old they were used only for boiling scraps up for the chickens!


They're still being used!


Also, I bought my cooker second hand 15 years ago. I've been searching the internet for it and it must be so old there is no picture! This is the closest I can get - mine has fewer dials.
http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=111026&sos=0


ETA - I've found mine on Ebay and it's described as "retro"!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Creda-Carefree-Double-Electric-Oven-cooker-and-grill-/181684449191

purpleivy

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

A Kenwood Chef inherited from my MIL and am told it was a late 60's model. Used at least twice a week and still has the original dust cover

Also Kenwood Chef of similar vintage. My grandmother's sewing machine which she received for her 21st birthday in 1925. Hand crank though, not electric!

Finefoot

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

I inherited a kenwood chef from my late MIL but that blew up last year. But I still have all the attachements - haven't a clue what to do with them ! Seems a shame to throw them out.
Put them on ebay as parts for sale.

frugalissima

When I was a teenager in the late 80's, my dad and I went to a car boot sale and bought a record player that was of the make "Elizabethan". I quipped that must be referring to the reign of Elizabeth I !!