<p>Hand tools. Our 1963 ford truck.
Suggestion for fridge. Blow some dust and cat hair on the coils and leave the door ajar. That might kill it.</p>
<p>My mother is still cooking on her Chambers stove that my dad got for a graduation present in ----1949.</p>
<p>I have to give auto manufacturers credit for improving quality over the years. In the 60s, 70s your car looked old in 1 year, and if it didn’t fall apart by design in 2 years it would definitely rust out in 5.</p>
<p>This is a fun thread!
Still use…
our GE oven…built into the interior brick wall of a 1955 house. Would love a new one, but would need to remodel the brick wall. Had an element replaced once for about $100. The repair guy laughed and asked several times if we really wanted it fixed. I told him a new element was a lot less than a new wall! Many of our college age visitors love it for the “retro” look. ;-)</p>
<p>Our 70’s refrigerator finally died about 5 years ago. The one time we needed a repair, the repair guy (always a guy…) said we should hold on to it forever.</p>
<p>our 70’s turntable and receiver. Vinyl is coming back…yes!</p>
<p>our 27 year old TV. Finally bought a flat screen LCD for the picture clarity, but feel guilty about the old one. It still works great (with a digital converter). Local charities won’t even accept them.</p>
<p>We had a stand-up Kitchen aid mixer that was my great-grandmas…it was bought sometime in the late 1970s. It broke last year, and my mom called the company to see if she could get a replacement part. They sent us a brand new one!!!</p>
<p>Also, our washing machine is around 23 years old and still going</p>
<p>kjofkw - that’s exactly what we have - there is an internal brick wall in our kitchen (other side of the brick wall/fireplace in the living room) and the oven is built into that. It is an odd size as well - which is why we did not replace it when we replaced the other stuff. I think when we come to replace it, it will be cheaper to relocate it and make a cupboard of the hole in the wall.</p>
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<p>My husband is allergic to cats and our dogs are the non-shedding kind…but, dust, well that we have! I’ll keep that in mind!</p>
<p>A Japanese pencil sharpener that I’ve had since sometime before 1963.</p>
<p>My crockpot still works too, it’s probably from the early 1980s though.</p>
<p>The round fluorescent light in our kitchen. We moved into this house in 2000 and it looked old then. I haven’t changed the powder room bulbs either in that time, but they don’t get as much use. </p>
<p>I wish I’d kept the washer and dryer from our old house, I bought newer nicer ones and the dryer died a week after the extended warranty expired. They’d come with the house and weren’t particularly new and I had them ten years.</p>
<p>My Canon SLR lasted about 20 years, but the last time it broke I was told it was almost impossible to get parts for it.</p>
<p>We have 2 sets of markers my husband brought the kids from Japan around 1990. They have Sesame Street characters on them. They were used a LOT for years and years, and they still work! I have no idea why they haven’t dried up or run out.</p>
<p>I have the crockpot my husband was given by his parents when he married the first wife (I think that was 1978 but I’m not sure). It works fine but it’s ugly.</p>
<p>I have the pancake griddle my mother was given in 1937 when she married her first husband. It’s cast iron but it’s been used so much that’s it’s a bit thin, making it just a bit finicky to use. </p>
<p>My daughter still uses my father’s Pentax camera, bought in Japan in 1966. </p>
<p>I have a yarn swift that is new but that uses a design that’s been the same since the late 1700s. [Swift</a> (textiles) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(textiles)]Swift”>Swift (textiles) - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>My 25 year old Kitchen aid mixer- I love that thing. And my 25 year old Kenmore washer and dryer that I finally had to replace this year when the pump faile. Then there are the various kitchen gadgets that were my grandmother’s. I have these great tongs with no manufacture’s name on it; who knows how old they are.</p>
<p>I had to retire my first ever microwave oven bought back in 1980. It was $700 back then :eek: I paid $90 for its replacement.
My 4 slice toaster also crapped out about 6 months ago and that was a gift from 1976.</p>
<p>Built in RCA Whirlpool built in wall oven, circa 1960 and Kenmore dishwasher same era. Believe it or not, both were stainless steel and not that nasty autumn orange or avocaso green. Minor stuff on the oven over the years a couple of elements and a thermostat, nothing major. I did rewire all the connections as the wires were brittle with age when I replaced the 'stat. Maybe $100 total in parts over twenty years. The only thing on the dishwasher was a couple of drain solenoid switches.</p>
<p>As I do all the work myself, it pays to keep em as long as I can get parts. Be lucky to get 10 years on the new appliances.</p>
<p>Ooohh, I forgot about the 27 year old Whirlpool washer that I replaced this year.
Even though it didn’t have much going for it, I actually felt a little sad to see it go.
So many memories… :)</p>
<p>I have a bunch of Guardian Service cookware that was handed down to me from my mom, aunts and grandmother. I’m 58 and they had it before I was born, so I’m thinking it dates from the 40s. It’s indestructible and cooks wonderfully! I love it.</p>
<p>I have never met anyone else who use Guardian ware cookware!!!</p>
<p>I have a set. It is the best stuff, ever. I found it at a garage sale when I was in college and bought it, and still use it nearly every day.</p>
<p>Both my mother and my MIL are still cooking on Revere-ware pans that were wedding gifts around 1950’s.</p>
<p>Old stuff we still have working: Kitchenaid mixer, bought in '85. Made 2 loaves of bread weekly for 20+ years, plus all the usual mixing. Still happy and healthy. Old, old GE 'fridge bought in about '80. Got downgraded to the laundry room but has outlived it’s replacement. Husband, found in high school library in '72, sporting a huge blond 'fro and twinkling eyes. Still chasing me around, so how can I complain?</p>
<p>I do have a 15 year old Simplicity vacuum cleaner, but it may just be lasting because I don’t use it often enough (see my earlier post).</p>
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Same here! In fact, that’s why I got Revere when I got married.</p>
<p>Over the holidays while helping my sisters bake, Happykid received detailed instructions on how to work around the dead numbers in the control pads of the microwaves in their different kitchens. She amazed her cousins by saying that our (Sears Kenmore circa 1982) microwave has no such problem. Nothing has yet gone wrong with the dials for time (up to 30 minutes) or power (defrost or cook).</p>
<p>I’ve got almost all of my mom’s Revere-ware (1950). The sister who has the rest won’t let me near it for fear that I want to complete my set.</p>