Do you own anything that has lasted 20 or 30 years?

Get ready....................... Bought in September 1965: Westinghouse small refrigerator still being used to store water bottles, sodas etc. I was told that probably we pay a fortune in electricity and we should be ditching this old thing for a new one, energy efficient, that it will pay itself with the savings in electricity. Bought in December 1965: My first paycheck received in American soil....... I bought for my Mom a Sunbeam electric can opener, color seafoam green and I still use it every day.It's an emotional attachment. Ugly and old, but it is quick and never fails.

It should be in a museum. Hubby wanted to paint it hunter green to go with my new Silestone counter top but I told him NO! Bought about 1970: Electric make up mirror......... hard to find the little side roundy light bulbs (3 on each side) but we did.

I could keep going and bore you to tears with a huge list. We are careful with what we own and we clean it, keep it lubricated and avoid letting people borrow it. Sharing......that's when stuff starts breaking down.

He just re-did our kitchen. The other time it was touched was 1971. The only appliance that was perfect was the stove and I loved it.

A friend asked if she could cook a turkey in my oven and went on to take the door off from its hinges. How can one be so aggressive with a poor stove? Had to buy a new one.

No, friend is no longer allowed to use my kitchen. I have this very old hand mixer. We, here at home, use it for beating eggs for an omelet, making a dip, mixing the cake batter etc. I do have a food processor but that little hand mixer is so handy!

About 25 years ago the neighbor sent her kid to borrow it because they wanted to make brownies. They brought it back. The next week, same thing.

Borrow and brought it back. On the 4th time I asked when were they going to replace the Why should I buy it if I can borrow it? I went out and bought them a mixer and told them that I dislike sharing my appliances.

That's why I still have it. It's mustard yellow in color, in case you are wondering. Hubby has all kinds of ladders and tools and he makes sure to tell any new neighbors (the old ones know it already) that they are available to be borrowed anytime.

We just want a phone call to alert us where it is and returned as soon as possible.

Yes, a few things have aged and kept their usefulness. A) A stereo system which has a cassette deck that's adjustable for 'high bias' quality tapes, which you don't see too much of now. B) Actually have an 8-track player and some tapes, still very nice to hear.

C) Several Revereware pots and pans still in fine shape around 40 yrs later! D) I had a trusty old umbrella that was over 25 yrs of age but finally lost it last year, not sure where. Anyways it was time for an update.

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There are a few things... I have a Jeep that just turned 30. I sold my camera at 19 - it was having a little corrosion trouble, though. I have a bread machine that is in its teens, but it is semi-retired.

Since I did not start with serious acquisition of goods until about 20 years ago, it is really only incidentals that I own that are older, or things I picked up used. I have a wood stove from the 70s (and it looks it). In fact, my house is also from the 70s.

When I was younger, we had a cat that lasted 20 years. When my parents tore down their old house to make room for the new one, there was a light bulb in the porch light that was at least 16 years old (and still worked). My mom has a Betty Crocker cook book that is well over 30 years old, and the recipes still work just fine - but she won't give it to me, and they just don't make them like they used to.

Heck, they have a set of wedding rings that is 42 years old, and apart from a little wear on the metal, they work just like new. Somewhere in their garage is an old TRS-80 computer that worked when we mothballed it. (though no guarantees) how's that for old stuff?.

I sure do... Microwave oven - 23 years old and still working fine! Electric Stove and oven - 23 years old and still working fine! Two Eureka vacuum cleaners - about 25 years old and still working fine!P.S. there are only two of us in our household but we do pretty well with appliances.

Our GE washing machine and dryer lasted 20 years; we replaced them with new ones two years ago.

Really rather a lot, when you think about it ... Lots of things ... My car is a 21-year-old Audi 200 that's as sprightly as the day it was born. All it needs it a bit doing to the bodywork (the inevitable dents - no rust, it's aluminium - and the little bits of electronics that have worn out. It'll get that next summer, God willing, and I'll buy myself an Audi Cabriolet for fun while it's being looked after).

The piano - 40 years old, well-looked-after, much loved. Plus various pieces of sheet music, including the Beethoven Sonatas that were my sixteenth birthday present. Most of the LPs I bought for my 21st birthday, when my 'big present' was a record player and enough money to buy twelve records.

I'm wearing a pair of shoes that were bought at least 25 years ago, and I've got several other pairs just as old (and yes, they get worn, too). Various much-beloved items of clothing; some because I'm a knitter and I like making complicated multicolour jobs that are more like works of art, so I'm not giving them away. But there's a dress I bought in South Africa for less than £10 equivalent and it's breaking my heart to part with it, but I'm going to have to because the shirring elastic has worn out and can't be re-done.

Also several coats, including a floor-length cape made out of goatskin suede trimmed with fox fur, that looks like a medieval garment and stops traffic, though I don't wear it often. My house - about 250 years old, and I've lived here for 21 years, so just about all the furniture and fittings therein. Treasures from my father: the silver and gold coffee service we bought in Yugoslavia when I was eight years old, the cameo he gave me for my 21st birthday, the blazer badge he had made when he was given the Freedom of the City of London, photographs of me as his lady when he was President of the Rotary Club, his textbook of forensic medicine.

Several treasured pieces of jewellery ... Some books I've had all my life - I mean the actual volumes, not just titles bought and re-bought. Doesn't everybody? .

" "These geese are over 20 years old. I do not think I can pen them" "Where are we going? Every good democracy throughout history has only lasted about 200 years and then they evolved.

" "Old speakers haven't been used in 20 years. Will they work?" "I want to know the name of a book I read about 20 years ago. " "President Obama cites respect and partnership with the Muslim world as recently as 20 - 30 years ago.

" "i want to take a pension policy at 30 years." "What are some inventions of the last 20 years? " "i have 20 years old vct. Is there place to buy old stock for repairing." "Should marriage expire after 20 years?

These geese are over 20 years old. I do not think I can pen them.

Every good democracy throughout history has only lasted about 200 years and then they evolved.

Old speakers haven't been used in 20 years. Will they work?

I want to know the name of a book I read about 20 years ago.

President Obama cites respect and partnership with the Muslim world as recently as 20 - 30 years ago.

I want to take a pension policy at 30 years.

I have 20 years old vct. Is there place to buy old stock for repairing.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.