Just wondering what passes the test of time? I personally have an old Casio watch and if you count fruit trees, those are pretty old too.
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Wrist watch that’s made from an old pocket watch.
Waltham watch company: 1895.
I’ve seen you around before. Cheers! Show us the watch… I love old time pieces.
I have a cheap plastic hair brush my mum bought me over 40 years ago when I was about 6 or 7, she said it cost a dollar and surprised I still use it daily.
There is nothing wrong with it, so it lives on.
I have 2 jumpers that date back to 2009ish. Have not found suitable replacements for them sadly.
Genuine question , in this context what is a jumper?
Clothing
After reading a bunch of comments about people using electronics in this post, I had initially pictured “jumpers” as either “jumper cables”, the things people use to boost car batteries with, or small plastic coated pieces of metal or wires that can be placed over exposed pins on circuit boards to connect them (e.g to enable some behaviour). Generally I’d only assume this meaning in a discussion about electronics, though.
(I’m not the person that you replied to, and I knew that jumper means sweater or jacket or something in British (and possibly Australian?) English.)
And now that I think about it, most of my clothing gets worn after a few years, at least on the elbows.
A Kenwood amplifier made in Japan in the 80s.
2007 Toyota Corolla.
Osprey backpack I bought about 12yr ago.My dick. I’ve used that every day since I was born.
The dresser in my bedroom was my dad’s and it’s older than me. I think it’s around 50 years old.
My body. Had it all my life and I’m planning on using it until I die. Or until I can put my consciousness in a robot body if that becomes possible first.
I have a mix of hand tools like scrwdrivers, wrenches, and hammers inherited from my father in law who said some were from back in the 60s that I use as needed.
They are still in decent shape so they get put to good use regularly to make up for being left in a closet for a few decades.
We have a formica dining table made in the 50s, I think. It looks cool, is in great shape, and I love spotting them in older movies.
I bought a 1200w power supply in 2013 that is still going strong. Daily driver I’ve moved from case to case as I have upgraded over the years.
I have a Stanley mug, bought it in 96 when I was working in construction. It’s been kicked off scaffolding more times than I can count.
Used so much that the green started coming off ten+ years ago. So I sanded it off and it now has a brushed stainless look.
The lip cover has been gone for at least 15 years, worked well when it was there though. The mug is far too big to fit in any cup holder and has been tossed around mercilessly in every truck I have ever owned without spilling a drop up until the day it broke off.
The lid has chew marks where sharp puppy teeth of my long dead forever friend had himself a munch.
I can’t see ever replacing it and I don’t see it ever breaking to the point I’ll need to.
I also have a knife in the running that would fit the question.
My keyboard is almost middle aged
IBM Model M. I bought 3 at a garage sale in the late 90s, 1 for use 2 for backups, and I’ve never needed the backups
I have a ninja turtle cereal bowl from when I was a kid that I still use. It’s from 1988.
How faded is it?
It’s suprisingly in great condition. The only sign of wear is the paint on the eyes has chipped off in some areas.
A Mackie mixer and two nearfield speakers I bought 25 years ago still see hours-daily usage. When the fancy Kenwood tuner died 2-3 years later, I replaced it with a Boss 50w/chan 12vdc transistor amp that still never even gets warm.
Speaking of Casios, I have an F-105 [1572] ‘Illuminator’ that’s 20 years old and still using the same battery. It gains about 1 minute per year.
Probably the silverware that I grew up with.
My dad was friends with the guy who designed the Aztec Hotel. He didn’t want regular light fixtures originally, so he came up with an idea for lighted columns, and he made a prototype table-lamp sized. The was in 1925. The prototype is in my living room and I use it every day.
Interesting, got any pics?
I went downstairs and took one just for you:
His thing was that he didn’t want obvious electric lights in the lobby because Aztecs didn’t have electric lights. But it was decided that giant glass columns in earthquake country in the 20s was a bad idea, so they didn’t do it
Aww, that’s a shame they didn’t go through with it. I don’t see why it would be an issue structurally. You’d just need to build the structural spiller in the center, then put lights around that, then glass around that. LEDs would make this so much easier, but it still should have been doable. You could even make the glass “floating” so the floor/ceiling shaking wouldn’t break it.
I think in 1925 their ability to cushion big hunks of glass was lower, and they didn’t have safety glass. It was probably a good call, even though it was a cool idea.
Wow, that looks great. Thanks for showing!
