What's the oldest thing in your house that still in constant, everyday use?

I have a mechanical metronome that I found with a “free” sign on it. I don’t know exactly how old it is, but it looks old and says “German Democratic Republic” on it.

I’m not sure, but I am notoriously cheap. It might be some of the pots and pans, which are at least 25 years old.

Me.

Milo here. Gail

Possibly my MIL’S stainless steel colander with bakelite handles?

Funny I had that same kitchen set growing up. A classic.

In my house right now I am still using my bedroom set that is 49 years old this month and a China cabinet that I inherited from my grandmother that is 100 years old.

The refrigerator and dishwasher in my apartment. Of my own, the kitchen table and chairs I got from my parents, they are about 28 years old.

I have very little left that predates my marriage ending. So most quotidian objects are less than 9 years old.

The hand tied quilt on my bed. I truly do not know how old it is, but I suspect it is at least 65 – 70 years old. Next to that, easily the easy chair I am sitting in right now. I have had it since I moved to my current apartment in September, 2004, and it was already well-used before that. My guess is, based on its design, that it was made in the 1960’s or early 1970’s.

I have an old ( 75 years or more ) metal collander that my grandmother used. It has a couple little dents in it but it is still used almost daily for one thing or another. Rinsing veggies, draining pasta, etc. etc.

Probably the toilet in the front bathroom. I’m sure it was here when the house was erected in the 20s.

My butler, he’ll be sixty next birthday.

This isn’t one of those NSFW questions is it?

@Coloma that’s exactly what I said but mine has black bakelite handles. Does yours?

The structure of my house – built in 1955.

Hard to say.. We have a (2nd) refrigerator from the early 1960s that we still use every day…
We have a lot of antiques..

Oh! Definitely our dining room table. My hubby worked in antiques for years (eons ago) and he saved up his pennies and bought a circa 1800s table and painstakingly and beautifully restored it – along with 4 caned chairs that I think were also very old (but maybe not original to the table?).
The table is a regular oval (sort of large) dining table, but also has an additional 9 ‘leaves’ to insert along with the supportive “wings” under the table to hold the extra leaves.
We’ve seated 20 at this table on occasion.

I suppose we only use it daily in the sense that we leave mail or papers on it as we pass through the dining room..or hang up the kids’ damp coats to dry on the chairs occasionally.
We eat at the plain oak table I bought about 20 years ago in the kitchen daily..but the dining room table (covered by a protective table cloth) is used for in-transit clutter. ;)

We have some colored glass bowls that date back to the 1940s. Use them all the time. They even do well in the dishwasher.

I have a piece of furniture that is commonly called a “buffet.” It’s actually a dresser that has drawers on the top and doors on the bottom. I had it refinished when I moved into my present home. The antique dealer that refinished it told me it’s oak and it’s from the Victorian era (late 1800’s, if you don’t know when the Victorian era was – it’s the era of Queen Victoria).

It was a dark, nasty color and he brought it to the bare wood, and stained it a light honey color. It’s beautiful.

I use it for fancy linen tablecloths and napkins, and the bottom has stuff that I don’t use too often, like a blender and other appliances.

My General Electric Clock radio. The first thing I ever purchased with my own money. In 1986. I was 9.

Every day I use the silver that my parents got for a wedding present, and they were married before I was born (no matter what you’ve heard about me) nearly 62 years ago. I have cast iron skillets that may predate that, but I have no idea how old they are or where they came from. I also have furniture that belonged to my grandparents, including a rotating shelf system that I use in my pantry all the time (although I no longer rotate it, because it sits in a corner of the room). Aside from that I have artwork in the house that came from my grandparents’ home, and some carved wooden puzzles and toys that my grandfather made before I was born.

@Aster No mine is just all silver metal of some sort.

My every day flatware. I bought it in college, so that would be just short of 30 years old.

I would say myself but I am partially “Out of Order”. I haven’t worked in 6 years.

I guess the bed in my master bedroom pre-dates the dining set, and is in daily use – wrought iron from 1900 + or – 20 years, I had painted at an autobody shop.

Much of my furniture is Victorian, but not in daily use. There are things in my house that date to at least the 1840’s, but I don’t use them.

Hell, I think my alarm clock radio dates from the late 70’s, early 80’s, lol.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Thanks, all.

The cassette player. It existed even before I was born. Right now my dad is listening to the radio news with it.

My bedroom suite. I bought it when I was 19 so about 35 years.

The interior doors. My house is around 85–90 years old.

Well this house is around 100 years old, so a lot of stuff that is part of it would count. Other than that, I think my dining room table. It was bought sometime before I was born. So it’s at least 47 years old.

My 1946 edition of “The new CENTURY DICTIONARY.” Of course I have a newer one but the art work is fabu!