My husband's parents have a large, heavy solid silver spoon that they use for feeding their dog. They use it to scoop out the food from the tin.😱
It dates back to the late 1800's and is scratched and bent beyond redemption, but has provided excellent service for at least the last 50 years - they have had several dogs over this period and it has been used when feeding every single one of them, on a daily basis.

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I have a tiny plastic travel washing line that I got from an outdoor shop for a couple of pounds in the early 90s.

It has travelled the globe with me and I have taken it on every holiday since, it's been great for hand washing a few items and hanging them to dry at a campsite, hotel balcony, hotel bathroom etc over the decades.

Now we hang it between the 2 pop top handles of our micro caravan to hang our shower towels.

I've never been able to find anything quite like this one and had looked as I wanted another.

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The oldest appliance we use is our oven that was installed when we bought the house 24 years ago. The oldest utensil would be my grandmothers rolling pin which is older than I; so more than 57 years.

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I’ve got that whisk! Also my Mum’s kitchen scales which were a wedding present in 1958. Christmas decorations that my great great Grandmother brought over from Germany in the late 1800s. Also some of her glasses that come out at Christmas (Champagne “bowls”).

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My granny's best china dinner service - she was married in 1932 and received it for a wedding present - also my great granny's china vegetable and soup tureens - which she received as a wedding present she was married in 1914- we use them to serve Christmas dinner

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I inherited a lot of kitchen stuff from my grandma including a moulinex stick blender from the late 80s. That's my oldest electrical.

I also have her old milk pan which I've kept as it's good and solid with an edge for pouring, and a little saucepan also with an edge for pouring which is the perfect size for heating portions of soup. I would guess 50s or earlier for the milk pan and 60s or 70s for the little sauce pan. I also inherited all of her lidded pyrex dishes and a big knock off le creuset casserole which is lovely and light- and is on permanent loan to my mum as it's kinder than her real le creuset on arthritic wrists.

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I have an earthenware jar where I keep my kitchen utensils which belonged to my great grandmother who died in 1960 (but it’s probably much older).

As an electrical item, my toaster was bought in 1984 and has seen virtually daily service since then.

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That looks like a Rumtopf jar. Fill with fruit, top off with rum and leave to stand with the lid on. Great for ice cream and drinking.

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I have the vegetable knife we bought on our honeymoon - 27 years ago. Sadly the knife outlived my DH.

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Probably a spoon that my mother bought early in her married days, so sometime in the 1950s. I use it solely for serving my cat her Osmolax (liquid laxative) these days - she likes the stuff enough to drink it straight from the spoon.

The other thing would be a fork from the same cutlery set, the rest of which had disappeared before I was born. I don't use it for food, though (my cutlery and cutlery are the new sets Mum bought in the 1970s) but as a back scratcher. The tines are just blunt enough for it to be perfect.

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Some Bisto gravy tins probably from the 1960s that belonged to my grandma.
I keep my flour in them

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Clock radio. I've had it for 35 years

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A ceramic condiment set that was my mum's. Dad brought it for her from somewhere on his travels (merchant navy) in the 50s. It's a bright yellow base with a palm tree rising from the middle & the salt, pepper shakers & mustard pot are shaped & painted like coconuts. It's so happy looking - reminds me of my mum, holidays & summer. I really should put it in a cabinet & just display it but I love using it. I've got her mint sauce jug too, it's mint green, ceramic & has textured mint leaves all over it with a matching saucer & tiny spoon. I think that was my granny's & likely been consistently used for approx 100 years now. Granny spent her youth 'in service' & had a few cast offs from 'the big house', this is one of them. Whenever she used to get the items out to show me, there'd always be a story. My favourite used to be about how long her hair was, but the gardener kept saying to her 'have it bobbed or shingled Annie', so she got a shingle for her first ever haircut.

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Aww lovely stories

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I have china, cutlery, furniture, tablecloths etc. which have been handed down through the generations so I don't count those.

I also have a mechanical hand mixer/whisk thingy, one of those with two whisk bits and a handle you turn to make the whisk bits turn, similar to the picture, which is probably around 60-70 years old. We use it for Angel Delight mainly. It works and it's less hassle than getting the electric mixer out for such a small job.

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DM has Aga branded saucepan that belonged to her grandmother. DM is nearly 82!! Those pans must be well over 100.

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Do sets of silver and china count? Mine are 80+. I think china, glassware, cooking utensils etc are disqualified by the stipulation Something that has truly outlived its life expectancy but is still going strong?.

I still use the heated food tray my mother gave me when I was 19. I’m now in my 70s. Until 5 years ago, DF was using a 1920s vacuum cleaner

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My mum has a very old Foley cabbage chopper which works brilliantly and I would love one. It used to belong to my nanna who died in the late 90's.

I was devastated when my nanna's casserole dish cracked. It was the perfect size.

I regularly use my mum's old crock pot and an old griddle (way before George Foreman came into being).

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I still have my Mawie's Mouli shredder which has made I don't know how many tons of coleslaw.

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I've got a tablespoon that belonged to my Mum, bought in the early 50s. My sister has it's matching pair and we both use them pretty much daily.
I have a beautiful art deco tea service that my MIL gave me - it was her parents' and must be over 100 years old now. I only get it out on very special occasions though so it probably doesn't count as "regular" but I do use it.

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Braun Professional blender/chopper and soup wand (2004). I bought new blender jugs when the first ones cracked but am still using the same device, wand and blades. And I use it several times a week, it's not stuck away in a cupboard.

I also have a rotary whisk which is 60+ years old.

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Tin opener. I have yet to find one made in the last 20 years that I can actually get to open a tin. I'm currently using my late grandmother's, circa 1970 or earlier, and it works a treat.

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Braun hand blender which is older than me. It was a gift at my parents wedding...they divorced 35 years ago

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My bread knife which was second hand when I got it in 1987 and some plates which my grandparents used, they had them in the 50s.

I have lots of old things!

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A sainsburys basics knife I bought in 1997 when I moved in with my then boyfriend. The tip has come off and the plastic handle has partially melted but its a very reliable knife.

The true oldest item is a teaspoon in my desk drawer at work which is from a set we had growing up in the 70s. I also have xmas tree decs from this time as well but they were only given to me very recently.

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My biggest pot is a huge mustard yellow Club Aluminum dutch oven. It was my great-grandmother's and I think she bought it at a cookware party in the early 1950s. It's been through multiple family members, moved continents about 8 times and will outlast us all.

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I still use my grandma's sugar shaker which was a wedding present in 1908, and a cake stand from about the same time. I've got a lot of things thst my parents had when they married just after the war, including a collection of crystal, their canteen of cutlery, sow silver cocktail glasses, and a couple of clocks. I still use my electric frying pan that we were given as a wedding present in 1980, and I've got the dinner service my mother in law bought for us then. I've also recently found the recipe scrap book that I started in 1976 which is full of things thst I thought were really exotic at the time, but included the recipe for goulash that I still use regularly.

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I've got my Nan's cake stand and sugar shaker, but she couldn't aspire to silver, so when I use them I say I'm getting out "the family chrome"

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I have some Mason Cash mixing bowls that belonged to my late husband's mother. And she died in 1970.

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I have my grandmothers cast iron cinnamon waffle iron (zimtwafflen). Brought to the U.S> in the late 1800"s.

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