What is the oldest piece of furniture you own?

How did you come to get that piece of furniture? Are you glad you held onto it? Do you wish you could get rid of it?

It’s not the oldest piece of furniture I own, but it is the oldest piece I bought for myself. It is an old-fashioned school teachers desk. I’ve had it more than thirty years now, and it must have been thirty or forty years old when I bought it at some yard sale.

As it happens, it has been serving as a computer table for a long time and I just cleared the old computer off it. I can see it’s teacher deskness for the first time in years.

Tonight was “back to school” night at my daughter’s school. In her advisory, the room had two desks just like mine. They must be sixty years old if they are a day. OMG. I think that when I was in High School, the school had newer equipment than my child’s school does now.

Scary. Even worse… this is a school that just won some blue ribbon award that no other school in the city or state was able to win. Obviously, schools are a lot more than furniture.

But this reminds me—what does this piece of furniture mean to you?