What's something you own that you'd say has stood the test of time?

Old record table from the 50s (I believe). The only problem I have with it is that one of the speakers doesn’t work, but the other is still fine. I’m sure that if I knew how to do anything in terms of repairs I could fix it up.

Sure beats an ipod that lasts maybe 5 years ‘if you’re lucky.’

Some old coins.
They’ll be standing long after I’ve lain down.

I was just talking about this. I bought a new coffee pot in 1988. It still works. It’s the thermal kind so there is no hotplate. I finally got tired of the thermos not keeping the coffee hot long enough so I bought a new one. I’m not throwing away my old one, though. It still works!

The quilts and tablecloths my Grandmaothers made in the 1940’s – 1950’s are still functional. I don’t use them on a daily basis.

I still have the electric iron my mother used over a half century ago.

I have the family crystal, silverware (plated) and china accumulated in the 1960’s and easily ready to serve my grandchildren’s grandchildren.

An old wooden papoose doll carving that has been handed down for at least 5 generations.

My great, great, great, grandmother was full-blood Cherokee Indian. There is a story behind this doll, but unfortunately my grandmother died before she could pass along its history to us.

I am sure its valuable and it has stood the test of time, so far.

ABC blanket. My great grandma knitted it for me in the 70’s and I still have and cherish it. It has all the letters in the alphabet on it. I could barely wipe my own ass and my mom would put it on the floor and throw a coin on it and make us name a word that started with that letter that the coin fell on.

My mom later had the bright idea to knit one with the multiplication table on it. It looked like this. She would toss a coin and have us say what numbers could be multiplied to make that number. I think I was the only kid in kindergarten that knew what 7 times 6 was.

When I was about 5 my family was beyond broke. So for Christmas my mom made me a doll. I named her Annie. Almost 30 years later I still have Annie and my daughter is playing with her now.

A friend gave us an insulated picnic backpack/bag more than 16 years ago that we use all the time. It was made by Eddie Bauer, and it has been wonderful and stood up to so much wear and tear, it’s unbelievable.

Mucci Pool Cue collection… In fact, the older they are, the better they shoot.

A set of Olympus PEN FT camera lenses nearly 50 years old. Works perfectly with Sony NEX cameras… better than the new lenses.

The full set of Maxxum AF camera lenses from 1991… Never a repair on any of them and they’ve been used professionally for the entire time.

An old Hoover Shop Vac that just won’t die. I used it today. Had to clean the motor brushes a few years ago but it came back good as new.

In my print shop, we still use the original press cutter that was handed down from dad’s print shop. He bought it used when I was 12 years old.

I took the blade in for sharpening a few months ago and saw a brand new one just like it on the display floor. I was shocked to see they still sell it and even more shocked at the price. Salesman told me they’ve been making that same cutter for over seventy years. I’ve never had to replace a motor or anything except sharpen the blade every few years.

Nintendo 64.

Yeah, you X-box owner with your red rings of death can be jealous. My N64 still works perfectly after over a decade. Those things are bloody indestructable. :P

Atari ST, still working like new. I have computers made in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and they all work. All the ones made after 2000 or so all have fried CPUs.

A set of cups, saucers, bowls and plates that were purchased for me on the day of my birth by my fathers karate teacher, who I am also named after, David. I ate my cereal and dinner from them all my childhood, and they still look like they just came out of the shop, he must have spent a fortune on them.

Lego, I still own a giant amount of lego that I intend to pass down or sell on at some later date, can’t beat good old lego.

All the appliances given to me when I got married in ‘93 still work. These include:

Electric hand mixer
Hand emersion blender
Regular blender (well this was purchased two years after we married)
Citrus juicer (I don’t use it very often though)
Television, but we gave it to MIL. We have 3 TV’s that are 12–15 years old.

I have a black and white TV that is from the early 80’s I think, possibly the 70’s. I have not used it in 7 years though, but I still have it. I won’t let my husband get rid of it.

My husband and I have several garments we still wear that are over 20 years old.

My mom and dad still have an old dial phone that must be 35 years old now. It is still plugged into the wall, and still working fine.

My parents Frigidaire refridgerator, it’s 55 years old and still kickin’.

My dining room table. My parents bought it and the chairs, used, in 1955, from a couple that was moving out of the apartment building they lived in when they first got married. My family ate dinner at that table almost every night until my brother went away to college, then I went away to college and they never saw any reason to replace it and now I live the house, an while the chairs are long gone, the table is still here. Even though it’s nothing at all special, I don’t really see any reason to replace it either. You have to kick the braces that hold up the tow ends that fold down back into place every once in a while. It has some stains, and there are spots that are kind of dark grey from over 50 years of reading newspapers at the table, and I occasionally kind of sand it a bit and re-stain and polish it, I’m not sure I could get rid of it even if I wanted to. Too much family history in that table.

Edit. Also, my coffee grinder just celebrated its 30th birthday, and while I have to push the tine of a fork down in this little slot to get it to run, because that white button you see in the picture fell off a long time ago, it still runs and grinds as well as ever.

My great great grandfather’s watch, still pristine. (would be cool if it was true but it’s not)

My 60 year old body. It is like the Duracell battery bunny. In less than a year (this year) I finished 6 full marathons. But don’t try that at home kids. I’ve been running and racing full marathons continually since 1981 (total of 62 of them). I’m just getting warmed up. HA!

My father gave my sister and me a Singer Featherweight sewing machine in the mid 1950’s. My sister still has hers, in beautiful running condition. I stupidly left mine in an unheated cabin in the Adirondacks over the winter and all the parts rusted.

A beauty

I have a plastic bilge pump that I bought with my first sailboat in 1980. I’ve bought and sold other boats since then, but I’ve held onto that pump. I used it last week to help pump and bail out my basement while it flooded in slow motion while the power was out and the sump flooded.

I have some furniture that my parents got from their parents (and who knows how long before them) and which is still functional and in daily use, not just brittle antiques.

Quilts that my mother made from the 70s and onward.

Silver eating utensils that are older than I am. Cookware (mostly pots and pans, but some glassware, too) that’s nearly as old.

Garden and hand tools that are more than a half-century old, and some older than that, and also usable and still used.

My 1967 dishwasher . . . still cranking!

I forgot about my watch, great comment @digitalimpression. I have my Cartier that is 15 years old. It is battery operated. My husband, his siblings, and father have the same Cartier, but automatic, they all still work, and the watches are 25 years old I think? More or less. Definitely from before the time I met my husband and that was over 20 years ago.

My parents are about to donate a Champion juicer my way, from 1996 or so… I hope it works.

Also, an original Nintendo… still have to blow on the games and stuff (not sure if that actually works or not).

I also have a space heater that is over 15 years old. I run it for hours several times a week during the winter months.

We still have a 13” TV from before I was born that works fine. There was also a rotary phone left in this house before we moved in (among other things), and it says on the bottom that it was purchased 6/8/88. It has been our home phone for over two years now, works great.
(Other items left in this house that still work include: An accordion, piano, typewriter and bongos.)

The large roasting pan made of thick aluminum that my mother used for years, still roasts just fine. Turkey for Thanksgiving and roast beef on Christmas. Of course there are no moving parts.

Cheers folks, good stuff!

I don’t own anything that’s a real antique but the graphics card in my computer is nearly 4 years old and still performing well, and far above what I’d expect from a graphics card of its age.

I still have my brother’s Atari 2600 from the 70’s and it still works like the day he got it. I have all of the original games too for it. I could also say my old Samsung cell phone which I had for around 10 years. I must have dropped it at least a hundred times and it still worked well, including the battery. I finally did purchase a new cell phone last year though. I still have my old Emerson stereo with a record player on it. Yes I still listen to vinyl records yet.

A cookbook my step-mother bought me when I was 15. I still use this book over and over again. It has some great recipes in it.

My washing machine. I was saying to my husband just the other day, it still works like a treat. It isn’t very environmentally friendly I have to admit. It has been more than 10 years now. Touching wood now and hoping it doesn’t give up the ghost now.

Lots of things as I like quality items. @marinelife I have an Eddie Bauer coat that looks almost new after 22 years. Clarks shoes.

We have a 1996 Saturn car that is still solid and gets over 30mpg.