About half of my books.
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Almost everything is more than 20 years old, build my house in 92
An ice cream scooper from the 1940’s with a mechanical scoop releaser and a bread knife from the 80’s, both random bits that were passed down the family. Nothing special, just very well made tools. Also a Hala desk lamp circa 1950.
My aunt has a 40’s era sunbeam stand mixer that works perfectly… just needs a new electrical chord. Most things are made to be replaced now. Those not so much.
My sister in law got my mil's KitchenAid stand mixer that my wife carved her brother's name into when she was a kid. Works like a champ.
The bed that my father has built for my wife and me some 30 years ago. My father sleeps in his grave now. My wife and I still sleep in this bed.
The house itself: 1880
KitchenAid stand mixer
Marble base metal stand lamp
woolen poncho, bought for $20 at a craft fair in 2004
multiple dressers and bedframes
multiple vintage SciFi hardback books
wooden chairs salvaged from the University of Chicago Harper Library
homemade quilts
Soccer jersey from 2004
duct tape wallet assembled in 2003
cardboard box for Arby's curly fries, collected from a dumpster in 2002 to pack favorite Lego builds for storage in the summer before going to college, plus the Legos themselves
...huh. I'm genuinely surprised at how many things in my home aren't twenty years old.
It’s wild to me that some people have space for a grand piano in their house! I don’t think it would fit in any room we have. Heck, it wouldn’t even fit through the door to get it inside in the first place.
Clay bowl I made in high school. It's where pocket coins accumulate until I dump them into the machine at the bank that puts them back into my account.
The amplifier of my parents' old stereo. Must be from the early 90's. Still going!
May your generational gold always grace your ears with good sounds.
my HP Printer / Scanner from 1998
Whirlpool washer and dryer from the 80’s. They came with the house and they are INVINCIBILE.
my super nintendo
X10 to turn off/on a couple lights remotely. It uses radio waves so no bs "smart home" data mining app. This thing
Pretty sure most of my stuff is over 20 years old at this point. My razor is at least 60.
Thanks to a particular YouTube personality I imported a toaster from the US and converted it to run on 230v. My modifications aside, it's from the late 1950s and still works perfectly.
Most of my audio gear. Receivers, turntable, eq, speakers....
If you want to build yourself a nice "vintage" sound system, look for things made before 1980ish. pretty much everything built before that was made to last and can always be repair. After that, they started to deliberately make things that would break within a couple of years so that isn't meant to be repaired.
I got this solid marble 6ft lamp I stole from a landfill. Wrapped that bitch in ivy. Swapped to pink and blue bulbs.
A E S T H E T I C
Also I only drive cars from before the 80's because I don't like fuel injection or computers in cars
A Mosin bayonet. uh wait, I gotta go.
An ebow (electromagnetic bow) that I bought used from some estate sale. It has a cassette tape in the box presumably containing instructions for how to play it and demos of it being used.
I don't use it regularly as I mostly play bass and the spacings on its grooves are made with standard guitar in mind so it's rather difficult to play with a bass consistently. but it is incredibly cool.
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My alarm clock. It's probably 30 years old now. It projects the time onto the ceiling, which is amazing when you wake up in the morning and don't know if you over or under slept. I don't use the alarm, but the ceiling clock is invaluable.
All of my musical instruments and a surprising number of tools. A lot of vinyl records. He'll I have computer thats 25 years old that I still turn on.
Lots of stuff; I'm old (enough) and frugal. A lot of my tools might be the oldest, from my faster and grandfather.
A Kitchenaid stand mixer that is 48 years old and still works perfectly, but the most ridiculous old item is a 35 year old Panasonic boom box with an added BT adapter that's still in regular use.

I have a leather belt from the Gap circa 2002 that I've worn most days during that time. It still looks great. I've tried to find a similar one for years, but every belt I've found seems to be made with cheaper materials that aren't going to last
Tap water. It's at least 4 billion years old.
Actual answer will be one wooden stool and one round wooden chair made around the 80s. It came from a very old house my sister recently bought that the occupant left untouched since 2008, based on the technology and the calendar. So when my sister wanted to renovate the whole house she asked us to just pick anything that we wanted as everything will be tossed, so i grabbed a wooden chair and stool, give it a little sanding, oil it up with tung oil, and been using it ever since. They also have this grandfather clock that would look great if refurbished, but i don't really have much time to refurb anything else. Wooden furniture is awesome.
Edit: shoutout to my mom's sewing machine + table that she have since she married my dad. You know those with giant crank wheel and you have to rock your feet forth and back to operate the machine? Those. She upgraded the machine to electric in the 90s and still use it today, exact same build.
Most of it?
Particularly the furniture. New furniture is a waste. Aside from like, mattresses. Zero reason to buy new frames, tables, etc. None.
So many things. The one that gets used the most is a laundry basket which still has the old orange "Spags" price sticker on it. I miss Spags...
Most of what I own. No point in replacing something when there's nothing wrong with it.
Some of my kitchen knives, at least one is 40+ and others 20+, generally a lot of my kitchen utensils are quite old
Coffee brewer. Desk. Have a 100(?) year old wooden couch that the dog likes to sleep on.
Almost all my furniture, lights and light fittings, a lot of my cooking stuff, my car, a lot of my tools, and even some of my clothes
The keyboard I bought for my first PC build. It's the Alchemy Elixir.

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