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[–] 1 point 35 minutes ago

The kitchen TV, one of the first flat-screen TVs, a Sharp with 720p resolution, I think 21 inches. It's sad to think that since then, four different TVs have been in my living room.

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  • [–] 1 point 39 minutes ago*

    Herman Miller Aeron Chair. Have had it for at least 25 years and besides a scuff or two on the arms, it’s in perfect shape. I work from home and am sitting on it all day every day, so it definitely has held up.

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  • [–] 1 point 39 minutes ago

    My spouse and I both have mid century 5 drawer tanker desks. I'm sitting at it to type this.

    Attached to my monitor stand is the modified remains of an 80's gravity lamp. The base broke but the springs are good and it makes a great spotlight.

    Our server and tv are built into the remains of an early 80's Zenith console TV. The screen was dead so we cut out space behind the decorative front pannel for a 32in flat screen and cut down the tower to work as scaffolding for the computer parts. Tossed a sound bar in and now it booms like a theater. You don't even notice the 2in of screen that's losts on the ends.

    Our stove is a Montgomery Ward from the late 70s. It's an absolute marvel to use. The clock is broken so I'm planning to dismantle that area to put controls for a vent fan I want to install in the attached shelf.

    Our fridge is modern but the second I find myself a '64 GE Americana I'm gutting it to modetnize that masterpiece. Unless I find the tools for metal fab first...

    My Samsung microwave is from the mid 70's. It doesn't have a turn table but it heats food better than any modern box and has a fraction of the radio leak that my Walmart one had.

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  • Whirlpool washer and dryer from the 80’s. They came with the house and they are INVINCIBILE.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Knitting stuff fron the 50s, glassware from the 60s, and probably a load of crockery/kitchen stuff that is at least 20 years old. My speakers and amps are 80s (although they have new cones) and guitar stuff from around the millennium.

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  • my super nintendo

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  • [–] 5 points 2 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    The one I'll pick to share is my desk. It was a teachers desk and the drawers are full of signatures from kids in the classes. No date but the desk had the top restored by a guy I knew over 20 years ago. It was given to me a few years later and I've used it ever since.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    I have a thing for old computers, so.. My C64, VIC-20, plus/4, A600, A1200, NES, Sega master system, PowerBook G4. I can't fit all on my desk at once, so three are in storage, but I rotate.

    Also, my graphing calculator. I bought it new in 2000. I think they haven't changed much, as there's still just a handful of models approved for state exams. I took a skipper course five years ago, and that's the one I brought.

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  • I have a moka pot from my dad that I don't use super frequently (every once in a while I try to learn how to do cuban-style espresso, otherwise I just drink drio coffee), but it's 30-40 years old.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    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...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Ooh I love this. I started with nothing less than 20 years ago so I don't have much that old, but my Playstation 2 still gets used on occasion

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago*

    I have a living room table that dad made over 40 years ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    So 2006. Lots. Washer im sure. This single strap backpack I have. Lots of clothes. Some of my dogs toys are hand me downs from my last dog. Don't think I have any electronics that have made it. Although I gave my dvd player to my brother a few years back. There has to be others as we don't get rid of things unless they no longer function. Oh. Actually a but load of basic tools.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Many of my watches.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    The house itself is going on 80 (or might have passed it already; I have conflicting information on when it was built).

    Half of my furniture is antique, with one large built-in cabinet having been salvaged from a house even older than mine.

    I have no idea how old my gas range is, but I got it out of my in-laws' house a decade and a half ago and they'd had it for years before that.

    My silverware is a hand-me-down from my mom, and is probably older than I am.

    My newest car (out of too many) is a 2007 model, I think, which means it might've been built in 2006. Most of the others are from the '90s.

    My previous daily-driver bike (which remains my backup after getting a cargo e-bike) is from circa 1991. Of my family's dozen+ bikes, there are only three that I know for a fact are less than 20 years old.

    A surprising amount of stuff I have was found on the curb after other people threw it out, and is of indeterminate age.

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    My rice cooker, I'm convinced it will out live me.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    Lots of things, but let's say the toaster.

    Pretty sure it was a wedding present that my parents got a few years before I came along, so it's over 50 years old at this point. It didn't get any use for the first 30 years of its existence, but I've had it for longer than 20, so it counts either way.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago*

    If I had to pick one, it’s my Gameboy. I use that the most.

    There’s also: probably half of my books, most of my cameras, my old consoles, my sewing machine, and there’s probably more stuff. I’m kind of obsessed with old things.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Several things, my N64, several shirts that I've had since highschool, both cars, and half of my tools.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    Silverware would probably be the oldest, my wife's grandmother bought them in the early 1900s as antiques, and then some "modern" accessories that matched, now antiques themselves. They get used on special occasions mostly.

    I have a slow cooker thats ~30yrs old, works great.

    The DVD/VHS player with FireWire for minidv is also used while I convert old family videos to digital, and my old dv camcorder is now in my daughter's hands to try making movies with her friends.

    I'm sure there's more, but thats off the top of my head.

    (Removed the copy/paste accident from work crap)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    Cutlery, my mom bought the set before I was born. The heft is perfect, and the mouth feel is top notch.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 hours ago

    Lots of stuff; I'm old (enough) and frugal. A lot of my tools might be the oldest, from my faster and grandfather.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    The table by my bed that i put my laptop on to watch tv in bed.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

    Most of it?

    Particularly the furniture. New furniture is a waste. Aside from like, mattresses. Zero reason to buy new frames, tables, etc. None.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    There's one reason to buy new stuff, that being you don't have that stuff. When I bought my house, I moved in with like two folding chairs and a card table. I eventually bought stuff, and that stuff is all 10-12 years old now. Unfortunately, my kids have murdered my poor Interior Define couch (that I bought before they existed), and so a new couch will come eventually.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago* (2 children)

    Not having furniture is a reason to buy used/vintage/antique stuff, not new. New furniture is almost always either inferior quality or exorbitantly expensive. (Some things from IKEA, such as the Poäng chair, are exceptions, but not many.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    I agree for some furniture, but I'm not buying used couches. I see couches roadside with a "free" sign from time to time, and I just shudder thinking about what's happened on that couch.

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  • [–] 1 point 54 minutes ago*

    That, I agree with! Also, upholstered stuff in general can be risky because of bedbugs.

    Still, used upholstered furniture from an actual store (or gifted from someone you actually know) is probably safer than curb stuff. I would only take hard-surface furniture from the curb.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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