well-loved tools

[redbird]

Meme, snagged from joedecker:

What are your oldest belongings still in use? By length of ownership or chronological age:

I think the answer to both of these is the same: my dresser, which I've had since I was three, but which my mother used for many years before that. I'd have to ask her exactly how many years, though: it might be the set of nesting Pyrex bowls that my parents got as a wedding present in 1955, and that my mother gave me when she moved to England. (I also have a beat-up orange frying pan, likewise from my mother, and some Corningwear plates of about the same vintage.) But the dresser has been mine the longest.

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[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I have a pink wool blanket which I uplifted from the family home when it broke up in 1988; I remember it being on my parents' bed quite early in my childhood.

If jewellery counts I have two silver pieces from the 1930s -- a bracelet and a filigree rose-cross. If it doesn't, I guess the blanket counts. I've had it most (if not all) my life.