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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[feorag.livejournal.com]

My sewing machine was an 18th birthday present, way back in 1984. I have a 'flying saucer' toastie maker thing, which is not the one my mother used when we were children (she won't let me have it - humpf), and those things date to the late 60s early 70s. I use it to make baked bean flying saucers, just like my mum!