Old-Fashioned Stuff That Still Functions
 

I'm currently wearing a summer nightie that I purchased with 21st birthday gift money. That was 40 years ago. It is one of the very few things I still own that I brought over from England.

Looking around my house I see other ancient things that still function:

We have hundreds of long-playing records and we play them on our Toshiba turntable, which turntable we have had forever.

One of our house phones is a rotary phone and it is the only phone in the house that has never broken.

What about you? Do you still have old things in your house that the average person today would have binned decades ago?

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Yeah, me.

But seriously....we bought a hand mixer from a charity shop for a dollar that was from the 70's, this was 10 years ago and it's still going strong.

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OMG - how would Apple ever make obscene amounts of profit building things that last??!!!

We got rid of a ton of stuff when we moved over... if it wasn't for that we'd still have ancient TVs, hair driers and that kind of stuff...

Actually, I still have a pair of shoes from my last year or so in the RAF, which I wore to work almost every day until we moved here - almost 12 years - bar a break of a few months here & there... still in good shape, but then I did polish & clean them very frequently...

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I could answer that question, but you would only accuse me of making boring posts with information no-one is interested in again.

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You can't blame her for wanting to be the only one.

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I have a pair of underpants that I bought in Australia in 2001. Does that count? They have a small hole in them but I kept them as they have a picture of a koala on the front.

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You didn't have long to wait.

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Aren't you meant to piss through that hole? :p

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longer than it took me to put two coats of paint on my deck.

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On my bed this week is a Duvet cover I bought from my friends mums catalog (great universal I think it was) It moved to US with me and then moved back to UK and back to US :lol: I bought it over 30 years ago and it's still looks bright and in great shape.
I also have the first gift MIL gave me after we got married, an electric hand mixer, circa 1985. works great.

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Did you sit and watch the paint dry?

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You two need to get a room. :lol:

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I still have and use a beach towel that I bought from M&S 20 years ago for our honeymoon:D

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I still have the only book I brought with me to the States: a softcover version of Catcher in the Rye. I wanted to bring more books, but it was very impractical to do so. (I have loads of books now.)

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No I have a wife for that. She can see the deck from the kitchen sink.

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There's the life.

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Are still here, didn't we vote you off in another thread. :fingerscrossed:

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Watcha you 'am I still here'...I thought I'd banned you. Me ban button must be broken again. :D

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I have lots of old stuff but some of it doesn‘t work too good anymore, (sob). There was a woman here back in the hippie days who could take any ring and hold it and tell you about the person who the ring came from. Objects have stories? My portable gramaphone was purchased in a fire sale (scorched), re-covered and then 30 years later drowned in a flood, and I think with some wd-40 will still crank it out. They don‘t make ‘em like they used to. This model has the cutter on it so you could trim a porcupine quill down for each song.

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Not exactly old (the ones I have anyway) but old technology. You can't beat valve amplifiers for guitars. I have a couple and would have more if I could justify it.

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No clue what they are, but are they expensive?

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Relatively. Depends on what you buy. Anywhere from a few hundred to tens of thousands for collectibles.

They amplify electric guitars. Modern technology as hard as it tries, simply can't recreate the beautiful sound of analog! :D

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I had to go to a funeral a week or so ago, so I dug out the old suit that I hadn't worn since about 1994.....first surprise was that it still fit. Second surprise was when I sat down in the funeral home and saw that the moths had had a feast on my left knee and I could see patches of white skin showing through in a rather good representation of Ursa Major....But apart from that it still functioned.

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My mother informed me that a set of knives she bought in 1958 had a lifetime guarantee. She took the set back to the outlet. One was missing, two were damaged. While they were somewhat surprised, they honored the guarantee. That set was no longer available, but they did give her 3 replacements at no charge. I wish I could remember the brand name. I'll ask next time I call. A company like that deserves support, and I could use some knives.:thumbsup:

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That's the reason those Craftman tools had a bit of a change in the lifetime guarantee from Sears.

People were buying up old tools for peanuts at lawn sales and then taking them back to the shop for a new replacement, which they'd then sell on ebay for a smidge less than new prices :D

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Are you accusing my dear 85 year old mother of riding her three wheel bike to various unsavory garage sales, and scooping up knife collections.:sneaky::boxing::rofl:

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+ 1,000,000

I can't afford an AC30, though :( (but I do have one of those VOX tonelabs with a valve, going through a not so old 1980 VOX Escort 50 ...)

This is also precisely the reason why a 1970 Moog will go for $3,000.00 or more, and a 1981 Jupiter 8 goes for more than $6,000.00 :blink:

Now, Primula, do you mean old in age or old fashioned in style? If so - I have a record player that is new in age but there are generations who won't know what the hell one is. FFS, my daughter is going to grow up not knowing what a cassette is, let alone an LP :(

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me.

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[QUOTE=SultanOfSwing;10047333
Now, Primula, do you mean old in age or old fashioned in style? If so - I have a record player that is new in age but there are generations who won't know what the hell one is. FFS, my daughter is going to grow up not knowing what a cassette is, let alone an LP :([/QUOTE]

Even CD's are rapidly becoming something you hang over the vegetable patch on a bit of fishing line to scare the birds away...

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I love AC30's but they are too loud!!
I have a DR Z Maz 18 and an Orange AD15, both EL84 amps (same as an AC30) and even with an attenuator to try and tame the volume, they're very loud. Awesome, but loud! :thumbsup:

The tonelabs are actually very good. Definitely one of the better pieces of digital technology. PODs aren't bad either. Not as good as the real thing but very good for low volume.

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In the "not old, but old-fashioned" pile... I've always hated disposable razors and even worse are the prices now of razors with replaceable head-catridges... $37 on Amazon for 12 blades that are useless after three shaves? Seems a little much.

So I used electric shavers for years, but eventually they breakdown or become a PITA to travel and one day I decided to grow up and do this properly. And now every morning (well, not EVERY morning because I'm lazy), I break out the brush and sandalwood soap and shave with one of these, and it truly is the closest shave I've ever had, with the least amount of cuts:

http://www.amazon.com/Merkur-Heavy-D...f=pd_sbs_hpc_5

I love this thing. Plus for half the price of the cartridges, you can get 100 good replacement blades. I've been using this for 2 years and still haven't gone through all my first batch of blades yet.

Other than that, I also have an old rotary phone I used for a while, which is great unless I'm talking long distance when no one can hear me.

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That's why I want one :). One of the 1960s ones as well, not the new, made in China imitations. I want a made in England one, like the Beatles and Brian May used ...

But for now, the Tonelab does the job very well. Those Orange amps are pretty tasty though, I've heard them in action a fair few times.

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Oh **** ... the anoraks have taken over another thread.

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In fariness, Eb me old mate, the thread title does suggest that anorakory may be very likely to be taking place therein.

On that - I wish I still had my CPC and my Amiga ...

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"Anoraksia."

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Ah, I stand corrected. Thank you.

That makes us all sound like a bunch of spiders, though.

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Both species give me the creeps.

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The Orange's are nice. The Dr Z is my baby though. It's in a similarish vein to an AC30 (kinda).

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:nod:

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Spiders are good to have in the house. They eat mosquitoes and flies and all the annoying little twunts I hate. Plus jumping spiders freak the cat out in a very entertaining way.

Anoraks on the other hand? We have our uses too - you'd want me on your pub quiz team, put it that way.