Old-Fashioned Stuff That Still Functions
May 7th 2012, 10:09 pm
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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?
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?
May 7th 2012, 10:16 pm
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Re: Old-Fashioned Stuff That Still Functions
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.
May 7th 2012, 10:20 pm
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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...
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...
May 7th 2012, 10:25 pm
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Re: 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?
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?
May 7th 2012, 10:39 pm
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Re: Old-Fashioned Stuff That Still Functions
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.
May 7th 2012, 10:55 pm
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Re: Old-Fashioned Stuff That Still Functions
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 
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.
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.
May 7th 2012, 11:03 pm
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May 7th 2012, 11:13 pm
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I still have and use a beach towel that I bought from M&S 20 years ago for our honeymoon
May 7th 2012, 11:29 pm
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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.)