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Moomin

As I was carving our Sunday roast an hour or so ago, i realised how old our electric carving knife was.

My Dad bought it for my mum, and he died in 1981, so I am guessing it is from the late 70s - over 30 years old!! We also have a chest freezer from 1981, and a microwave which OH and I bought when we got engaged in February 1986.

And all of them are in perfect working order!! (Hope I'm not tempeting fate here).
And yet we have been through no end of washing machines, hoovers and cookers snce then, Were things more built to last back then?

I know you young ones won't have any relics like me, but do any FMs have some old appliances which they still use on a regular basis?

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DuckyMember 10 years

I have an electric whisky thing that my mum used to use when making us little 'uns cakes. It must be about 30 years old.

Maybe I should check the fuse?

10/11/0911:46 AM

MoominMember

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I have an electric whisky thing that my mum used to use when making us little 'uns cakes. It must be about 30 years old. Maybe I should check the fuse?

*Makes note to self to call electrcians in the morning*

10/11/0911:48 AM

The Devil In DiamanteMember

My Mum still has a meat carver from yesteryear ;rolleyes: Oh, and the ironing board they got as a wedding gift 45 years ago.....I think her pot slow cooker is from Roman times though..and the microwave at my mums is flipping huge & brown & beige

Think it was probably one of the first of the production lines, ever.....

10/11/0911:49 AM

MoominMember

Lol DID - our microwave is huge and brown and beige!!

10/11/0911:52 AM

The Devil In DiamanteMember

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Lol DID - our microwave is huge and brown and beige!!

Maybe it's the very same model!

It's mahoosive and minging!

10/11/0911:59 AM

DarthhoobMember

my OH

10/11/0912:35 PM

Blizz'ardMember 10 years

I have my granny's carving fork and some Berlin Wall.

10/11/0912:37 PM

BazMember VIP10 years

Only me and Mr Baz

10/11/0912:42 PM

LeccyMember

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my OH

Beat me to it

10/11/091:21 PM

kattymieowwMember 10 years

Well my old Samsung microwave oven gave up the ghost the other week it was 16 years old.It was huge had a one foot cube capacity oven,most now don't even have half of that.Well unless you spend loads of dosh.Got a new Kenwood one on offer from "Comet"

10/11/091:23 PM

kattymieowwMember 10 years

Also,all these new flat screen super LCD/Plasma tv's I see when I visit folk.To me the best brightest picture is still on the old analogue type tv.I still have one in my bedroom.Our big TV in the living room is a back lit huge Sony effort,we got if for nowt ,because my nieces' fiances folks are always buying the latest Tv that comes on the market.
I've still my old 26 inch big old tv in storage,when she finally move out,I'm re-instating it..Hah!

10/11/091:35 PM

LowonIQMember

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Well my old Samsung microwave oven gave up the ghost the other week it was 16 years old.It was huge had a one foot cube capacity oven,

I had a samsung same capacity, it had some auto programmes on it, deffo. one was scrambled eggs, forgot the others now. I paid for a 5 year extra insurance policy on it. It went caput after 4 years 11 months, the main gubbins went. They took it away and fixed it. I had another 10 years with it, before passing it on to my step daughter. i think it is still working so probably 20 years now. Beat that someone, competition is on.

10/11/092:23 PM

figtreeMember

ME!

My microwave is 30 odd years old I think! Humongous, size can do about 10 lbs of jam in it!

Not one of those tiddlysquidly things that can only hold a cup of water!

10/11/092:29 PM

LowonIQMember

figtree, well done, I knew someone would

10/11/092:34 PM

Twee SurgeonMember

I have my late MILs wooden chopping board. It is as good as the day I first seen her use it (1964), it is a beautiful wood. I used it today to carve the joint! And then I immersed it in the bowl in hot soapy water without it bending out of shape like the modern wooden boards.. It is only about 12" in diameter but has a little drain going all the way round it to collect the juices. I have loads of chopping boards - rigid plastic and melamine - but nothing beats this little chopping board. And she told me that she had had it all her married life. What a record, eh?

10/11/093:14 PM

Blizz'ardMember 10 years

Reference: Twee Surge

It is only about 12" but has a little drain going all the way round it to collect the juices.

God, that sounds good!

10/11/093:25 PM

LowonIQMember

Twee, a wooden board withstanding water, that's pretty good going.

10/11/093:29 PM

Twee SurgeonMember

haha Blizz, that sounds rude! Perhaps I should have worded that a bit better. It has a slight groove all the way round the edge to stop the juices flowing all over the shop. Rather than a drain!

Yes low, it is made of some sort of plywood or hardwood of some kind and it never warps when immersed in water. I have never seen a more hardy little item and it must be over 60 years old, and white as driven snow. I scour it and scrub it, and i cannot destroy it! It refuses to go under.

10/11/093:51 PM

LowonIQMember

my mum still uses an old singer sewing machine, one that was converted from a treadle to an electric one. If you go too fast it sends out smoke signals

10/11/098:05 PM

Former Member

Gawd , I've got masses of v v old stuff, especially china/crockery/glassware/bed-linen/furniture. I like the 'chabby chic' stuff, (which seems right in my cottage which was built in 1704.) I've also got a 20 odd year old microwave and ironing-board, a 30yr old electric carving knife come blender, and a kenwood hand mixer much older than that! Did have some 'nursey rhyme' Christmas tree lights that were older than me 'til last year when they sadly died

10/11/0911:53 PM

MoominMember

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Maybe it's the very same model! It's mahoosive and minging!

Is this the one?

That's not me btw - - just some geezer who is trying to claim his is over 40 years old!! I know it was a new one when we bought it in 1986 - 23 years old. But that is the microwave I still have and use!!

10/12/091:39 AM

**Nipple Twister**Member

I have a snakeskin handbag. My brother bought it for my mam in the early sixties, he was in the army at the time and I believe it came from Singapore. There is also an old knitting pattern inside the handbag.

10/12/091:42 AM

The Devil In DiamanteMember

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That's the one....there are more of them out there!!!!!!!!!

10/12/095:57 AM

Teddy BleadsMember

We have an old singer sewing machine that's about 54 year's old. It was my mothers before we inherited it. It works finr, I just don't know how to use it.

10/12/096:09 AM

DemantoidMember

Me and the OH.

I also have a few vintage bits of pottery and some contemporary "studio" pieces.

10/12/096:11 AM

KayteeMember 10 years

Mr Kaytee and the Sharp microwave we bought in 1980

10/12/097:33 AM

♥PinkBabe1966♥The Angel under the tree!Member

Our fridge, my mum gave it to us when we got married and it was about 15 years old then, we have been married 4 years so it's approaching 20 years old and works brilliantly. We also had a tv when we first set up home together that was 25 years old, no remote and worked brilliantly, better than the one we have now.

10/12/097:39 AM

LGSMember

sometimes, I think me

10/12/097:46 AM

MoominMember

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sometimes, I think me

Have your fuses gone?

10/12/0912:27 PM

forgetmenotMember

more than can list, starting with myself! dining room Suite 60 years old, was my mothers.. carving fork was my grans, flour sieve was my grans,old jewelery,chopping board about 20 years old, sauceapans had before my son was born and he is 37, they are copper bottemed prestige and i saved thousands of cig coupons to get them, lol!! sherry glasses of my grans (I don't drink!) pottery hot water bottles, from my gran.. mirror my grandad made beofe i was born.. on and on!! love all of them as well

10/12/091:08 PM

DuckyMember 10 years

My hairdryer passed away earlier today.

RIP hairdryer...... 1994 - 2009.

10/12/092:27 PM

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