I still have a stuffed animal from when I was a kid and a couple of plates from when I lived with my parents. I had to drop a lot of things I wanted to keep, I didn’t because they were utterly infested and I didn’t have the spoons to try and clean it out for when I moved out.

French Press. It was my grandmother’s, kept it after she died.

The brand, Melior, was bought by Bodum in 1991, and all French Press production went under the Bodum brand (the old Melior model became what is now known as the “Chambord” line), so it is at least 35 years old, possibly older.

I contacted Bodum to know if they could give me an approximate age, but they couldn’t (or didn’t want to bother searching). All I know it is a version with Pyrex glass, which may help a knowledgeable person to more precisely date it, but I kinda put my curiosity on pause for the time being.

Other than that, some of my grandfather’s vinyls are quite old too (at least one of them is from the 80’s), and I got some 20+ yo cassettes, some old mixtapes (back when mixtapes where actual tapes 😆).

I have an old Caban which is probably at least 40 years old (was my grandfather’s, once again).

Oh, and some kitchen tools made in West Germany 😆.

I have an analog multimeter that still does the trick. It isn’t the most precise tool, but it tells me if my batteries are flat and when I have a short on a component. Great tool, probably 50 years old now and I wouldn’t touch a high voltage circuit with it but it does what I need it to do.

Blankets

My ICOM IC-7000. We take it out almost every weekend to a park and work some ham radio. Manufactured in 2006 making it 20 years old!

Penis.

Canning funnel.

Makes it easier to get things into glass jars without the narrow opening that would get clogged in a smaller funnel.

George forman grill, quesadilla maker, and a pizza oven.

Part of the original large corner desk I bought after graduating college. It was like 8’ in both directions from the corner. I finally switched to a motorized rectangle desk, but I kept one side of the old desk for it’s hutch. The thing is made of cheap mdf, but it’s still doing it’s job.

I wanted to say N64 but it’s closer to 30. I still boot up my PS3 from time to time though

Everything except (some) food and water.

My spouse and I both have mid century 5 drawer tanker desks. I’m sitting at it to type this.

Attached to my monitor stand is the modified remains of an 80’s gravity lamp. The base broke but the springs are good and it makes a great spotlight.

Our server and tv are built into the remains of an early 80’s Zenith console TV. The screen was dead so we cut out space behind the decorative front pannel for a 32in flat screen and cut down the tower to work as scaffolding for the computer parts. Tossed a sound bar in and now it booms like a theater. You don’t even notice the 2in of screen that’s losts on the ends.

Our stove is a Montgomery Ward from the late 70s. It’s an absolute marvel to use. The clock is broken so I’m planning to dismantle that area to put controls for a vent fan I want to install in the attached shelf.

Our fridge is modern but the second I find myself a '64 GE Americana I’m gutting it to modetnize that masterpiece. Unless I find the tools for metal fab first…

My Samsung microwave is from the mid 70’s. It doesn’t have a turn table but it heats food better than any modern box and has a fraction of the radio leak that my Walmart one had.

The house itself: 1880

KitchenAid stand mixer

Marble base metal stand lamp

woolen poncho, bought for $20 at a craft fair in 2004

multiple dressers and bedframes

multiple vintage SciFi hardback books

wooden chairs salvaged from the University of Chicago Harper Library

homemade quilts

Soccer jersey from 2004

duct tape wallet assembled in 2003

cardboard box for Arby’s curly fries, collected from a dumpster in 2002 to pack favorite Lego builds for storage in the summer before going to college, plus the Legos themselves

…huh. I’m genuinely surprised at how many things in my home aren’t twenty years old.

All of my musical instruments and a surprising number of tools. A lot of vinyl records. He’ll I have computer thats 25 years old that I still turn on.