What oldest two items do you still use everyday?

[Midlife]

I'm curious as to what and how many of you have old objects that you still use nearly every day. These items can be anything: potato peelers, knives, wrenches, watches, etc.

My two objects?
(1) A suede leather checkbook cover from a bank that I bought for $1.00 in 1968 when I opened my first checking account. I've had to re-stitch it twice, but it has held up well for 43 years.
(2) A money clip that I found in 1975 in a laundromat dryer. It's stainless steel with a nail file and a small knife. Since TSA has come into being, I've had to buy a replacement without the knife so I can use a money clip while traveling. Otherwise, it is in my pocket every day. Not bad for 36 years.

 

[guruatbol]

1- My wife....Not for &%#$# years.
2- Water bubbler nozzel, I used it when I was a kid and it has been around for nearly 43 years. Works great. I wish I could find some more like it so I can stop taking it from hose to hose.

Mel

 

[Ponyman66]

For me it's a little folding pen knife. It's a Case brand and has got a black composite (plastic) body. Not a very expensive item, but honestly, you couldn't buy it from me for a million bucks (yes, I am totally serious!). It was a stocking stuffer gift to me from my father the last Christmas before he passed away. He got each my brother and I the same knife. I've had it for almost 20 years now and never go anywhere without it. On the rare occasion I have to fly it gets put into checked baggage. My brother lost his a number of years ago. Once when he saw mine he said he couldn't believe I still had it.

 

[ko67]

I have a gold miney clip that belonged to my great grandfather. It was a graduation present to him in 1922 and I have carried it every day that I have worn pants since he gave it to me in 1985 at my college graduation. When I work on watches, which is every day that I am in town, I use an oak watchmakers workbench that was made in 1889. My daily wear watch is a Rolex made in 1967.

 

[1497]

My daily wear watch is a 1982. Other than that, my rickety old self is about the oldest thing I still use every day.

 

[blue65coupe]

My toothbrush and underwear. I've even had to use the toothbrush to clean the underwear before. It's truly a love/hate relationship.

 

[AzPete]

Two hand saws that were my grandfathers....got them in '77 and they were old then. Tool box my Dad used at Lockheed Aircraft Company in 1944/45, several hand tools (chisels, hammers and the such) that have been thru the family.
I also use a gunnery sight level that dates to about 1910.

 

[janschutz]

I drive my mustang everyday and it is 43 years old. The desk I use for my compute was made in the late 1870s.

 

[Kats66Pny]

Nothing we own/use is very old. Except Gertrude. :shrug

 

[cmayna]

My tooth and remaining brain cel

 

[Horseplay]

Some of my favorite (best) hand tools are hand-me-downs from grandfathers or even earlier.

I've got an old cast iron skillet that I know is older than me (remember Mom using it when I was real young) that I still prefer to use most of the time.

 

[RustyRed]

Some of my favorite (best) hand tools are hand-me-downs from grandfathers or even earlier.

Same here.

Also have a small pocket knife that my grandfather gave me when I was about 11 years old. He passed away about six months or a year at most after he gave it to me. Needless to say I don't carry it around for fear of loosing it.

I have an old .22 riffle my dad gave me when I was young. One semester when he was at Baylor in the early 60's he traded some text books for it. I've been meaning to get it to a gun smith. Last time I shot it was in high school and it was misfiring about half the time. Not worth too much other than sentimental value. It's a Remington I believe with a five bullet clip. It was the first gun I ever shot when I was probably 10 years old or so. I want to get it working right so I can take the boys to shoot it sometime.

 

[opentrackerSteve]

my body, my Mustang and I had for a time an Eagle Scout neckerchief that my neightbor gave to me when he received his Eagle in 1948. That neckerchief is now my son's as I gave it to him for his Eagle Court of Honor.