What is the oldest thing you ever bought and still have?

Sassycakes

Sassycakes

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When my husband came in today I was in our bedroom dusting our furniture. As soon as he walked in he said to me "Do you remember how mad you were at me for buying the bedroom set." I said, "Even though it was over 50 yrs ago of course I remember." Right before we got married he got drafted. It was during the Viet Nam war. He was in the Navy and we got married when he was on leave. Since he was living on the base, I lived with my parents.
One day a truck came and delivered a Bedroom set. I was shocked that he had bought the set and never said anything about it. Money was very short in those days because he didn't want me to go to work. It was the same bedroom set I loved and wanted before he got drafted. It's over 55 yrs old now. I remember the name of the set it was called "The tour of the Waters" in French and made by Stanley Furniture. I swear he will never let me forget when the bedroom set arrived and how shocked I was to see it.
 

The oldest thing that I still have is a music box that I bought, when I was sixteen, off of a clearance table in a Sears store. The inside material was torn and I replaced it. Thought I would give it to my granddaughter when she turns sixteen.
 
Ceege said:
The oldest thing that I still have is a music box that I bought, when I was sixteen, off of a clearance table in a Sears store. The inside material was torn and I replaced it. Thought I would give it to my granddaughter when she turns sixteen.
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I'm sure she would love it.
 

Keesha said:
The oldest things I have are hand-me-downs from the mid sixties. One thing I have that I didn’t buy but is old is a fold up chair I made in grade six woodworking class. It’s got my name branded on it from 1972, making it 49 years old.
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That's awesome.

Oldest thing I bought and still have is a pair of work boots. Timberland is the brand. Their same type of work boots sell for $150 to almost $200 now. I paid around $30 for them in 1987, expensive at the time, and they still get some use.
 
I have a Texas Instruments 4 function calculator I bought in 1970 for college. Calculators were just becoming available with the dawn of the digital age and were expensive. I paid $40 for it. I also have a fishing pole I bought overseas in 1964 while in the service. I brought it home and still use it occasionally. It was the one I caught an 8 lb. bass with.
 
Sassycakes said:
When my husband came in today I was in our bedroom dusting our furniture. As soon as he walked in he said to me "Do you remember how mad you were at me for buying the bedroom set." I said, "Even though it was over 50 yrs ago of course I remember." Right before we got married he got drafted. It was during the Viet Nam war. He was in the Navy and we got married when he was on leave. Since he was living on the base, I lived with my parents.
One day a truck came and delivered a Bedroom set. I was shocked that he had bought the set and never said anything about it. Money was very short in those days because he didn't want me to go to work. It was the same bedroom set I loved and wanted before he got drafted. It's over 55 yrs old now. I remember the name of the set it was called "The tour of the Waters" in French and made by Stanley Furniture. I swear he will never let me forget when the bedroom set arrived and how shocked I was to see it.
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Our bedroom set is the same old thing for me, only it was "cheap" then and we still use it...lol!
 
We only got rid of our original bedroom set (from the 70's) when we moved because it didn't fit in the new house's bedroom. It was called Open Hearth (early American) from Sears.
 
I bought a nice Minolta 35MM camera back in the early '60's...and took gobs of pictures/slides of my journeys in Europe and Thailand when I was in the military. It's still in great shape, and someday I may advertise it on EBAY. Camera film all but disappeared from the stores, years ago, with the advent of digital cameras, etc.
 
My living room/dining room table which I've had since I moved into my co op apt 33 yrs ago.I came home from work one day,there it was.My dad bought it for me,saying'It was on sale',I thanked him
The other is my Bose CD/Radio which I bought in 2001,.I can get/listen to my favorite jazz station in Toronto{ 90 miles from Buffalo},comes in crystal clear
 
The first thing I got when I got out of the US Navy, was a cookie jar. I didn't buy it, thought. I just got the keys to my NYC apartment. I was moving in-all I had was a folding cot. That night I went to the store and bought two packs of Oreo cookies. I happened to notice that there was this mail in form to get a free cookie jar with two rappers. So I did. About a week or two later, I got a free cookie jar. I was so surprised, because it was a nice cookie jar, and it was worth more than two 89 cent cookie packs.cookie jar..jpg
 
In 1968, the UK telephone service was nationalised. Our phone, or appliance, as the phone company called it, was rented. When the phone company was privatised we asked if we could keep our "appliance." No, but we can buy it which we did, for the princely sum of one pound and it is still in use today.
We also have bathroom scales in imperial weight without any metric equivalent, but I think those scales were a wedding present. Our kitchen scales are the counterbalance type, also in imperial, we bought sometime in 1968, those scales are still in use too. In fact much of what we bought, like bed linen, soft furnishings and towel sets, ( A set comprises of hand & bath towels and a face flannel.) So much we still have and use.
 
Reading this again I remembered that I have a very large collection of 45 records that I had from before I was a teenager. My Dad's friend filled jukeboxes and whenever he took out records to put in more he gave me and my sister dozens of records and I still have them.
 
I have a set of Alfa Metalcraft (AMC) stainless steel waterless cookware that I got when I was 22 years old. I worked as field office manager for the company. They sold the cookware at dinner parties they'd have at a customer's house. To work there, I had to give 3 of those parties and got a $600 set of cookware in exchange. This was in 1978.

Forty-three years later, the cookware is still in nearly daily use.
 

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