Wedding gift longevity

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Irishmom2 said:
I actually bought an old toastmaster toaster on eBay
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Toastmaster is the brand we have. 🙂 It was a gift from one of my older brothers and his wife. When it finally conks out I’m going to ask him why didn’t buy us a better one. lol
 
F_Marturana said:
I don’t have any of my original drinking glasses.
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We still have two sets of wine glasses as well but they are used so seldom they’ll last forever. And we have two sets of juice glasses that we’ve never even opened. Again, just not something we ever feel the need of.
 
ZemD said:
The oldest thing here that’s still in use is the furnace my great grandfather put in this house in the 1950’s.
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Outstanding. Our furnace dates from 1962. In the 33 years we’ve lived in this house we’ve had the motor replaced twice but other than that it’s always run fine. The last guy who serviced it said don’t even think of replacing it with a new high tech one. For $6000 I can buy an awful lot of natural gas for this less efficient one. And the new ones, he told me, generally have a lifespan of only ten to fifteen years.
 
I’ve got one Corning ware coffee pot with the blue flower on it. I don’t use it though. That’s about 54 years old.
 
IIRC, that has a metal band around the neck?
It seems like it would rust or get hard to clean inside the gap where the pieces fit.
I do use the cookware every day and it’s held up well 🙂
 
@CelticWarlord, here is my beautiful toaster! Note the cloth covered cord! (I think it may be a replacement?)

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Wow, that’s older than ours. Those fabric cords were standard equipment with new appliances back in the day. It can also be dated by the rounded corners and slender openings. That’s an antique alright. And I love the rest of the kitchen visible in the reflection. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
 
The main feature of our kitchen is probably the refrigerator, which is covered, literally, with over 400 fridge magnets. When we had to buy a new one last year the job of removing and replacing them took hours. One set of 50 is the entire U.S. map. If I remember I’ll have our daughter take some pics and I’ll post them.
 
ZemD said:
He assured me it was still good and I could eat it before he died in 2016, I
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My pediatrician showed my parents a 20 year old bottle of formula to stress that it could still be used. (back then, folks used a “sterilizer” that effectively canned formula [milk, too, i think]).

As for us, we have a couple of the wooden TV trays still surviving and in use, a couple of pans (I think), a piece or three of corningware, and some wine glasses and china.

We pull out our actual toasting glasses every couple of years, and our white tablecloth and a cake knife were my great aunt’s wedding gifts that she passed down.

And we use my grandmother’s tupperware 2 quart measuring cup regularly, and her sifter on the occasion that someone uses flour.

And many wooden hangers that my grandmother, great aunt(s?), and great grandmother crocheted. One that broke revealed a six digit (two letter prefix +4) phone number from the dry cleaner it came from . . .
 
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