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In a throw-away world.....a keeper

tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
....I was mashing taters today with a hand held mixer, when it occurred to me that it had been a wedding gift 29 years ago. It's a cheap GE (probably a $6 K-Mart special). I looked on the bottom, and sho' 'nuff....Made in the USA..Bridgeport Conn.
.....Got me to thinking. My mom still has a fridge in her basement that has run non-stop for over 50 years. Guns aside, who has some things that have lasted beyond their expected lifespan?
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am 47. Don
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  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the exhust fan over the stove was put in in 1961 when the kitchen was remodeled. it's a nutone,and even surived the small fire in 1972. still works fine.
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don...It's known that pickled things can last virtually forever.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by tapwater
    Don...It's known that pickled things can last virtually forever.


    [:D][:D][8D][:D][:D]
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  • swamp_thingswamp_thing Member Posts: 695 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My sister and brother in law have a central air conditioner unit in their home that was installed in 1969 and is set at 68 degrees all summer long. It has never had anything other than one contactor, $15.00, replaced about 15 years ago. Every year it faithfully runs through the summer, keeping the house cold and dry. Try that with a new style heat pump. swamp_thing
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,477 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wife and I will be celebrating our 25th later this month...I say I got a keeper....[:)]
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by William81
    My wife and I will be celebrating our 25th later this month...I say I got a keeper....[:)]


    GE fridge about 40-50yrs. old, still used daily and works well.

    York central air installed new in 91' and 200-$300 repair everyyy steenkn year since. Total junk.
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  • COLTCOLT Member Posts: 12,637 ******
    edited November -1
    ...don't ask me,...even my light bulbs have to replaced on a rotating basis...[:0]





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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Watch an old episode of "Bewitched" sometime and pay particular attention to the stove in Darren and Samantha's kitchen. I have almost the exact same model in my home. My parents purchased it probably around 1959 or thereabouts. (I live in the original house that my great-grandparents built in 1902 when they moved here from Iowa. Of course, it HAS had some modifications over the years - I actually have electricity AND indoor plumbing!)

    The stove is quite unique with one small and one large oven side by side on top with a "pull-out" (pull it out halfway for one large and one small burner, pull the rest of the way out and have two small burners and two large burners) rangetop below them. It also features roomy double door storage at the bottom of the whole shebang. The insignia on the front proudly proclaims - "Frigidaire - product of General Motors".

    As far as I know, my parents had no problems whatsoever with this stove. All I have ever had to do with it is replace a couple of burners. Everyone who comes to my house remarks on how they have never seen such a unit.
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  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is a light bulb in my apt that I haven't changed in at least 8 years (and I use it every day). . . it might be one of them fluorescent jobbies. . .but I dont think so.

    Have had the same $25 guitar for 14 years. . .broke the neck off at the heel about 9 years ago. . .glued it. . .works fine. . .recently fell over and broke right through the headstock. . .glued it. . .works fine

    My ex-girlfriend always did all her sewing on a manual Singer sewing machine. . .made in 1870-something. That one could easily last ANOTHER 100 years. . .they really DON'T make em like that anymore!

    Stove in her apt (that she still uses) is at least 50 years old.
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  • Hylander50Hylander50 Member Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've got a Buck model 110 lockblade knife I have had for over 20 years. For almost 17 of those years, it was my daily carry knife as a paramedic. It has been half way around the world and back. It still serves me as well as the day I bought it. Granted, it has been sharpened a time or two; but, it has never failed me, yet.

    Hylander
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  • shoff14shoff14 Member Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where I work we have an International Harvester fridge, yeah, IH fridge. It still runs and is used daily. It was turned into a kegerator during my bosses college years, in the 60's...
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  • victorlvlbvictorlvlb Member Posts: 5,004
    edited November -1
    When was the last time you had to replace a light switch, or a 110 volt receptical in your house? Well if want to sell your house you will have to change all your bed room recepicals to be able to sell a house.
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a good friend that has been driving two 1940 Dodge trucks since the late 1950s.Both still use flathead six cylinder engines and both still use six volt systems.Last year him and his wife went down to the local Dodge truck dealer and he bought her a brand new diesel crewcab to pull a horse trailer.He paid $40,000 cash and the salesman damn near had a stroke.The salesman thought they were a couple of hillbillys when a pulled up in his 1940 Dodge tow truck.
    EvilDr235
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  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    67 bug ... runs like a watch, 40 years next year.
    Cost $1200 new. [:D]
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  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Somewhere, I'm sure the first microwave my family every owned (purchased in 1975) is still working. I let it go when I was combining households with my fiancee` in 1998.

    I have a Hunter brand window fan that has been in use every summer since the '70s.
    I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bought my first upright freezer (21') in 63- the kids are still using it.
    Not one blink.
    [^]barto[^]
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  • JgreenJgreen Member Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I did the estate of my across the street neighbors. In the basement, they had a washer from the 1970's that didn't work. However, you remember seeing the old tub washers, on four thin legs, with the electric wringer on the top (the two rolls that you'd put the clothing thru, and pinch your fingers?) It turns out they'd been using that all along, through 2003, and I know this because there was a new plastic female hose end that had replaced the metal end where you'd hook up the washer to the spigot.
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  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Jgreen
    I did the estate of my across the street neighbors. In the basement, they had a washer from the 1970's that didn't work. However, you remember seeing the old tub washers, on four thin legs, with the electric wringer on the top (the two rolls that you'd put the clothing thru, and pinch your fingers?) It turns out they'd been using that all along, through 2003, and I know this because there was a new plastic female hose end that had replaced the metal end where you'd hook up the washer to the spigot.


    My neighbor still uses his old wringer washer but his has a hand crank wringer on top.
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    My zennith console TV is 18 years old....it runs almost non-stop these days. but i think it was made in japn ooops
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  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by victorlvlb
    When was the last time you had to replace a light switch, or a 110 volt receptical in your house? Well if want to sell your house you will have to change all your bed room recepicals to be able to sell a house.



    What in the heck are you talking about? I could smash all my bedroom outlets with a hammer and it is still possible to sell the house. I could rip all the lectricity out of the house and still sell it.

    My dad just sold his house and they wanted him to put GFCI outlets in the BATHROOM (not bedroom). He told them to go pound sand hewas selling the house as is. The house sold and the buyer put them in.
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Bloviator
    ...don't ask me,...even my light bulbs have to replaced on a rotating basis...[:0]





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    yep same here, my stuff knows when i have money, every time i think i will be able to put any away something breaks down
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  • s.guns.gun Member Posts: 3,245
    edited November -1
    Montgomery Ward 8 inch portable Rotary Hand Saw my Dad bought in the early 50's.It has made thousands of cuts with no problems.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I still have the leisure suit I wore to my prom. Don
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  • wizard78wizard78 Member Posts: 3,144 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have an old (1940's vintage) Garand that stils runs like a top. [:D]
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  • Queen of SwordsQueen of Swords Member Posts: 14,355
    edited November -1
    Not particularly fond of "new stuff", most of mine is antique. My experience is, the quality is just not there.
    Been thru 7 or 8 mixers, irons various small appliances in my adult life. The one that is sticking with me and I can still rely upon is a circa late '50's model, couter-top model, wit the cloth-covered cord. I pull her out when I need a heavy job done, like my Christmas cookies.
    Not operated without supervision, but still highly operational.....
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,233 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    Well, I have a Quasar microwave that was made in 1978. I bought it used in 1983 or '84. It's our nuker and works like a champ.
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