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What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time? (linux.community)

submitted 1 year ago by ExLisper@linux.community to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Sometimes I will use something and realize I've owned it forever. It's a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never felt like changing it.

What's your record?

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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Easy: I have used my Norwegian teapot every day for as long as I can remember - easily 50 years, plus some 15+ years where my dad used it before me, plus another unknown number of years before him, because he picked it up doing his rounds as a garbage man in his student years (1960s). That thing is ancient, and still going strong. Never gonna let it go.

That teapot must be tied with the Danish dinner tableware inherited from my grandparents. That stuff has also been in use literally daily since the 1950s.

Talk about built to last, and buy it for life. Amazing.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ceramic or metal?

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Metal, with a glass lid and a bakelite handle.

It's non-magnetic but too light to be aluminium, I don't know what material it is made of.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Unobtanium.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I destroy anything that isn't metal out if clumsiness but I love this general design (the Norwegian teapot). Congrats on yours, really enjoyed the history of it.