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I am a tool who is more than 20 years old

Most of it lol! My microwave was built in sept 1983, I have a scythe and a machete both from the 1920's, my amp was bought new in 1998, the speakers are even older.

The vast amount of furnishings are older as well, aside from my tv (3yrs), the freezer (3 yrs), and my fridge (4yrs). Washer is I think around 10, the dryer may be 20ish.

My Xbox 360 is 1 month away from being 20 years old.

my house was made in 1870. I regularly buy and restore hand woodworking tools about that old too.

how what’s NOT old but is annoying is the varmints in my wall trying to get warm for the winter.. sigh.

I glanced up from desk and the first thing I saw was a leather postcard that somebody sent to my great-grandmother back when she was "Miss." The postmark and date are worn away, but the art is copyright 1906. It's such a weird little artifact... someone clearly just cut out a mini-postcard from a hunk of leather by hand, and then printed an owl and a moon on it, and then "GET WISE Come to" and then someone scratched in pen where they were supposed to come to, but that's worn away. And on the back is space for filling in a name and address (which it kind of looks like was done with a burning tool, that part still readable, a little unsteady but mostly in this big-style ornate cursive like the Constitution), and not space for anything else. There's no message. Just "Come To (scratches)."

I have no idea why they made a leather postcard, but if they were looking to make a little novelty item that people would consider as special they succeeded, because for whatever reason I still have it well over a hundred years later.

The fridge in my apartment of 32 years old.

I have several cameras that are 50-70 years old that I still use regularly.

I have a Lower Paleolithic Acheulean bi-face hand axe likely made by Homo erectus. My father-in-law brought it back from Libya when he was working in oil fields in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I had it assessed by a lithic-specialist archeologist from the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Dr. Harry Shafer, who wrote a nice little report on the piece.

My treadle sewing machine is roughly 100 years old. My cast iron pans are at least that old as well.

But srsly, I still have things in my closet that are 20+ years old.

I have a cupboard and desk from 1776. They're a pain to move because ceilings are too low nowadays.

Although the oldest thing is an ammonite fossil I found.

My great grandfather’s bed, dresser, and chest of drawers is around 100 years old. When he passed way, my mom had it refinished, and I slept in it at home during high school. After I got married, I took to my home, and I’ve had it ever since.

My Trek bicycle is that old now. It's a hybrid bike and I just maintain it every couple of years and it jjust keeps going. I ride the hell out of it, it's a tank (so heavy) but I love it.

My radio from 1972, an RGD Olympic. When I was at university I lived in student halls and would often walk past this charity shop. It seemed to be open about one afternoon a week so stuff would sit in the window for quite a while.

I paid £6 and didn't use it all that much but these days I use it most days. It's bizarrely loud and has a huge power button, making it very satisfying to turn on.

I have several calculators and electronic organizers that are old enough to drink in the US. A few slide rules that are old enough to retire. I might have some weird stuff in the back of the freezer that would qualify, too.

My Fan, it's the oldest thing I own. It's a little older than my mother.

My grandma gave it to me when she bought a new one.
My family has bought countless new fans over the years because they break, but this one of mine keeps working like the day I got it, and that's in a hot climate, I use it 10h a day for a big portion of the year

Most of the things in my house are more than 20 years old.

My Yamaha AN1x and Novation Supernova synths. The pans in my kitchen were bought dirt cheap after I left university, and they are still going strong. Plenty of books and records. I have a box of old computer bits - SCSI adapters and such like. I have no idea why I still have that. A broken Eko 3/4 size guitar that I'd love to get fixed.

A ton of things; from my Driza-Bone wax coats to my Game Boy. I've got plenty of old tshirts, posters, electronics and vinyl records.

Happens when you get addicted to collecting different stuff every 2 weeks. Old stuff is pretty cool, though.

I'd estimate that about 3/4 of the furniture in my home is hand me downs or family pieces. Plus all the stuff I'm holding onto from my teenage years and earlier (books, mugs, hats, game systems and games).

There's a decent age gap between my wife and her older siblings. They're established with kids just finishing college, and we had just built our first (and so far only) house, so when her parents passed most of their furniture went to us.

The writing desk, the Macintosh-style chair that my brother made, this bed. The bookshelves (that I made) are probably around that old now (virtually all the books on them are older than that too, as are some of the clothes in the wardrobe). King Ludd - my old desktop that I haven't switched on at all in the last 4 years but still don't want to get rid of - is about that old too. It is basically a piece of furniture now. When it comes to it the aspidistra that is stood on it is more than twice that age - probably about three times in fact.

That coil-lead, clip-on, bright red lamp in the corner is more than twice that too. I bought it (and another) for a bedside 'table' project involving an oil drum in the late '80s. I never finished the project. I could carry on with stuff outside this room, but...

My guitar was made in 1985

I think the majority of my stuff is over 20 years old.

A few hard drives, SNES, Commodore 64, PS2, Nintendo DS, monopoly, risk, risk 30th anniversary collectors edition, Atmosfear:Harbingers, multiple decks of cards, various clothes, multiple guitars, many books, a 2048x1152 resolution monitor, camping chairs, tent, sleeping vag, bunch of stationary and office/school supplies, coffee mugs, glasses, chefs knife, my favourite spoon, various other wearables(rings, belt, hats etc), my snowboard and bindings(really need to replace the bindings),

A vast mjority of our objects are 20+ years. I can think of:

• Books. Most are form the 19th century, quite few are much older than that. Some more are from the XXth. I have a few from the XXI too, but they're the minority ;)
• Bookshelves. They're your standard Ikea but they must be at least 20 years old.
• Some of my notes and manuscripts are 35+ years. I still use reading notes I made back at university in the early 90s.
• A few CDs and probably DVDs too.
• My FM radio is from 1995, or so.
• My thermal typewriter is from the late 80s, still working wonders. My mechanical typewriter is from my grandfather and must date back from the 60s.
• Our dining table. It too was inherited from my grandfather, who already got it as an antiquity (it's worth nothing, I just like it a lot: it's so well crafted it's a joy to look at that craftsmanship)
• A few of my fountain pens.
• One of my two watches.
• Plates and silverwares.
• Heck, even our oven is 40+ years old (still working great).
• Tea pot and kettle.
• My Victorinox pocket knife. Must be at least 45 years old.
• My grandfather's chess pieces (the one he made to play chess, while he was a war prisoner in WWII Germany) with the chessboard he sketched on the back of a large sheet of paper.
• My own set of chess pieces and chessboard.
• My portable Kasparov Advanced Trainer is from 1988 or 89, I believe. It's much less powerful than any recent chess engine, but unlike most contemporary electronics it is still working perfectly after all those years.
• A few pictures of me and my spouse, not much as we're not obsessed with photographing ourselves. Some photographs that photographers friends offered me or that I purchased along the years.
• Last but I hope not least, my spouse and I :p

I have a number of tools and pieces of furniture that I inherited from my grandfather. Most of 50 - 70 years old.

The best one is one he made from the leaf spring off a car he rebuilt for my mom in the 60s. He cut and ground the end and made the best pry bar ever. I've had family come to borrow it for home renovations. It wiggles into even tight gaps, does less damage than it seems like it should, and the slight springiness really helps you get those really stubborn nails to gradually pull free.

I have books from 19th century.

I still have the same dresser and endtable from my childhood! They were solidly crafted from good quality wood, so I've kept them through every move I've ever made.

Loads of vintage shotguns and one from 1895. Recently fixed up my great grandfather's WWI shaving and snakebite kits.

My pocketknife is 24 years old. Somehow still in decent shape.

I've got a copy of the Fannie Farmer cookbook that predates WW2

Our dining room table, sideboards, etc. were brought from England to Canada by an ancestor in about 1850.

I could damn near write a book! I collect old electronic test equipment & computers, as well as old processors/chips. So quite a bit of that. Tools-wise I have quite a few, my favorite few being my great great grandfather’s tap & die set (early 1900s), my 1985 Bridgeport R2E4 C/NC milling machine that I’m restoring, and my 1954 Sheldon lathe!

I have optical disks from before 2005 that may work. bunch of toys. comics. im sure many tools in my toolbox. my bike is older. backpack and maybe some other bags. most of my clothes I bet. some furniture. some kitchenware. towels and bedding. man there is a lot.