What is the oldest item you use on a regular basis?
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I think almost everyone had a model similar to this at one point. Those GE alarm clocks were everywhere.
my dad made a coffee table in 1958 that is still in use. it holds 91 beer cans perfectly on one level.
I have an early 70’s Schwinn I restored that I like to ride around when I’m just bar hopping or riding with the family.
I have a Sears air compressor from the mid 70s that I've used to do all of the wood flooring, roofing, siding, woodworking projects, tire rotations, etc. in my entire life. It was my grandfather's. I never met him and have seen very few photos of him, so that air compressor gives me the strongest sense of connection I have to him. I hope to keep using it forever.
An R11 7 wood is the oldest golf club in my shiny bag of mostly new clubs.
Not this one, but one that's just like it (albeit far more faded). 1958 McCormick Farmall 450. We use it on the farm to park implements in tight sheds where big tractors can't maneuver.
Surprised it took this long for this response to appear. This was going to be my response.
I think the question was what do you use the most, not what you have @CoachHines3 use for you.
I have a 15 year old calculator that cost a dollar at the dollar store and I use it at work every single day and no way should it have lasted this long. It seriously should have lasted like a month and it just keeps working.
As an insurance professional, this one is making me nervous. It seems like a fire hazard.
Even though I use all sorts of other tools and software, I use my TI-30SLR calculator that sits on my desk on a daily basis. Its from circa 1983.
Without thinking too much harder, that's probably mine too. Still have my TI-30SLR+ on my desk. Got it for Algebra2/Trig back about ~1988. Got me thru AeroE and all the associated calculus as well. Don't use the trig functions much these days.
The solar cells still work, it powers itself no problem.
Edit: OU812, if we're showing off, here's mine!
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It says use on a regular basis. If girlfriend, I’d believe. Wife, no.
legit question but its quicker and easier a lot of the time......and obviously a very old habit!
