Cuisinart Food Processor. Use it all the time. Got it as a gift from my mom in college. Just harvested a ton of basil last night and made “pesto pucks” to freeze to use over the winter.
Coffee brewer. Desk. Have a 100(?) year old wooden couch that the dog likes to sleep on.
Most of my audio gear. Receivers, turntable, eq, speakers…
If you want to build yourself a nice “vintage” sound system, look for things made before 1980ish. pretty much everything built before that was made to last and can always be repair. After that, they started to deliberately make things that would break within a couple of years so that isn’t meant to be repaired.
A clip-on lamp whose shade I replaced with a tin can.
Guitar
The wife
Was totally going to say this, or any part of my body really. My back, my knee. We are officially old this year. But it’s felt that way for a decade at least.
I heard a rumour that not a single cell in your body is over 20 years old.
An ice cream scooper from the 1940’s with a mechanical scoop releaser and a bread knife from the 80’s, both random bits that were passed down the family. Nothing special, just very well made tools. Also a Hala desk lamp circa 1950.
My aunt has a 40’s era sunbeam stand mixer that works perfectly… just needs a new electrical chord. Most things are made to be replaced now. Those not so much.
My sister in law got my mil’s KitchenAid stand mixer that my wife carved her brother’s name into when she was a kid. Works like a champ.
Oh yeah I have a monstrous Vorwerk juicer that, judging from the design, is from the 1950s or 60s. Works perfectly.
I never had to fix anything for the over 20y I had it.ice cream scooper from the 1940’s
I’d say that is special
About half of my books.
I’ve a bunch that are over a hundred years old.
Some of my kitchen knives, at least one is 40+ and others 20+, generally a lot of my kitchen utensils are quite old
Ooh I love this. I started with nothing less than 20 years ago so I don’t have much that old, but my Playstation 2 still gets used on occasion
My rice cooker, I’m convinced it will out live me.
The kitchen TV, one of the first flat-screen TVs, a Sharp with 720p resolution, I think 21 inches. It’s sad to think that since then, four different TVs have been in my living room.
The janky fluorescent anglepoise desk lamp. It’s about 30 years old and I’ve changed the bulb once.
I have a living room table that dad made over 40 years ago.
My spouse and I both have mid century 5 drawer tanker desks. I’m sitting at it to type this.
Attached to my monitor stand is the modified remains of an 80’s gravity lamp. The base broke but the springs are good and it makes a great spotlight.
Our server and tv are built into the remains of an early 80’s Zenith console TV. The screen was dead so we cut out space behind the decorative front pannel for a 32in flat screen and cut down the tower to work as scaffolding for the computer parts. Tossed a sound bar in and now it booms like a theater. You don’t even notice the 2in of screen that’s losts on the ends.
Our stove is a Montgomery Ward from the late 70s. It’s an absolute marvel to use. The clock is broken so I’m planning to dismantle that area to put controls for a vent fan I want to install in the attached shelf.
Our fridge is modern but the second I find myself a '64 GE Americana I’m gutting it to modetnize that masterpiece. Unless I find the tools for metal fab first…
My Samsung microwave is from the mid 70’s. It doesn’t have a turn table but it heats food better than any modern box and has a fraction of the radio leak that my Walmart one had.
Do you have a writeup with pics for the server/tv project? That sounds very very cool.
I actually don’t, but it’s nowhere near as impressive as you might assume lol
We picked the TV up on marketplace. Unscrewed everything that was originally inside it and disposed of that stuff. I took the plastic faux wood decor off, laid the TV over the hole where the screen was, traced it with sharpie, and cut it with a sawzaw. Now the TV is held in place by the faux wood frame on the front and nylon straps on the back.
As for the server, I took an old tower and drilled out all the rivets until all the exterior pieces were off, then I used some the loose screws from the TV guts to anchor it too the inside of the TV box.
We have little strips of fabric covered posterboard hiding the ugly areas at the top and bottom of the screen and if I ever get around to it I’ll disable the TV and wrap a full sheet if fabric around the front frame so that it transitions a little better.
Very cool, I love it!
