Our cast-iron pots
Same with my cast iron pans.
In line with this, I love my carbon steel wok and pans.
+1 cast iron crew, I have my mother’s pans, which were her grandmother’s. They had a little rough patch when mom went through some shit, and I later had to reseason them but they are 👨🍳🤌💋 now.
Other lifetime items would be my piano, Singer sewing machines, china (I have like 4 passed down collections, lol), and probably most of my hand tools.
Our cast iron pots were inherited from my grandmother, and I expect when I die they’ll find another home.
Probably our stainless steel too
I’m in my 70s, soooo pretty much everything I own. Sigh.
Do you mind if I ask you how you made it to Lemmy?
I found it on the internet.
- Kitchen knives. No reason to replace them with others that would do the exact same thing.
- Cast iron skillets. Indestructable, will easily outlive me.
- Shemagh scarf. Oldest piece of clothing I have. I’ve had it for almost 20 years.
- Bushcraft knife. Indestructable, does everything it needs to and nothing else. No need to upgrade.
- Leatherman Wave. There are newer and better ones out there but it has sentimental value to me and 99% of the time when I need a multitool it’s either the pliers or screwdriver that I’m after.
- Yeti thermos mug. Can’t possibly imagine what new feature a mug could have that would make me want to upgrade.
The newer Leathermans aren’t better, their durability and build quality took a nosedive. If you have an old Wave, that’s the best Leatherman you’ll ever be able to own.
It’s around 20 years old, if not older. What’s interesting to me is that when I bought it, I hadn’t done any research - I just walked up to the Leatherman display at the store, fiddled with all of them, and the Wave was the one I liked best. Only 15 years later did I find out it’s one of their best selling models.
The only feature from the newer models I wish it had is one handed operation for the pliers where you can just flick it open like a pocket knife.
I’ve seen knives break so I don’t imagine they will last the rest of my life but I don’t see any reason to replace them if they are still in good working order or reparable
The cast iron has made it 30 years with me and I expect it to live past my lifetime and my kids’ lifetimes and if they have any kids who want them, outlive them as well.
I have some furniture (cabinets) from my grandma that my kids want when I die too, in particular the gun cabinet my dad converted to a shelved cabinet.
I never want to move again, so the house I hope but it requires so much maintenance I don’t know if it counts.
If I can possibly keep my 2014 Honda going I will. Would prefer to keep it until I stop driving (love it so much) but like the house, at some point I’m not sure it’s the same car.
I have ADHD, so literally nothing is safe.
Same, but I have some hope for the 440 lbs anvil in the shed.
Same. Plus hobbies and interests change so there is always new stuff coming and old stuff going.
For my creative work I need scalpels and blades. Buying good quality Swann Morton blades in small packages is very costly. So I bought 200pcs Box. Whenever I take a new blade, I think how I will pick from this box mostly for the next 40 years of my life. I might even die before I used the last blade. But then again, that was how I got my first blades from my grandfather back when I was a teenager. It seems to be a pan-generational item in our family.
Are you Dexter?
Curious what you use scalpel blades for in your hobby?
My house.
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My body
I also choose this person’s body
Our body!
Oh great, another Borg drone, let me guess resistance is futile?
Lucky! Some of us live places that don’t allow you to own one of these
Very little of what is your body now will remain in a few years. That’s less terrifying than it sounds because we replace bits of ourselves on a constant basis. With every breath we lose carbon that may have been in us for years. Every bathroom visit contains not just food remnants but little bits of ourselves that have already been replaced and broken down.
About the only things that don’t get some level of replacement are our teeth and the floaters in our eyes.
Most of them honestly. I rarely buy non-food stuff. So as long as my gadgets, clothes, and tools continue to work and don’t break, I’ll use them forever.
My pliers. They’re passed down from my great-grandfather. He bought them used.
Let me guess; Knipex?
No, they’re Soviet pliers he bought in the 40’s. They look similar to these:
Note the pinchy parts on the outside of the pivot that will cut you if you’re careless while opening the pliers.
Noted.
In Soviet Russia, pliers cut you!
The clothes that juuuuust don’t quite fit that I’m hoarding just in case I manage to lose that wright I’ve been trying to lose for the last thirty years now.
My HP48GX purchased in 1995 is still going strong and I see no reason it won’t last another 30 years (unlike my body).
RPN FTW!
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I think we skew a little older than social media generally as a whole.
I’ve always assumed that the average user here is around 30 years old.
Sometimes I feel like I could BIFL a sandwich.
My guitar.
My collection of straight razors.
Most are made somewhere in the last century, some are even older then that. These have a theoretical lifespan as sharpening them will remove the tiniest bit of metal but as I have 100+ of them I think I will never ever have to buy a razor again in my life. Heck, even my children and their grandchildren will be able to use them. If they have the nerve and courage to use them that is.
Came here to say my DE razor that I bought second hand which was made before WW2. Still going strong and used every day.
Pffft, that takes too long. Real men shave with a belt sander.
