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.

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

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 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.

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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 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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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