A Griswold cast iron skillet that my mother received as a wedding gift 75 years ago. I also use a desk from the Larkin soap company that my grandmother got around 1900.

My great grandmother's waffle iron. I have modern one, it just doesn't work nearly as well.

First thing I thought of was my brain, it's been through seven decades.

A wooden spoon from my mother's kitchen, which is probably older than I am (64). Also, I have books from the 16th c., but not sure if they count.

Lots of our furniture is a couple of centuries old. Does that count? If you mean kitchen stuff, my breadboard is 19th century, maybe 1880s, as are my kitchen scales. Also my Mum’s pressure cooker from the 1950s. And of course our house. 😉

My Grandmothers pin cushion. My Great aunts aluminum pans with lids. Also round aluminum cake pans with cake lifter thingy in them.

These items are very old and still very usable. They would have been about 130 years old now.

Probably my mom's fruit bowl. She used to put wax fruit it in from what I remember. It used to be up on my cabinets collecting dust but is now used for fruit on my island, looks like this one: old white colored glass fruit bowl - Bing images

DH is 73 and this bench was made by his uncle many ago when DH was a young boy.

This dresser. My mothers when she was a child. She said her brother and father stripped the white paint off of it, as it was purchased used.

I use the bed my grandma slept in when she was young. She was born in 1876. We also use daily the coffee table my uncle made for a wedding gift for my parents in 1940.

My Mom's (and Grandmother's before that) sewing table. I have their old pedal machine, but

just sit my Singer on the table. The drop-in table has great deep drawers (and one of these was full of buttons...I imagine the stories these buttons could tell) ;)

Probably our kitchen clock...it's an antique pendulum from about 1876.

Doorstop made in Germany by a friend of my great grandparents. They brought this with them when they immigrated in the late 19th Century. I don't have an exact age.

My mother's old glass, barrel shaped, flour jar. She said she got it when they lived on the Bailey Ranch. I know that is the area where I grew up, but have no idea where the Bailey Ranch was located or why they lived there. It was long before I was born. I have older things, but not using them right now.

I was going to say my husband LOL

My great grandmother's black walnut rolling pin that my great great granfather made for her for a wedding present.

Two pieces of furniture over 100 years old, which I've had for almost 49 years.

My Grandmother's four poster bed from the 1930's. She got rid of her "ugly old brass" bed that was so out of style.

Other than antique and vintage furniture, I have an electric coffee server from the 1960's that holds coffee for hours at the perfect temperature. It tastes just like it was freshly made. I don't know how it does that.

Our everyday silver is from the early 30s. It has been in continuous use all these years.

My wedding band is from the 40s. It was my grandmother's.

I have a stainless steel serving spoon from the 30s which belonged to the German deli my step father's parents owned in NYC. It looks brand new despite being used constantly all these years.

Zalco, do you know where the deli was?

Literally everything in my house is antique. Most from 40 plus years of weekly auctions and antique shows but a few are family pieces. I guess I'd say my tall case clock brought over from Switzerland in the early 1700s by paternal ancestors.

My grandmother's cast iron skillet. Love it.

It was in Forest Hills. They lived in the Gardens, must have been close. They arrived from Germany in '29 and retired in the mid-50s.

Ah, so before my time. :-) I was thinking of all the wonderful German delis/restaurants in Yorkville, a couple of which are still there.

the 2 hand sewn quilts mommy made for my twin beds as a teenager. so proud.

This is a such a great question i love all the stories and pictures. heart warming. keep going.

I'm another with a grandmothers waffle iron. Proctor, before they became Proctor Silex. So easy, never sticking, never needing anything but wiping down, but a circle divided into quadrants and a few years ago one of the quadrants stopped heating. I was heartsick, and haven't found one I really want for a replacement. Eggo's, anyone?

I have the tall narrow 5 drawer dresser that was in my parents room, then all our bedrooms as children, it's more than 75 years old. It's been painted every color in the world, I know this because I stripped it one year ;) The last bedroom it served was my little brothers and was painted red. My mother had free handed jungle animals on it. It's now cream with stenciled ivy and is in my office placed diagonally in a corner. Holds periodicals, catalogs, office supplies, mailing supplies.

I have the formal dining table, leaves, custom table pads and chairs that once belonged to a dear, dear friend. There's the wooden frame/rack that holds the leaves and pads when not in use. It had belonged to my brother in laws mother, when she downsized, he took it. Then, they made a great room of their kitchen and dining room....it didn't fit and he gave it to me. We don't entertain formally often, but I think of that strong, gracious woman every time I pass through that room...or, dust ;)

I wear the plain gold band always, right hand, that my mother was married in at 19. 1946.

I have antique Georgian silver 'on display', but as for 'in use', that could be a lap bowl carved out of a single maple log for kneading bread (with three little wood knobs added to the bottom for stability). It's on the kitchen table holding a succession of small flowering plants within a ring of fake greenery. Or, it could be the hand forged brass coal bucket, dents and all, that holds kindling beside the fireplace. I wonder how many hands kneaded that bread and how many servants hauled coal to fireplaces and stoves in what cold rooms before dawn.

DH’s great grandmother’s pie safe. She was born in 1870 so I’m guessing it was made right around 1900. I filled it with books. I also have a spinning wheel that belonged to another one of his ancestors, but I don’t use it.

Littlebug - that's beautiful!

To be a little different I thought of the oldest item bought or made specifically for me and that I still use. It's a book, the "Golden Field Guide to Birds of North America". My dear Grandparents sent it to me for my 8th birthday because I loved birds, and it's as useful and interesting and relevant for adults, as it was for me as a child. The oldest thing I bought for myself and still use is a rolling pin, purchased from a fancy kitchen store my first year on my own. It's smooth maple, straight not tapered, no handles, a pleasure to use, it'll never wear out.

Do teddy bears  count?

Teddy is 70.  He does have a new suit of clothes.

My piano, an 1886 Steinway upright with its original ivory keys in perfect condition. The Steinway Company keeps records, and my piano was bought in NY by a doctor from Seattle. To deliver it to him, it went on a ship. And because the Panama Canal didn't exist yet, it went all the way around South America to get to the West Coast. Second oldest is my husband's grandfather's 1921 Victor Victrola, which he gave to us when we were married in the 70's. My husband used to play with it when he was little. It works perfectly, and we play it and remember Nonno. What a sweetie he was!

What's the oldest thing you still own and use?

My diamonds. Took billions of years to make them, so they're all as old as dirt, I guess.

"I still use my mother's waterless cookware that she bought over 50 years ago." I still have, and use, the Wearever Waterless Cookware that I bought in 1968. They're great (although we don't necessarily use the waterless method).

I have a table in our foyer that my father made entirely by hand when he was 12 years old, in 1925. It has beautiful hand carving.

The walnut drop leaf table which was always in my mother's dining room is in my bedroom now. It was made by a relative on the paternal side of the family in 1834. It's written on the bottom.

Um, well I have my paternal grandmothers china, but I do not use it, because I do not like it and did not like her either. Its in a closet. I tend to not be attached to things from other people and prefer to buy things in my taste to my specifications. When I bought my house I simply refused to take anyone elses hand me down furniture. ( I did hurt my dads feelings because I did not want any more of his mothers things. He tried to foist her bedroom set on me. Its UGLY, masculine in style, and I did not want it. FOOT DOWN!)

The oldest thing I own is my baby blanket. Its almost 37 years old, like me, and I still sleep with it. Its satin edges are still intact and I find them soothing. Leo managed to steal it off the bed the other day and ripped it a little bit before I discovered it, so it may not last as long as I want it to. Fat headed mutt......

This original painting of San Isidro, the patron saint of farmers. It’s estimated to be approximately 150 years old and hangs in our dining room. I love it!

Auntie S gave me a moonstone ring and told me she lost the original stone about 1931 so the setting is that old.

I have her mother/my grandmas' bone china from that era too.

There is a large cinnabar vase on my piano, I guess I don't 'use' it but it dates from pre Commie China. Also I display a photo of a Great Grandmother from Approx. 1919.

I wear the plain gold band always, right hand, that my mother was married in at 19. 1946.

I wear my grandmother's plain gold wedding band from 1945. It is engraved with my grandfather's name, who is my son's namesake. Perhaps when my son marries, he and his future wife may take my grandparents' rings. My husband and I can buy new plain bands in that case :-)

The oldest thing is probably an oil lamp that my great uncle converted for electricity in 1920, but I don't know how old it is. We use it in a bedroom. Funny, though--- I'm thinking of converting it back to oil.

Stockman's desk circa:1800s

morz8 - Washington Coast - depending on how old that waffle iron is that could be repaired. The heating elements in old appliances were made to be replaceable. I have a 50's waffle iron and when you remove the plates for cleaning all the "guts" are exposed.

Something I bought myself that I've used every day for 57 years is a red-handled kitchen scissors with stainless steel (Solingen, W-Germany) blades. I just had it sharpened. DH was in PR at Allstate when we married, and we took advantage of his discount at Sears.

Another kitchen item still in use is the spatula that was part of a set that DH's office mates gave us. The silicone blade has a chiseled front edge that's superior to any new one I've found. It turns fried eggs at our house most Sunday mornings.

I want to say DH, but that probably isn't what you meant.

Hamilton Beach milkshake maker from the 40s.