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.
- Kitchen knives.
Ditto. I have a couple I want to get as extravagant extensions to the collection, but very few I can foresee getting rid of. Even the old, heavy, no-name chef’s knife I inherited from grandma has a place as an impromptu machete for spaghetti squash.
- Cast iron skillets.
Again, same.
- Yeti thermos mug.
Hmmm. For me, it’s Zojirushi thermoses. We have two that we’ve had for over a decade each. There’s a rubber seal I always worry will wear out some day, but they both still look like new so maybe they’ll last forever.
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.
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?
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.
My house.
Yeah, I’m never going through that process ever again haha
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!
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.
My fountain pens (one was already inherited from my grand father).
Second that. Whichever niece or nephew that shows an appreciation for handwriting or fountain pens is going to inherit a small fortune in pens.
That’s a possibility, for sure.
I could/should have added ‘books’—good old quality print books. They won’t go anywhere, and no corporation will be able to delete them because of licensing issue and no one will be able to edit them in order to ‘improve their content’ by making it fit whatever trend/hysteria. And those books will stay unchanged no matter if less and less people are interested in reading or are even able to read.
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.
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.
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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 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!
A really good friend got me a Le Creuset dutch oven for christmas and I got another used one for relatively cheap and I really love them. I would never buy them new, but they are really well made and I’ve managed to bake some nice sourdough bread with them.
