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Our cast-iron pots

I'm in my 70s, soooo pretty much everything I own. Sigh.

• 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 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.

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.

My house.

My pliers. They're passed down from my great-grandfather. He bought them used.

My body

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 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!

My fountain pens (one was already inherited from my grand father).

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 guitar.

My wedding ring, of course.

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.

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.

A hercules coffee cup I've had since I was around six.

My bicycle

I'm old enough to realize most everything will either need to be replaced or given up as lifestyles change, but young enough not to count random stuff I happen to have.

Some really precious things I'll keep forever, but don't really use.

Just looking around the house and thinking, will I have any of this in my last years is sobering.

That said there are a few knickknacks I'm likely to keep since they are small and easy to keep up with. Maybe my collection of old Christmas albums. A few ornaments. A few Keychain. Deploymas....

My Dutch oven. It cost a fair bit, but with a modicum of care it’ll last well my past lifetime.

My Rotring 600 mechanical pencil, my Canon 2000 film camera, and my TI-36x Pro calculator.

• When it come to writing, I have never used a smoother implement, nor one that is constructed of such robust materials. For a long time I used a "nicer" mechanical pencil from Tūl, but does not compare to the Rotring.
• My Canon film camera is old and not a particularly fancy model, but it takes excellent photos and perfectly exemplifies the authentic emotion of film photos. I use it when I go on adventures with my friends, and the photos are always fun and genuine.
• I have tried a dozen different calculator apps, and none of them are as efficient to use as a physical calculator. It does what I need to without the feature cramming that calculator apps suffer from.

Cutlery from William Sonoma. Partner said she loved my kitchen for cooking because I had the best stuff. Now it’s our stuff.

Electric shaver (oscillating)

Bone-conducting headphones

Multi-tool (all stainless construction)

There are some strange answers here. Either there are a lot of very old people or people who should be on suicide watch given their suggestions of things that clearly won't last very long. I'm assuming a difference between things breaking and things being broken through misuse.

Pretty much all of my music stuff (instruments, amps, pedals). I could maybe see myself selling some, or trading or whatever. But at least the physical instruments should last a long forever....unless some catastrophic event damages them.