Ask Lemmy

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.

I'm going to assume I'll live another 45 years here.

My first electric Guitar should probably last and holds some sentimental value. My other guitars I can imagine selling at some point even though right now I like them.

Maybe some tools will last that are little more than solid pieces of metal. But how much use I'll have for them when I'm in my 80s i don't know, so maybe they move on before I do.

Kitchen table and coffee table are very solid and may out live my kids. But maybe we'll decide to swap to something else with a different style after 30 years, who knows.

That's all I can think of that has any chance of me keeping that long without breaking through standard use.

My bicycle

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

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.

Our cast-iron pots

A morakniv knife, a ka-bar knife and an Opinel knife.

A Citizen watch A Kenneth Cole mechanical watch

A lighter

Now I understand why we men love all these things. They last forever and for some reason this really appeals to men.

I have ADHD, so literally nothing is safe.

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 accoustic guitar, I desperately hope, I love it way too much to ever be without it.

• 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.

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.

Electric shaver (oscillating)

Bone-conducting headphones

Multi-tool (all stainless construction)

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

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

My body

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.

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!

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 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.

My umbrella. It's been absolutely worth it to invest in a solid umbrella.

Virtually everything, only expecting another 5 years, tops. :(

My guitar.