Your oldest, but regularly used appliance?

My parents gave me their 8 year old Miele larder fridge when I moved into my first place in 2002. When I "upgraded" to a fancy stainless steel American monstrosity in 2005, I asked what they wanted me to do with it (sell/donate/dump)...

...they had a summer garden party planned for my grandfather's 70th, so I dropped it round and helped dad carry it through, out into the garden, next to the utility room and plugged it into a weatherproof extension reel, which ran through the catflap. It's not under any sort of cover, just a relatively sheltered alcove in the garden.

So the Miele fridge my parents splashed out on when they bought their first house in 1994 (when Dad left the Navy), is now called "The Magic Fridge" because:
A) It's never empty (the house rule is that if you take the last can/bottle of beer/cider/pop/champagne, you restock it)
B) It just won't bloody die...

Will grab a photo next time I'm round there.
 
Our dryer must be 20+ years old. The plastic parts have all turned yellow and it looks awful, but it seems a shame to replace it when it works fine still.
 
My mum had a Zanussi dryer that she got as a wedding present.. I think 1992? And she gave it away for free when moving house (new house only had space for a washer or dryer, not both) in 2022 and it was still working. It also lived most of its life outside in a garage with no heating.

Definitely don't build them like they used to.
She also had a Morphy Richards toaster, again a wedding present from 1992, and it died in the mid 2010s I think.
 
Got a Bosch fridge and freezer over 30 years old in the garage (beer fridge and overflow freezer) never even had to replace a single part.
 
I have had the same computer, used daily since 1992. Very similar to Trigger off of Only Fools and Horses and his broom, it's all down to maintenance. This old PC has had 7 new cases, 17 new motherboards, 13 sets of RAM, 19 graphics cards, 5 keyboards, 7 monitors and 15 storage drives. Never skipped a beat.
 
Nothing specifically old now, but oldest was a chest freezer me and the then-girlfriend-now-wife bought when we moved in together back in 2003. It lasted 21 years until April this year when we finally replaced it as it had started to rust quite badly on the outside and the seal was starting to go. Inside was fine though.

I'd expected a newer one to be more green™ and efficient™ given 20+ years of progress, but nope. Literally no change at all in electricity consumption.
 
For us it's probably the Zanussi tumble dryer at 18 years old and washing machine at 17. Second place probably goes to the Miele vacuum cleaner that'll likely outlive us.

My sister is still using my nan's Kenwood A107A food mixer from the 1960s.
 
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