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.
Are you Dexter?
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.
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.
- 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.
My wedding ring, of course.
Our cast-iron pots
My body
I also choose this person’s 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 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.
Came here to say my DE razor that I bought second hand which was made before WW2. Still going strong and used every day.
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 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!
