Old appliance

[magpie]

Things only seem to last 6 to 8 years max these days....

does my dad count ( he's an old ****** and does my garden ) :-)

very good he is to at it :-)

[shillelagh]

I had a 37 yr old appliance doing my garden this year only mowed the grass though - didnt have the time to do the weeding!!!

[Bonnyboy]

Cant see shoe polishing brushes applying here but the ones I have for doing the black shoes used to belong to my uncle when he was a kid...Im 46

[magpie]

Originally Posted by Bonnyboy

Cant see shoe polishing brushes applying here but the ones I have for doing the black shoes used to belong to my uncle when he was a kid...Im 46

Hope you got new shoes though.... I think most people use the stuff with a sponge on now a days...) used to love cleaning my shoes on a Sunday night ready for school.... and if I did my dads I got paid.....

[WillowTheWhisp]

Shoe polishing brushes? Do you just mean a brush that you use to polish the shoes by hand or some fancy mechanical type brush that does it for you?

I've got shoe brushes and clothes brush that I inherited from my mother, must be older than I am!

[West Ender]

That has reminded me that tucked away in a cupboard I've got 2 polishing brushes each stamped with the number 4243921. That was my husband's RAF number - the brushes were issued to him when he joined up in 1958.

I've also got an army blanket (last used as the late dog's blanket) that was issued to my eldest brother when he started his National Service in 1951. Heaven knows how old it is as it wasn't new when he got it.

[Bonnyboy]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Shoe polishing brushes? Do you just mean a brush that you use to polish the shoes by hand or some fancy mechanical type brush that does it for you?

I've got shoe brushes and clothes brush that I inherited from my mother, must be older than I am!

Just meant normal shoe brushes, one for application one for buffin' up

[bullseyebarb]

General Electric clothes dryer, circa 1968, General Electric microwave oven, circa 1980 and a Roper gas stove, circa 1979. All in good working order.

[shillelagh]

I got given a pocket clothes brush when i was about 9 by a neighbour who worked for Quicks at Bury and he'd been retired god knows how many years by then he died in 1986 in his 80's and ive still got it now.

[bullseyebarb]

Oh, yes, and I forgot to mention our Lawnboy mower, circa 1978.

[WillowTheWhisp]

ooooh just remembered I've got my Dad's old army blanket from the war! Horrible itchy old thing it is.

[MargaretR]

I have a plain white chamberpot which was wedding present to my mum and dad from fellow mill workers in mid 1930s. It was a common practice to give a chamberpot which was gift wrapped containg 2 black puddings and a stick of thick liquorice