Which old-school appliance do you still own and use?

Answer 1

Favorite Answer

1920s sewing machine.

Answer 2

Open reel valve/tube tape recorder a decade ago.

Answer 3

A Nokia mobile phone from 2006

Answer 4

VHS recorder and player, 8-track and cassette tape player. Grass clippers shaped like scissors. Steel scythe for mowing the tall weeds (quieter than a power mower). 1950s era lawn sprinklers (waterfall, oscillating, whirling). Electric Belgian waffle iron (no longer use the cast-iron one on the stove, but could). Wood-fired boiler for heating the house. Dial telephone (wall phone and candle-stick phone). Planning to get my turntable repaired to play my LP collection. Coleman gasoline-powered lantern in the woodshed. Several kerosene lamps. Hand-pump for backup water supply from the well. CB radio. AM/FM stereo receiver with large Advents (1975). Analog TV with knobs and no remote-control of any kind. Two-part, screw-together espresso boiler. Mercury-filled wall barometer (1870s). Wind-up clocks (several from US Civil War era). Spring-powered mousetraps. Twist-powered doorbell. Pressurized water fire extinguishers from 1980s. Still camera. Flip phone. Electric typewriter (rarely used).

Answer 5

cassette Walkman

Answer 6

I bought my electric mixer in 1978. Still works fine.

Answer 7

You say old school and answers are from the last 20 years, interesting. My table saw is from the 1940's, I still use many hand tools from that time period. I also have VCR's, a landline, a clock radio/alarm,

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Hand-winding wrist watch.

Manual geared car.

Answer 10

Oven

Answer 11

A Ready Reckoner.