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Our appliances came with the house, and for the most part we've updated them. I'd say all over them are within 5 years old now.
Except for the washing machine. A Maytag from good old 1979. It still works well, and does the job, so in no rush to replace it.
Wife thinks it's embarrassing to have a 39-year old washing machine...but I'm all for letting it go until it dies!
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My Grandmother's triple-decker home still has the original three boilers in the basement. They date back to around 1890. Asbestos-wrapped, with cast-iron decretive lids. They are about 6 feet tall and 4 feet in diameter. They were originally coal fired, but were converted to home heating oil at some point in the 1940's. Still woefully inefficient, but reliable as hell. I can still find bits of coal in that basement if I poke around.
If we ever replace one of those boilers, i'm yanking the cast iron coal door off and hanging it on the garage wall. It's beautiful
My mother's 1971 avocado refrigerator was doing fine right up until we sold the house just a few years ago. Her Kitchen Aide dishwasher lasted at least 25-27 years and she always hated the second one - thought it seemed cheap compared to the original.
Do fondue pots count?? Mine is from the '70s and works fine as do my blender and hand held electric mixer (all in glorious gold).
I envy people with older stoves. Most new appliances today are so flimsy and cheaply built compared to decades ago. Too many plastic parts instead of metal.
Up until just recently, I was using a washer and dryer from the late 70s. They worked fine all that time, but then the dryer went out, so we bought new ones.
Refrigerator, dishwasher, and stove are 25 years old, still working well.
We also have a flip flop toaster from 1911, but I lost the cord. So while it technically still works, we cannot use it anymore.
We also have a Magic Chef 1000 stove that is from the same era, but not sure what year. While it technically "works" in that you could hook up gas and make a fire, I am restoring it, so it resides in the garage.
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I have the Sunbeam mixmaster that was my Mom's. It is probably from the mid 50s. works like a charm. I have fond memories of her using it to make cakes when I was growing up.
I also have an old Oster blender from the 60's. My mom and dad used to use it to make Brandy Alexanders at Christmas.
I will never get rid of these unless they totally die. The memories alone make it worth keeping them.
An old GE refrigerator, single-door one with no real freezer, bought for $50 used as a stopgap replacement for one that failed. I am not certain exact vintage, early 50's.
It will probably outlast me. Even though it's older than I am.
Newest appliances are washer/dryer pair from about 2003, and a dishwasher from about 2010.
We just moved into a newly constructed house, so everything is brand new except my refrigerator (8 years old), washer/dryer (11 years) and our garage refrigerator (16 years). I did have a Maytag laundry pair that were 32 years old when I replaced them. They still worked great, just wanted to get rid of that Harvest Gold.
You screwed up bigtime. Those were old Newton, Iowa Maytags, "real Maytags", not the junk built by Whirlpool now and badged as Maytag. That washer, for example, has a belt on the bottom of the machine, easily changed by any reasonably handy owner. Most belts will take a pro most of an hour to change out, or more. They were built like tanks. Whatever you replaced them with, unlikely to be as good, unless maybe Speed Queen.
But, hey, fashion, that Harvest Gold has to get the heave-ho. HGTV and all that. "Dated".
My oldest is my grandma's coffee grinder ca. turn of the last century. It sits on a kitchen shelf with other antique kitchen items. It still works and would probably work another couple of hundred years.
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