oldest thing
 

ok kids, today in the neverending quest for truth, justice and the American... oh wait.. sorrry.. thats the "other" persona

today in the neverending quest for totally useless info...

what is the oldest thing in your closet? ( not counting your weird old Uncle Harold that no one really talks about )

I've got a sweater that is about 24-25 years old ( I've known mrs. G for 14 ) ok it's got a few holes and thin spots (unlike me) but it's just getting comfy. Mrs G tends to think on the other hand that I should, and I quote, "throw that moth eaten rag away"
:neutral:

so again.. you kids got anything that can measure up to my prized sweater ( that would be jumper to you Brits ) :rolleyes:

The oldest thing in my closet is probably my very own self...

all these years, and you haven't found the courage to come out yet.. shame...

I came out of my closet, found myself in fucking Narnia. Again.

My oldest thing is my closet.
I have two wardrobes in my room about the same age as me.
My parents bought them when they moved in here.

I have no old clothes as my size has chanhed dramatically over the years.
I do have a two pairs of stacked wedges that predate my marriage though, so that's 14-15 years ago at least.

"fucking narnia" is that a slightly different version than the C.S. Lewis Naria?

hate to think what the lion and the witch get up to.

It's when Mr Tumnus arrives that things really get interesting.




...and y'know...Mr and Mrs Beaver....obviously.

*LMAO*

The funniest!

I have an 18 year old sweater - it's green and I bought it in the men's dept. and I truly love it. There are a few holes but I still wear it.

I also have a pair of shoes that are about 20 years old. Bjorn makes them to last, baby.

I've got a circa 1986 leather jacket in the closet... You never know when I'll be the prop man for an '80s mockumentary. Do I have any bids?

I've got a hand made wool shirt from my hippie days, it's circa 1979-1980.

ok... if I've got this right we've got two sweaters, a wool shirt , a leather jacket and a pair of shoes ( wedges )

if we can find a pair of trousers we're ready to hit the town. ( on the coldest of nights )

Sundae's already too hot. Need to ditch the jacket :p

My retired anvil was made in 1908. I might take it out of the closet and use it for a decoration...but for now, there's no room.

Dead Hobo. My first, circa 1982.

I don't have many really old things. I had to be pretty ruthless about stuff when I was moving into my teeny tiny hobbit house.

Best I can do is my bedside table. It's actually not a table, but my bed is quite low down, so it kind of works. It's a stool. Very plain looking, rectangular wooden top, made from cut down planks of wood from a packing crate (tea I think) with sturdy legs from some long dead piece of furniture, twisted slightly in an almost spindle style.

It was Nan's. My Grandad made it for her when she was pregnant with their first kid (late 1930s). It was so she had something she could sit on to do some of the household tasks like peeling potatoes or shelling peas, or separating off metal caps from whatever it was they were connected to, which she did as piece work for extra cash.

I have a college sweatshirt that has the actual name of the college I went to, as opposed to a the name that changed just before graduation.

I have my high school graduation class tee shirt (has the names of everyone in the class on it).

I ditched, er, donated a lot of the "collection" when I last moved, when I got rid of some aged 1980s painters pants and color block sweaters.

Does Mr. Tiger, my childhood stuffed animal count?

I have a Terry Crisp Flyers jersey, which dates from the mid-seventies. It's lasted so long because it's made from some synthetic which will never biodegrade.

I have an oil painting, painted by my grandmother in the 1970's. I have a crocheted hanger by the very same person too.

Hot as your hat and twice as sensitive
(only really works in countries where circumcisn is not the norm)

I have a Dennis the Menace sweater that has to be 25 years old. I wear it when I'm cold and sick.

a few other things from that era too, that I don't wear any more. But I'm a pack rat.

I have a pair of green Adidas hemp sneakers that I think are circa 1980-83 or so. I know I am at least the third owner of them, perhaps more. They have fantastic arch support and are extremely flexible, neither of which are true of modern adidas. They are almost completely fallen apart by now, but I use them as lab shoes. I act like it's because it doesn't matter if I spill chemicals on them, but really it's because I can't get away with wearing such ratty things at any other time, and I would be very sad if I actually spilled chemicals on them. I have tried for years to find equivalent replacements, and/or to get them repaired/resoled, but no luck.

Off the top of my head, I have a vintage 1973-4 Scooby-Doo Halloween costume. Plastic pants, shirt, and Scoobyface. In the original box.

And several large pieces of flint. No, not Flint! I used to have a flintlock rifle, and made my own flints.

Also some large pieces of lint.

I have a tie from 1982. Probably my oldest clothing still in the closet and not a trunk somewhere.

The oldest thing though, is a Kodak Duaflex 4, from around 1957.

One pair black synthetic tracksuit pants, issued by a certain multinational corporation to pizza delivery drivers around 1990, still doing service in their own right or as a thermal layer beneath other pants in winter.

The wardrobe itself is second hand, looks to be Queen Anne, circa 1910.

I have this sleeping bag, really old, don't remember when, probably from the late 70's. My mom won't let me throw it out. :neutral:

Oh, well if we're gonna include cameras and such in the list...

I have a pretty old camera in my closet. The oldest piece of clothing is a 17 yr old flannel shirt.

I have a few Edmund Scientific jumping (bi-metal) disks from when I was a kid (~1965) and a few other doodads.

After those, the oldest thing is probably a pair of wingtips from ~1982. I still wear them to weddings and funerals.

Good point, the oldest thing I own which is a manufactured object (and not just a rock or something) would probably be an arrowhead.

Well if we're going to include old rocks, there's this in my closet:

oops, sorry you said not just rocks. Never mind.

wait, is this now anything we own, or just stuff in our closet?

yeah, and how is "closet" defined?

wait a sec ... How much stuff do you have in your closet that you don't own? Hmmm

well there's the hobo corpses...

You kill it, you own it.

orly? No licences like deer?

Thought I was in the "Tourist season" thread for a minute there!

A Winchester 1890 made prior to Jan 1st 1899 Do I win?? ;)