Mums museum mixer
My Mum has a trusty reliable "Kenwood Chef" food mixer. It's big and noisy, I swear the house rumbles when it's in use, and I can remember her having it all my life. I'm in my early 30's now so it's been around a long time. In fact I've a horrible feeling her Mum gave it to her.

It still works perfectly though!

Last year we were having a wander around the local museum which rather bizarrely has a display of old kitchen appliances over the ages, literally 1920's washing machines, cookers from the 50's that sort of thing.

Then my Mum says something I didn't expect to hear.... "That's newer than my one!".

That's right, on display in a museum was a newer version of the food mixer my Mum uses at home. I think when it finally dies we will actually donate it to the museum!
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 10:20, 5 replies)

there's something very disturbing
about seeing "your" stuff in museums.
I've seen cameras, TV's, videorecorders, furniture, and assorted kitchen appliances, all identical models to ones I've owned in the past.
It makes you feel very old.
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 13:07, closed)

There's a Grimlock Transformer in the dinosaurs bit of Natural History Museum
I always stop by to look at it, despite having three myself
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:25, closed)

My mum's still got hers!

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:32, closed)

Yup, my mum still has her Kenwood mixer
it must be 30 y/o
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:00, closed)

I didn't inherit (sobs)
I remember the day we bought my Mum's Kenwood: 13th April 1971. Dad and I drove to RAF Rheindahlen, where there was a big tax free shop for BAOR and RAFG (ask your grandparents). The Kenwood was Mum's 41st birthday present, and it was still going strong when she died 2 years ago. It came with some amazing attachments: potato peeler, liquidiser, sausage machine, mincer etc.

That was when I got my first watch, for my 11th. 25 jewel self winding Kienzle with date. God I miss that watch.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 10:55, closed)