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URY914 07-21-2008 05:24 PM
I have a pair of underwear that is 19 years old.

RANDY P 07-21-2008 05:26 PM
I still wear shirts from 18 years ago (for working on cars that is)

Z-man 07-21-2008 05:37 PM
Wayne:
I share your sentiment. I still have my Casio scientific calculator I bought in college -- 23 years ago. Use it at work almost daily. What a ride that number adding machine has been through...

Thanks for the post -- brings back memories...

-Z-man.

TerryH 07-21-2008 05:43 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by URY914 (Post 4074453)
I have a pair of underwear that is 19 years old.
Probably time to change them then.

RANDY P 07-21-2008 05:44 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Z-man (Post 4074474)
Wayne:
I share your sentiment. I still have my Casio scientific calculator I bought in college -- 23 years ago. Use it at work almost daily. What a ride that number adding machine has been through...

Thanks for the post -- brings back memories...

-Z-man.

Z who? Am I seeing a ghost? Who's this guy? :)

trekkor 07-21-2008 06:30 PM
On a medium sized bathroom project, I'll go through a box of 5,000 in less than a day!



KT

campbellcj 07-21-2008 06:50 PM
Classic. In my desk drawer here I have a box of 5,000 staples from FEDCO ($0.83). They were even made in the USA (are new staples still made here, I dunno?)

Mule 07-21-2008 07:36 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts (Post 4074446)
As a freshman in college, I bought a box of staples for my stapler. 18 years later, that box has almost run out. What an interesting ride it's been for one lowly box of staples. I never thought buying this box, that I would still have it 18 years later. I'm not sure what my point was, but I found it interesting today.

-Wayne
If you can figure a way to make gas last 18 years!!!:D

That book will out sell all the others!:)

Aerkuld 07-21-2008 07:37 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mule (Post 4074726)
If you can figure a way to make gas last 18 years!!!:D

That book will out sell all the others!:)
I've had gas for much longer than 18 years.

stomachmonkey 07-21-2008 08:20 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Z-man (Post 4074474)
Wayne:
I share your sentiment. I still have my Casio scientific calculator I bought in college -- 23 years ago. Use it at work almost daily. What a ride that number adding machine has been through...

Thanks for the post -- brings back memories...

-Z-man.
Still use HP everyday, also bought ~23 years ago.

Love that thing.

HardDrive 07-21-2008 08:44 PM
Ah, my liver.

I remember back when I was a youth. I've given it quite the work out over the years. Amazing its lasted this long.

Evans, Marv 07-21-2008 09:08 PM
I had a little box of wood toothpicks that lasted 20 years. Just used them up a couple of months ago. The price on the box said 35 cents.

rusnak 07-21-2008 10:51 PM
man, it's weird that I identify with this. I have the same model HP Business Consultant II calculator that I was using 17 years ago when Microsoft came out with MS DOS 4.0 and Windows 2.0. But rather than let the calculator die, I have been going on Craigslist and buying up identical backup calculators, sort of my way of staying in the '80s I guess...eeek!

I also still use the same style Pentel Superball pens, yellow stickies, same coffeemaker....

island911 07-21-2008 11:12 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by trekkor (Post 4074573)
On a medium sized bathroom project, I'll go through a box of 5,000 in less than a day!



KT
staples, or Underwear?

M.D. Holloway 07-22-2008 12:16 AM
I still have a box of 3 ring paper protector rings so the holes don't rip. They were a pain to use when I was in Jr high but for some unknown reson they have withstood the test of time. 27 moves and they have stuck with me. I feel obligated to keep them with me until I die - prehaps they shall be buried with me...

red-beard 07-22-2008 02:55 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by stomachmonkey (Post 4074793)
Still use HP everyday, also bought ~23 years ago.

Love that thing.
+1 RPN, and also 23 yrs ago...

widgeon13 07-22-2008 02:57 AM
good thing it was the staples and not a box of condoms:D

Flyer88 07-22-2008 03:05 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by trekkor (Post 4074573)
On a medium sized bathroom project, I'll go through a box of 5,000 in less than a day!



KT
Underwear?

allaircooled 07-22-2008 04:24 AM
Quote:
I still have a box of 3 ring paper protector rings so the holes don't rip.
Paper *********s?

dad911 07-22-2008 04:48 AM
I have a cardboard box from an external SCSI harddrive, which cost north of $1000(over 20 years ago). Drive long gone, The box still useful holding x-mas ornaments. I call it my $1000 box.


Put something valuable in the staple box. Extend it's life. I get it.


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