What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?

SOMETHING OLD yet SOMETHING NEW

There is a certain paradox in today’s assignment. “What is the oldest thing that you own that you use daily”?

it took me a little time in pondering this and I have come up with thinking that it’s a little outside the box.

The “oldest“ thing that I use every day is my paper diary. I kept my first diary from the first day of the 1970s school gear. it was a foolscap diary with a page allocated to every day. I kept it faithfully and well and these days look back upon it as being full of enriched memories.

The thing that I write up every day all these years later is my diary. Admittedly, not the first volume but one that has moved on by half a century. I’ve kept a diary in different forms over the years and have often been glad for this ingrained habit. Without going into a lot of details, my diary keeping has been useful in overcoming some challenges in questions that have confronted me years after the events apparently took place.

I have also used my diaries to recall facts for the benefit of others. Without going into detail my keeping the diary helped one fellow Principal avoid action that was being taken against T School and buy the car as a liability against our system by someone with an axe to grind.

◦ Whether it has been at home, travelling within Australia, travelling overseas, or indeed anywhere at all I have always kept a diary. Admittedly, there are one or two glitches here and there and on occasion, abbreviation has been necessary but to this day my diary (habit) is something old but also something I maintain every day.