We use a 98-year-old vacuum cleaner — it’s also a food processor, veggie peeler, drill and more
NY Post
If it ain’t broke, don’t replace it.
An elderly couple has used the same, century-old appliance to drill, vacuum, mince meet, process food, peel vegetables and grind coffee since their wedding day in 1976 — and it has yet to give out.
Mary and Ivor Waite, from Halesowen, West Midlands, swear by their 98-year-old Piccolo, a piece of German-made machinery manufactured between 1925 and 1930 for use in cramped housing, which they received as a present from Ivor’s aunt.
“It had been in storage for god knows how long in my auntie’s cottage before she gave it to us in 1976,” Ivor, 73, told Southwest News Service.
The couple, who won an award in 2013 for the oldest working appliance in Midlands’ Black Country, use the centenarian technology as a mincer or a vacuum to clean the car, occasionally polishing the floor with it as well.
“It’s pretty amazing that you can use it as a mincer, liquidizer, a food mixer, a juicer, a slicer and even polish the floors with it,” he said.
