How Old Is Your Ordinary Product?

Looking for the oldest continually produced consumer good

On a work happy hour Zoom from back in the pandemic time, my wife had to find the oldest thing in our house, for a little game. She grabbed our Vornado blender from the early 1960s (a company about which I wrote a piece: it is related to both the Vornado fan brand and the real-estate investment trust.) Later, I realized that the oldest thing in our hous…