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Some of my BIFL:

I seem to lose Swiss Army Knives before they wear out or break. On my 3rd or 4th one now and trying to hang on to it.

I still have my Atari 2600 from when I was a kid. And many more cartridges than I had before. The CRT I played it on still works too.

Various tools like vice grips, hammers, corded drills, table saw, and circular saw.

Bare and enameled cast iron pots and pans.

Several tents. The oldest one is a Coleman Oasis canvas tent I used growing up. HUGE tent - 12' at the peak and about 12'x12'.

I don't plan to keep it for life, but I have a wallet from the Buffalo Billfold Company. Bison and very durable. I think mine is the hipster.

More frugal than buy-for-life but: good shoes. Twice the price but they last way longer. It's cheaper in the end.

My Stanley thermos is as good as the day I bought it

My N64 Got it in 99 and it still works

A KitchenAid mixer.

An old one.

Technically, we bought two - from goodwill. We cannibalized them for parts, cleaned and lubed all the machinery and reassembled one functioning Frankenmixer. It's been running with no problems for over fifteen years now - and the parts were from the seventies to begin with!

Boots. Here in the Southern US, boots are very common daily footwear, even for business casual attire. I have two pairs of Lucchesse ropers, one black and one brown. A "roper" has a low, straight heel like a dress shoe rather than a tall angled heel like a more traditional "cowboy" boot. I've probably got 10 years on both pairs and no telling how many times the heels and soles have been replaced. Still look like they just came out of the box. They are also very comfortable if you spend all day on your feet unlike most dress shoes. Lucchesse's are expensive but most high quality footwear is.

My Pet Monster. Got it in 86, passed it down to my daughter and it's still holding up like new almost 40 years later.

A Riccar vacuum. It's only been about five years but so far so good.

I bought a box of bamboo toilet paper almost a year ago and I still haven’t run out. It was only a 24 pack.