Everything gets old. Everything that’s living eventually dies.
…sorry, didn’t mean to start this on such a down note. But it’s true! And just as we develop wrinkles and gray hair the older we get, the objects we use show their age as well. Let’s delve into the world of stuff that’s getting a little long in the tooth.
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Just one year.
The Queen’s Guards do a lot of marching around, which explains the wear and tear on a pair of their boots after just one year (new on the left, worn on the right).
iPhone users can relate.
This guy’s been carrying around a headphone adapter in his wallet for over a year. It’s clearly taken its toll on the leather.
They still work.
These steps, cut into solid rock, have taken on a warped appearance over the years. That’s understandable, considering they were carved centuries ago.
A lot of ping pong.
The table tennis table at this bar looks plenty worn after twenty years of heavy use, but at least it’s all in one piece.
Salty.
The nut and bolt on the left is far from salt water and salt air. The nut and bolt on the right, installed at the same time, is much closer.
Wait, there’s a rug here?
The rug in this pic (just look at the ground, you’ll see it eventually) is so worn down that it’s barely visible.
So many dings.
The doorbell at this store is a simple affair: the door opens and clangs the bell. You can see quite a few years of bell-clanging in the top of the door.
Rub for good luck.
The foot — well, the stump — on this statue of St. Peter at the Vatican has worn down to almost nothing over the centuries.
Still hanging on.
An IT tech snapped a pic of this (still working) mouse to show just how much the plastic on the bottom has worn down.
I had a car like this.
If you’re lucky enough to get a lot of life out of your car, this might happen: the key becomes so worn down it literally falls out of the ignition sometimes.
An excellent source of staples.
Anyone who’s been through the bar district of a big city has probably seen something like this: posts with decades worth of staples on them.
Circulated vs. uncirculated.
This shows the same amount of money — $100 in singles — after it’s been circulated versus how it starts out.
Trusty clipboard.
Have you ever wondered what a clipboard looks like after doing crossword puzzles on it for three decades? Now you know.
Time for a new link.
It’s easy to see steel as something so strong that it never degrades. But this pic tells a much different story.
Just a bit of blade.
If you sharpen a knife enough times, the blade will eventually dwindle away to nothing. This knife is about halfway there.
Fond memories.
Anyone who owned an OG iPod and didn’t put it in a case probably remembers the back looking like the one on the left.
Well loved.
These two teddy bears have been treated very differently over the years. The one on the left is lucky to still have an attached head.
Butt grooves.
I have no idea how someone sits in a chair so much that it takes on their appearance, but here you go.
Good boy.
The urge to give a pupper a scritch is so strong that people will do it en masse even for a statue dog.
After “four years of daily bonking.”
These hammers are identical, only one is in brand new condition and the other one has been used steadily.
