Cool to read everyone's responses. ;) Our list:
Things we inherited:
- DH has many tools and a table saw from his grandfather in our basement.
- DH has a lamp from his grandparents' home that is ~ 100 years old; a chair that belonged to his great-grandfather. Neither are used daily, but they are in use.
Things we bought new ourselves:
- An Ikea coffee table, two end tables, and a TV stand in 1995. Still use them daily.
- Bedroom furniture, bought with wedding money, in 1998. Also plastic lawn chairs (from a Sears GC!), and an Oster beehive blender.
- Dining room chairs, bought two at a time, for cash, in 1994.
- A coffee grinder, bought with graduation money, in 1990.
- And the winner: A kitty condo, bought for my now-gone tuxedoed tom cat Zappa - in 1988.