i don’t remember exactly when we bought this pitcher but i know it’s at least 10 years old. i can still see sky blue paint splatters on its exterior from when we painted our condo. the pitcher still works but perhaps not quite as well as it used to. (unfortunately, the new one works about the same but at least it’s a bit more useful in size and shape. and the lcd display on the new one doesn’t work like it should but that’s not a big deal to me. so, really, the new one is not much better than the old one and i just fed into the capitalist machine of replacing a perfectly good item with one that’s newer but of lesser quality…or something like that.)