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They literally make things now days to last a max of 2 years so you have to buy more. We think we are so technologically advanced, but we are being played for fools.

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planned obsolescence.

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It's weird that this planned obsolescence has been major since the late 2000's.

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It has been a massive thing since the end of WWII. It has existed in many different ways, the biggest incarnation of it is simply 'style'. Clothes are only now meant to be worn for a single season, atleast ideally by the manufacturers. This rapid change in fashion was the reason that people in the 70s, 80s and 90s all look distinctly different. It was an intentional choice by the fashion industry to create more demand for clothing from the same supply. If i walked around in my fathers clothes from when he was the same age as i am now i'd look like a tit. Same happened with cars, each year for the first few models they would change the color. Almost nothing different other than the color, and that ensured that everybody knew you were driving an older model.

another good example is apple. Every year the same product with small changes that 'REVOLUTIONIZE' the game, except its generally the same camera, call and browse the internet.

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But the new fridge will have energy savings, protecting the environment for the next 2 years before it breaks.

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slightly offsetting a fraction of the waste produced in its manufacture before it breaks.

For a 2 year lifespan, it's better to keep an old fridge running for those 2 years if you care about the environment.

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Remember when kids would suffocate inside refrigerators playing around? Practically a safe/vault.

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I imagine my food would keep for more than a week if my fridge was that good.

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This only happened with fridges which had a locking mechanism with a haandle. They stopped making those. Those were fridges from around the 50s at latest.

My grandma had one in her basement. She put soda and beer in it for company since everyone would congregate at her house during holidays. She died in 2016. It still worked.

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I want to find one. Funny how the old junk becomes cool in a few decades.

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You're buying Chinese junk today that you weren't buying 40 years ago.

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This. Maytag is still made in USA. Even Samsung is at least made in Korea.

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You're lucky if a new microwave lasts 2 years

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Really? I’ve had the same microwave for 20+ years now. Was thinking of replacing it because it doesn’t match my other appliances-but now I think I’ll stick with it.

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This reminds me Of my Aunts dryer. I mentioned it to her when I was at her house. It looks all best to hell. The paint is completely gone off the top from the years and years of friction. I told her it was beautiful to see something work and keep working. It’s so frustrating spending money on things to have them break shortly after

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Not only that the new ones don't dry for shit. I usually have to dry 120 minutes for what used to be a 45 minutes with the old ones. Wish we had tried harder to repair what we had instead of replacing it.

Hindsight.

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Parents have a freezer in the basement of their second house that still works. And fuck me if it doesn't power itself and keep food frozen even when the electricity goes down.

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It has long been held by the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, that at a certain point in a long-running appliances lifespan, it transcends it's earthly limits and gains the ability to tap into the limitless inter-stitial energy potential field that exists within the borders between the universes. They become as like unto a god, unconcerned by earthly matters like electricity. Deus In Machina.

Unlike Ork "col' boxez" that continue to work in spite of their crude construction simply because they believe that they will.

(or it could just be that they used really good design and insulation to minimize energy loss. It's really either or.)

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Chest freezers with door on the top instead of the front are super efficient like that. Since cold air sinks and there are no door seals or 'weak points' for the cold to leak out near the bottom, the compressor rarely needs to come on even if you do open the top.

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And fuck me if it doesn't power itself and keep food frozen even when the electricity goes down.

Do you call it Christine?

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Afterward I do and it reads me a bedtime story.

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"I am boomer fridge! Come at me bruh!" We have a over 20yr old Amana that works great, easy to clean and lots of room. Bought it for $350 used. Guess they didn't like a White.

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My Great-Aunt Betsy's 1946 model Frigidaire refrigerator (bought for her by my Great-Uncle Garret when he came home and they married right after the war) is still running ice cold despite never having received any maintenance in living memory.

Example pic: https://files.catbox.moe/9wgh6c.jpg

The people that produced these wonders of modern White Western civilization were the same ones who had just been producing aircraft that they knew men's lives would depend on on those same production lines just the year before. Excellence in workmanship is a habit.

Update: Out of sheer curiosity I went looking and found out that a reconditioned 1946 model Frigidaire refrigerator like my Great-Aunt Betsy's would set you back $3,500 today.

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Born in the 70s makes it a Gen X appliance.

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Apparently the worst brand is Samsung according to technicians.

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I had a samsung that died like 2 months after the warranty expired. Would not recommend.

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Thus- the wifi. Update it like Elon and Apple to fail via wireless updates. Fucking rats.

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I don't remember if it had wifi, but I do explicitly avoid buying major appliances that have wifi.

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Lg is also garbage

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I agree its way worse than Samsung.

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Word I got was that Samsung fridges are fine, but anything with moving parts (washing machine/dishwasher etc) is absolute shit.

Had no problems from the Samsung fridge (did NOT get the ice in the door, which was a requirement that drove us towards Samsung in the first place) but did Maytag for the other stuff.

Got an old Magic Chef (Maytag) oven of unknown age because it came with the house. Digital clock, but all of the functions are old fashioned analog dials. Keeps fantastic stable heat, and is bang-on temp wise once I calibrated it according to the manual. Had to replace an element in one of the ovens, but was able to do it myself with a $40 part.

Made in the USA might not mean as much as it once did, but it still means a lot.

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I've got one of those old yellow fridges that started out life as off-white. It was in my house when I bought the house. It looked ancient. I debated with myself then whether to dump it and buy a new fridge, but decided to keep it since it was working. It's still working 13 years later. It was an antique when I bought the place and it's 13 years later. A few years ago it started making funny noises. Bumps and thumps. And it goes right on working.

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Harvest Gold. Avocado Green (st.hzcdn.com) was also popular around the same time.

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That's the one that your wife is actively rooting for it to die because she's redoing the kitchen. So it ends up out back in the workshop as a dedicated beer fridge. Where it then outlives the next three fridges she gets for the kitchen.

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American manufacturers made the welds on the compressors and coils to last, and if the coils are kept clean and they aren't moved often, they stick around. Eventually they're good for shootin', or makin' worm beds.

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Idiana Jones jumped in one to survive a nuclear blast

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I live in a house built in the late 70s. One of air conditioning units is original and we've never had a problem with it. The other one is 5 yeara old or so and has needed soooo much work over the years. It's ridiculous!

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I recently replaced a door release lever in a microwave from 2006. The part is made of some type of hard plastic. The business end of this part is much smaller that the rest of the part. It has to withstand a considerable amount of tension. If this part were made of some type of metal, I would have not had to replace it.

The replacement part was only $3 (shipped), but most people wouldn't bother finding the part and opening the microwave. They would have just went to walmart and picked the cheapest microwave on the shelf.

https://files.catbox.moe/86328z.jpg Red circle is the fulcrum for the lever.

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I would have crafted a replacement.

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Carved out of the bones of your ancestors.

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So I could eat leftovers. (I prefer air poppers for popcorn.)

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