Nutcase nadin resumes her storyline about appliances not working. She thought of it as something she could post without burning up the servers at the google:
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-29-11 08:36 PM
Original message
One of the things that is wrong with how our economy works
Close to thirty years ago I walked into Woolworth's (went away over ten years ago), and bought a fancy looking espresso \ cappuccino maker from Salton. Yep, I saved to buy that 25 dollar machine, which back then was a lot of money. I made 3.35 \ hour flipping burgers at the college cafeteria.
But I wanted and I liked lattes and even then they were expensive. So getting this little machine made sense... I just used it to make myself a soy latte. It still works... it's been a few decades.
My clothes washer, which I bought new in 2008... yes the friday after Thanksgiving.. and yes Sears was empty, which was not a good sign... well it is more expensive to fix it than to replace it.
We have a coin operated machine outside. We are just tempted to stop playing the game. We fixed the plumbing. that needed to be done. But I am tempted to just use the coin operated machine OUTSIDE and NOT replace the washer. This designed obsolescence will NOT stop, at least IMHO, until we say ENOUGH. Just as I intend to use the computer I am typing on right now until it dies, and I have no choice but to replace it. (It's a Mac, I suspect I have some life left in it)
But, but if we do not consume we will not get jobs... let's revise that... we used to have other types of jobs that no longer exist in the US... you know the repairmen... and things were designed to last a good long service life. The logic is... well if I can sell you ten, instead of two and keep fixing them.... for the primary producers that is a good logic, for the rest of us it is not. Nor is this good for the environment either. On those grounds alone this will need to stop, sooner or later.
In the meantime enjoying the latte produced by the old coffee maker, that was not designed to fail ten seconds after it's guarantee ran.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1387949 Did they really have such a moonbat thing as a "soy latte" thirty years ago?
So nutcase bought a washing machine that needed to a repair after only three years. There's more to that story, later.
Over the past thirty years I've bought many, many appliances, machines, electronic doodads of one kind or another. Maybe hundreds. I have had not one that I was dissatisfied with, literally, not a single one. Maybe I'm just lucky. But at the DUmp, everyone guys stuff that falls apart immediately. Could it be that they're not...smart enough...to use these things properly. And yes, I know...
fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-29-11 08:42 PM
Response to Original message
1. Consumers are being hosed
not only are manufacturers using slave labor to make products, but the products themselves are made from the cheapest possible materials. People think they are getting bargains, but what they are really getting is suckered into buying crap and then having to replace it a couple months later.
I have a 14 cu.ft. upright freezer in my garage right now with about four and a half deer in it. I bought it in 1973, for $139, and it's run every minute since then, except for a few hours each summer when I defrost it.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-29-11 08:45 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. And my choices, apartment living and all
are not that large. Though the repairman suggested, if we had the space, which we do not... a regular sized LG... as he put it, LG used to be crap. Their model now is to make quality products... like what we used to.
Our space is small, so we need a really small machine... and those there are like three models between all makers.
So, know-it-all nadin in her little Stalinist apartment has to use one of those Barbie washing machines. All that heavy khaki and Carhartt stuff she wears was just too much for a Barbie washing machine.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-29-11 09:02 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. The apartment has quarter operated machines
outside... so I have that choice... yes, I need to go out, but... I suspect it is also cheaper electricity wise.
It's really...criminal...that a superior being like nutcase nadinbrzhzhzhzski...has...to live in a crappy little apartment...beside a roaring freeway in San Diego. And yes, I know, she did...give us the address. What is wrong with this sick country? Just remember, nutcase, Pam Dawson was nearly killed by a runaway car the only time she ever used a laundry mat.
