I once prevented throwing out a broken electric toothbrush for a year
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I currently have a non-functioning coffee machine and a broken kitchen scale right beside me. (Like, literally broken, I keep finding acrylic glass fragments…)
What if you’re currently using a working coffee machine that’s the same model of the broken one, keeping it ‘just in case’ the other one breaks ‘in a different way’ and you now have the part? Umm, asking for a friend…
That’s not only perfectly reasonable, it’s also the most sustainable thing to do
I tried that once. Turns out they made some small changes between the different version of the same model and the parts didn’t quite fit. I don’t keep things around for spare parts anymore.
Just swap the broken parts an you end up with two working coffee machines for your friend!
With a few mods you should be able to get a functioning kitchen coffee scale machine
Nooo don’t give me ideas!
I threw things out once. Then I needed it.
Now I just never throw it out in case I’ll ever need it.
I was raised by hoarders. I was the only one who ever did any cleaning. I was the only one in the house who knew how to operate the washing machines and vacuum cleaner at age 10. I made huge efforts sometimes to keep the place clean and organized, which turned into huge dramas as my parents used the new clean space as a reason to fight and be victims, until they would bring more shit in and leave it piled on top of the old shit.
To this day, if I could live in a blank, white box with nothing else at all, it would be heaven.
