Sears: Recycling

Appareillons en grand sans ménagement !

They don't look too bad, do they?

Nice one D... recycling or just throwing away when one is bored of the old and is wanting something new..?

Recycling old ones in back of an appliance store, I suppose they didn't work anymore and people bought new ones. I think people with more money than I have get bored with their appliances and want new ones. Thanks, Peter!

Love the tag -- is Sears recycling itself, also ?

Who knows, these days?

I'm certain that in 9 times out of 10, they have simply ceased to be! Built-in obsolescence is a modern-day curse!
I hear that in France it is about to be made illegal! Unfortunately this is the same country that believes it can conserve its language in aspic!

Lol! Interesting point about language. Anyway, I'm not sure how obsolescence can be made illegal, but I wish them luck. I think the cost of repairing things is just as much a problem. I remember people getting things (almost everything!) repaired, not running out to buy a new one. For quite awhile, it's been more cost effective to buy something new if repairing the old one will cost 60% to 100% of the cost of a new one. For small appliances, it's hard to find anyone to repair them at all. It's interesting that in African countries, everything is repaired!

It's why DIY shops (hardware stores to you) are having such a hard time. When I was a kid, everyone's dad repaired everything and had the tools to do so. Now it's cheaper to buy a Chinese made replacement! Uh-oh! I'll be sounding like the Orange one soon, heaven forbid!

Haha - oh, we've all been complaining about that long before the fool came along to start a trade war.

- just a note --- repairing things, my Dad could fix anything .. period. Mr C's Dad -- could also fix anything ... it skipped a generation .. our son can 'almost' fix anything. As a teen, we had a garage with no car in it because he fixed lawnmowers (the classic one was a neighbor put his 'broken' mower at the curb to get picked up by the city)- our son asked if he could have it. "Sure, said the neighbor .. I'm just tired of it not working and taking it to the repair shop."
So, dear son brings it home - fixes the mower .. it is running fine. Takes it back over to the neighbor who told son, "no, I don't want it back - but would like it if you would mow my lawn."
- think our son had more lawnmower parts than a parts store !