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New dryer vs fixing my 15 year old one. I kept the old one.
My Kenmore dryer started squealing like crazy two weeks ago. Looked up new ones. Cheapest decent model was $650 with tax. Spent $18 on a new drum roller kit and an hour of my time. Found a video on YouTube that walked me through the whole thing. Runs quieter than it did when it was new. Anyone else fix a major appliance for pocket change?
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elliotl241mo agoMost Upvoted
Right, the "pocket change" thing really hits home. It's crazy how we've been trained to just toss stuff and buy new. I did the same thing with my washing machine last year. It was a basic model, maybe 12 years old, and it started leaking from the bottom. Looked up the part online, it was a little rubber hose that cracked. Cost me like $4 and 15 minutes with a screwdriver and a pair of pliers. Now it runs fine, and the best part is I know exactly how it works. If something else goes wrong, I feel like I can probably fix that too. It's like a weird sense of freedom.
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brookepark1mo ago
That "weird sense of freedom" thing you said really hit me. That's exactly it. I fixed my dishwasher last month. It wouldn't drain. Looked up the part online, it was a little check valve for $8. Took me maybe 20 minutes to swap it out. Now I know that machine inside and out. Feels good not to panic when something breaks. My neighbor just threw out a perfectly good fridge because the ice maker stopped working. I told him he could fix it for like $15 but he didn't believe me. Ended up buying a brand new one. Just feels wasteful when you know how simple some of this stuff is.
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