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I once prevented throwing out a broken electric toothbrush for a year

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[-] flughoernchen@feddit.org 31 points 1 month ago

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...)

[-] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago

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...

[-] flughoernchen@feddit.org 18 points 1 month ago

That's not only perfectly reasonable, it's also the most sustainable thing to do

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

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.