Why don't things last like they used to

[jean2579]

About 38 years ago I paid $150 for a Simpson clothes dryer. It has had several belts replaced and now the timer switch has gone. :_|It should have lasted longer than that. Not impressed.:-(

[latina4621]

I think you have done pretty well considering.

BTTT, we bought a flat screen tv 2 years ago  and it doesn't work anymore

things are made to be disposable these days.

[nicnacs_4u]

Huh??

38 years is a good innings..new one`s these days you would be lucky to get 10 years!!

[channys_mum]

Nothing like a little tongue in cheek humour :^O

[j*oono]

Touch wood but I love my Simpsons dryer too.  It was a fairly cheap one and it has a dial rather than a silly computer.  It doesn't fry clothes like my old F and P one did.  I've only had it for a couple of years but if it lasts for 38 then I will probably be gone before the dryer.

[latina4621]

we went though a few of those set top boxes ,

[cherry*135]

I had a F&P Clothes dryer for 30 years and nothing went wrong with it. I replaced it with a bigger one with a sensor.

I put it out on the kerb for council roadside pick-up and some dweeb cut the cord off (they do that to get the copper wire out). I was hoping someone who needed one would take it.

[lady*em]

:^O

38 years?  I'd be writing a sternly worded letter to the company. They just don't make things to last any more do they?

[icyfroth]

It's an economy thing.

The consumer has to keep buying things to keep it going.

[*notatroll]

Yes, it's an economy thing. It's called "planned obsolescence" where a product or a key component of that product has a life-span which has been deliberately incorporated into its' design.