The front finally fell off my mother's ancient oven door and I had to physically destroy it so she that would not surreptitiously crochet it back together and use the thing for another decade. Please to tell me your stories about sabotaging a pathologically frugal parent.
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My moms aunt had a 1960s fridge that couldn’t even freeze things and held onto it until 2010. She’d always complain about how much she loved ice cream but it was a shame she couldn’t keep it!
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When my great-aunt died (c 2005), my family tried to donate her 60-year-old fridge and nobody would take it. Charity orgs told us that the energy efficiency gap is so high that giving old fridges to poor families is essentially stealing from them
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My parents dryer was unbalanced for a while, they had multiple detergent bottles strategically placed on top to keep it from rattling and shaking it to pieces. I took them all off, cut holes in the bottoms and told them to call a repairman.
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I live this life too. The dryer is from the 1970s, but I'm trying to win the oven battle first
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But did you buy her a new one?‽!
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Money has been set aside and waiting for this for five years now, but she has fought delaying actions. I'm not a monster!
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I replaced igniters on mine, they only cost a few bucks and several hours of cursing to figure out how to take the top cover off -- the screws are usually rusted and you have to drill them out. I also reworked the solder on the display unit -- they stopped making it in the aughts
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