I hate that everything seems disposable now. I got a message saying parts may no longer be available for our printer soon and so we need to check out HPs discounts on a new printer. This thing is not that old. I know some of it is a marketing thing to get you to buy the "latest and greatest" so they can make money but it's also that we are way too much of a consumerist society.

My late grandfather died in 2009 and had the same stove/oven he bought in the 60s because it was actually cheaper to repair it. He worked on equipment at a well known outfit up there in RI, the name of which escapes me right now. Similar to Lockheed Martin but that wasn't it. Anyway, in the Navy during WW2 he was a radio repairman and was able to keep his old school console TV. refrigerator, stove/oven, etc., working. Now it's cheaper to replace something because parts may not be available anymore.

My husband is running into the same issue with our side business. Septic systems that are pushing 20 years old and over are getting increasingly difficult to find the electronic parts because they're just not around anymore. We can only find pumps locally, everything else is from Amazon, if they have it, because nothing is available anywhere else.

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