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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
These toasters were made to last, I'm sure, which is something we don't see anymore in mass-produced appliances, or anything else, for that matter. As I mentioned in a previous post, my grandmother had a toaster like the one being discussed here. It lasted years, if not decades, and may well have been working even after she died in 1985; this speaks volumes for the manner in which appliances were built in the 1920s to about the 1960s. We wll never see this kind of quality again, as I am about to explain.
I had a Sharp microwave for 20 years; it finally gave up last month, but I wasn't disappointed when it quit. It gave me excellent service in that time (I bought it new when I moved to my apartment in 1999), which again speaks volumes for how things were built until everything was being made in Japan and elsewhere in the Orient.
However, when my Sharp microwave finally quit (it began throwing sparks near the end, and I saw a bit of smoke in the cavity as well the last time I used it), I bought a Black and Decker microwave, which works very well--for now, anyway. I do not expect the new one to last anywhere nearly as long as the old one did, given the cheap and often slipshod way many if not most appliances are built nowadays; however, what can you do?
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I rarely buy anything modern anymore minus video. I use a 1959 Frigidaire fridge, a early 1980s maytag washer and a 1935 maytag washer. Unsure how old my microwave is but its old. Old wood stoves, chairs, cars, trucks, phones, fans. My house was built in 1878. I jjust cant see wasting money on new things that wont last so I buy old and most will outlast me. The fridge my parents bought new and it was used for years, then was outside under cover for a few years at a campsite, then in a barn until I dug it out to use it again. Try that with anything newer. We made good stuff in this country and a few others. Now its all junk. Sad