I wish I had a boatload of old appliances! Those will be the only ones worth fixing when TSHTF.
We didn’t realize how chinzy things were getting or we wouldn’t have gotten rid of the old one. Hubby had already fixed it a few times over the years. The online schematics nowadays really helps with ordering parts.
Skills like our guys have will surely be more handy than gold when bad times come.
Over the years I can’t even imagine how much money we’ve saved by the guys knowing how to do things. Our 3 boys have also inherited some of those fix-it genes. They each have an area or two that they are more proficient in.