Stuff is made so crappy now that it wears out after five or seven years, especially household appliances.
The generation before mine, my dad’s, fixed everything themselves - because they couldn’t afford to replace expensive appliances.
My dad came off a farm and could fix almost anything and worked on all of our cars saving us a ton of money.
I miss him to this day.
My father in law was like that. He could fix anything with nothing.
We were at their house once and popped a tire on Easter Sunday. We had too long a drive to use the donut spare.
He actually had the right size tire in his barn.
I took us a whole but we managed to mount it to the wheel and off we went.
I enjoy repurposing stuff and occasionally figuring out ways to make stuff work.