Not still true but maybe in the 1990s an article said all of us had parents who still had the old reserve refrigerators and other appliances in their basements that still worked fine but were many years old now and used for reserve but the grown children could of course use them again as their new model ones broke down, once again, each one lasting a few short years.
Childhood memory of that was my grandmother’s old toaster. Our modern one broke and hers in the attic was fine as always. It actually had a manually opened door on the left and right which you had to pull down to get the finished toast each time. Before popup ones. Amazed me as a kid. The toast was perfect.
I asked my uncle (a thrift shop enthusiast) to find me a 1960s popcorn popper about 10 years ago. He did and it still works great. Coconut oil + sea salt…delicious. I do not understand why people do microwave popcorn.