“Had our old Kenmore washing machine for 25 years.”
our old Kenmore washer and dryer of about that same age are still going strong too, though i did have to make major repairs to each myself:
i replaced the MoBo on the dryer due to bad chinese capacitors, the same caps that entered into USA electronics at the time by the billions, including a whole generation of HP PCs ...
in the case of the dryer, a little online business would swap the old MoBo with a refurbed one that had been re-capped with good caps for a very reasonable fee ...
the washer uses a six-solenoid flow-control assembly that had gone bad, and i replaced it with a new one that cost $125.00 ...
I have an LG refrigerator that I had hooked up to WiFi because it gives alerts if something is amiss, like the door staying open too long. BUT, I noticed food started thawing in the freezer and discovered that WiFi somehow was changing the temperature, no doubt to “save” energy somewhere along the way. Once I cut that invisible cord, my fridge, thankfully, has been running smoothly.