We have enough booty in our flea markets, garage sales, landfills, junkyards, automobile junkyards to last us five years if the Chinese cut off all trade tomorrow. Matter of fact I wish they would cut us off for five years to force us to be self-sufficient and fix things instead of chucking them. Fellow Americans would be put to work instead of Chinese hordes making and exporting cheap stuffs and craps to us
Whenever possible, I ALWAYS fix things rather than replace them. You learn how they work, which is fun.
Lol! A couple years back, I boght this ancient Sunbeam Hedge trimmer thing, electric powered. I wanted it more for it’s antique type status than trimming any hedges or whatever.
But I started taking it apart - whoa!! TWO DAYS because of all these spacers and ring type things and springs and gizmos.
The grease - well, at some century in the past it might have been grease, was now like solid flint rock or something.
It had this brilliant but simple cam design to it.
Cleaned it up, resharpened the blades, put it back together and I think I used it all but twice in about 3 years.
But I did it! And I got it.
And I could do it again if I had to.
;-)
Use it up, wear it out,
Make due or due without.