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Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture by alant on Saturday March 17, 2018 @10:51AM (#16607199)
Buy less stuff but nicer stuff. And fixing them instead of throwing them away if they’re broken. If you can’t fix it you never owned it.
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Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture by johnchristopher on Saturday March 17, 2018 @10:58AM (#16607237)
> If you can’t fix it you never owned it.

That's what I am going to tell the people I'll be keeping stuff from next time I fix something at my local repair café.

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Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture by lostlogin on Saturday March 17, 2018 @12:44PM (#16607746)
Exclusions apply. Garage door opening mechanisisms, pull chords for starting petrol powered tools, window blind slats, really old plumbing that is cast iron or lead. I’m sure there are more but I won’t be touching those things again.
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Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture by mrcsparker on Sunday March 18, 2018 @12:42PM (#16612774)
Garage doors in general are a pain. I have installed and repaired a few and that is one thing that I pay someone else to do now.

I don’t find it fun to tinker with a garage door at all.

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Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture by fjsolwmv on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:55PM (#16609747)
The nicer stuff companies sold their brand name to junk companies.
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