Re:A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automat...
by vianneychevalie on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @10:05AM
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> if you're not gonna do all your own maintenance just forget about it and buy cheap disposable appliances
Besides the physical waste that I can already see accumulating behind this advice that I find quite poor, it also makes no economical sense. I own high quality home appliances and they don't break down, or need replacement. My washing machine is 30 years old and runs once or twice a day.
Don't buy cheap shit would be my advice. If you can't afford a good quality appliance, wait for a couple extra months.
Also if you're not gonna do all your own maintenance just forget about it and buy cheap disposable appliances. Skilled labor is just too expensive these days to do anything else. Also, many commercial operations that are small enough to not be able to do maintenance in house (hotel laundry is a good example) buy a fleet of consumer appliances with the extended warranty and buy more than they need to that when one or two are down at any one time it's a non-issue because doing that is actually cheaper than maintaining commercial equipment.