Originally Posted by
AZORCH
It's hard to imagine, but there was a time before "planned obsolescence" made it easy to simply "toss and replace." I don't think my dad ever threw anything away until he had soldered it, glued it, duct taped it, twisted it, recycled it into something new, and then retrofitted it back on to the original gadget.
agreed, my old man would even stop to pick up semi truck innertubes to make rubberbands. he has several lifetime supplies