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The Real Bev[_2_]

On 04/23/2018 06:59 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 00:16:39 UTC+1, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 4/23/18 4:32 PM, John-Del wrote:

Fast forward to three years ago and the computer on the Litton
started getting wonky. I finally retired it and bought an
Emerson, that lasted a year.

You're doing it wrong, for the past 15 years, every microwave I've
bought was $10-15 at a thrift store.

Everyone I've bought is still working.

An excellent ROI.

The upside to that approach is that the ones that died young are
weeded out. The downside is there's often something wrong with them
or they'll annoying in some odd way.

My mom didn't want one, so we forced a yard-sale microwave on her -- if
she didn't like it she could give or throw it away. She, of course,
loved it until it stopped working. Hubby took it apart and found a
dried mouse deep inside -- it must have gotten in during factory
assembly, there was no other way. He removed it and did something else,
and it worked fine.

To her credit, she continued to use it until her boss gave her a new one
for Xmas. Women were tougher in those days.

The cheap ($90?) Panasonic we bought at Costco in 2012 is still working
fine.

--
Cheers, Bev
"I don't trust carry-out food. When you find hair in my cooking
you don't hafta worry about where it came from!" -- Dinette Set