Totally resonated with this post! Kudos to your success in extending the life of your old dryer by tinkering around with it! That was the approach during our childhood - things that broke down were fixed or re-purposed, clothes were often home sewn and their life-cycle extended by darning, patching and hemming up or letting down as needed. For clothing had the almost supernatural quality of becoming hand-me-downs or hand-me-ups (to the chagrin of the next wearer in line who secretly wished for something new but usually got an older sibling's or cousin's outfit).
LOVED your post, Fei! We have become such a throwaway society around the globe, especially the developed and developing nations, it's totally frightening and sickening. Great that you managed to repair your previous hair dryer. To be on the safe side, I would just keep it for personal use and not give it away. My big peeve is garbage that people toss around everywhere and from anywhere including moving vehicles.
Oh man, you would be happy to know that my partner picks up electronics off the street to fix for fun. He's fixed ~15 TVs in the past 18months! It is nuts how many fixable broken electronics we find on the streets of SF!
Also, my partner shared a thing about recyclable packaging that I found surprising and annoying, which is that because cardboard packaging doesn't protect the products as well during shipping, they need to increase the size of the box and amount of cardboard, which then adds weight and increases box size, which then means fewer product can be shipped per container, which ultimately consumes more fossil fuels getting to the consumer >_<. A case for more locally sourced and produced products.
Totally resonated with this post! Kudos to your success in extending the life of your old dryer by tinkering around with it! That was the approach during our childhood - things that broke down were fixed or re-purposed, clothes were often home sewn and their life-cycle extended by darning, patching and hemming up or letting down as needed. For clothing had the almost supernatural quality of becoming hand-me-downs or hand-me-ups (to the chagrin of the next wearer in line who secretly wished for something new but usually got an older sibling's or cousin's outfit).
LOVED your post, Fei! We have become such a throwaway society around the globe, especially the developed and developing nations, it's totally frightening and sickening. Great that you managed to repair your previous hair dryer. To be on the safe side, I would just keep it for personal use and not give it away. My big peeve is garbage that people toss around everywhere and from anywhere including moving vehicles.
Definitely. I would only give it away to someone who knew the history and was ok to take a chance on it ;)
Oh man, you would be happy to know that my partner picks up electronics off the street to fix for fun. He's fixed ~15 TVs in the past 18months! It is nuts how many fixable broken electronics we find on the streets of SF!
Also, my partner shared a thing about recyclable packaging that I found surprising and annoying, which is that because cardboard packaging doesn't protect the products as well during shipping, they need to increase the size of the box and amount of cardboard, which then adds weight and increases box size, which then means fewer product can be shipped per container, which ultimately consumes more fossil fuels getting to the consumer >_<. A case for more locally sourced and produced products.