I’m one those people who was brought up to respect the value of
things. Put a different way, it’s hard for me to get rid of something
if it still works. I drive my cars until they die. I use my
appliances as long as they still work. Etc.

When I visit friends houses, I am often struck by how new much of
their things seem. Take stoves, for instance. It seems like all the
homeowners I know have stoves that are less than 15 years old, and
they have all these crazy features that mine doesn’t have. Mine must
be 40 years old or so. It’s very simple. It’s a gas range, my
biggest complaint about it is that it’s hard to adjust the flame
without having it go out. But, it works, I cook on it happily, and I
just don’t think that spending $500 on a new stove would bring me $500
of happiness. So, I don’t.

Refrigerator, same thing. I’m sure there are other examples, but
really, that’s not the point here. The point is: why is everyone
using such old toilets?

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