My cellphone is that device for me, but recently these are starting to near end of their lives; headphones, keyboard, mouse

fridge was like that. while I was on my trip last winter, roommate called about it

got us a new fridge and new stove.

The toaster. The bit where you press down to lower the bread is broken, with only a tiny bit of plastic from it left. It has been in that condition for 2 years now and we still haven't replaced it.

We don't do toast so often. Maybe once every few months, so I guess this is the reason for the cba

I basically just keep things until they simply up and don't work anymore. lol which is probably not the way to do it, but eh.

Not appliances, but underwear and bras.

Used to do that with shoes, and then shoe goo them back together. But with running shoes, if you don't replace them when the foam dies, it's painful.

Cell phone, currently neither audio jack nor ear piece works. Bluetooth or speaker phone, otherwise I hear nothing. Been that way for.. probably close to a year, by now.

Oh, and only the right side of my Bluetooth headphones actually works.

Ive put off replacing my mobile phone for a couple years lol

We also had the no-handle toaster. Finally replaced it last year. It was about 10 years old.

I bought new shoes this year. first time since... 2008 or 2009

I hear you about the mobile phone though. It took my Nokia to completely die before I switched to a smartphone. I still that Samsung now, it's incredibly old S3

my sis held onto her flip phone when her wall charger died. she'd drive her car around to charge it.

then tell me that buying a new phone when that one still worked was "wasteful"

(she came to visit and I found that her phone used microusb)

she finally grudgingly gave it up when the hinge broke

Not so much me but my fave story is from my dad. One of his co-workers had an old pre-remote TV with the mechanical tuning dials. One broke and he had a vise grip pliers attached to change the channel.

I'd guess it resembled this.

Omg, we had a tv like that when I was little. We had a good tv in the living room but the one in the back room, we kept pliers to change the channel too.

Found this on the same page.

Every printer ever. When they run out of ink I just go without until eventually I just give up and buy a new one. It's usually cheaper than new cartridges.

SuzeKavanagh: pliers were a permanent fixture of my living room growing up.

the plastic that those knobs were made of wasn't very durable, and the force required for a channel change was significant.