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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can look at this a couple of different ways.  I think you have to take a generous view and think he was more concerned with making sure that his money would last his whole life and his wife would not want for anything after he passed than that he was cheap or stingy.  Many older people keep using old appliances that aren't functioning at top performance because using something until it actually dies was just the way things went.  [/quote]

And those appliances will last longer than a new one purchased today, even if not at top performance.[/quote]

Or more. I have an 86 year old vacuum cleaner. I kid you not. It has been passed down through 3 generations. It was a wedding gift to someone now deceased pre WWII. We refer to it as the family heirloom. At this point it has more longevity than any of my relatives now alive. I'd never replace that thing. It's been through wars, so many dogs, multiple generations of my family, a couple of hoses, a replacement cord, a couple of states, a lot of houses. Once upon a time my barely lower middle class family thought it was an extravagant and expensive gift. Now we're prosperous by any measure. Some people like to keep what they have.[/quote]

Hopefully you’ve deep cleaned it, I can only imagine the mold spores it’s harboring if not…[/quote]

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