Hello Darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again...
My old coffee maker broke yesterday. That sucks. Guess I need to put "really cool coffee maker" on my birthday "wish" list.
On the other hand, I would like to stop drinking coffee. At this moment in time it doesn't seem possible, so keep really cool (a Bunn would be nice)coffee maker on that list ok? (and no, they don't sell that at Walmart)
I don't feel bad about this coffee maker, it was $2 at a garage sale. It lasted a couple of years, so I am not complaining. What I was thinking about this coffee maker was this: back in my father and grandfather's day, they would have torn the thing apart and tried to figure out what is wrong with it, they would have tried to fix it. I'm sitting here thinking about fixing it and I keep coming to the same Boomer conclusion: junk the bastard and get a new one.
I guess back in Dad and Grandpa's day, coffee pots were expensive and it actually cost less to put the time and energy into fixing something like that rather than buying a new one. I live in a disposable society. Way different from Dad and Grandpa's world. I live in a world where items are built to break down and be useless within 5 years. Who the hell calls the TV repairman anymore? Unless I paid over a $1000 for the sucker, I am going to just replace it with whatever I can afford. I have computer printers, scanners, copiers and fax machines sitting in boxes collecting dust and mold because their planned obsolescence time expired on them. I can't bring myself to throw them away though, they cost way too much money when they were new and I never felt I got my money's worth out of them. I have computers sitting around collecting dust for the same reason.
Someday soon I am going to go through all that old crap and do something creative with it, like find a friend with a dumpster and dump it all in there slowly one piece at a time so as not to take up their dumpster space all at once of course.
I don't throw much of anything away. I keep thinking I can use it in a nebulous someday far off from today. I also keep thinking I will get my garage cleaned up so that I can use it too. I can't clean my garage up though, I can't physically do it. My body refuses to lift and tote that bale anymore. So I am at the mercy of the kindness of strangers as Blanche would say. I can go through boxes and sweep the floor. I can even take all those little things that need throwing away, being given to the thrift store or selling at a garage sale and box them up for the dumpster, burn pile, trip to the thrift store or sale. I just can't lift and move all those heavy things anymore.
I'm thinking this dead coffee maker will melt nicely in a fire. All except the metal parts. I'm good with that though. There isn't much metal to it anyway. I'll keep the glass coffee pot part though. I can always use that as something I am sure and besides, it won't melt in the fire and there is only just so much you can ask a friend with a dumpster to let you dump on their dime.
Sounds logical to me anyway.
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