A 15 Year Old Salad Spinner Made Me Think

As my husband was putting away the dishes last night, he fondly held out the salad spinner he brought into the marriage and said something quite uncommon about a pretty common household object...

"I've had this salad spinner for 15 years."

No big deal, right? But it made me think. How many objects can we say that about? Haven't we accepted the notion that all consumer products are planned in advance for obsolescence? Isn't that part of the unwritten contract most of us enter into with manufacturers?

In contrast to our Zyliss salad spinner, I now have 6 printers in my barn that within a year of purchase just stopped working for no good reason.  They linger in ecological purgatory as I wait for some kind of salvation...something better than the landfill. So the question I pose in this blog is simple, "what are the products that were made to last and have?"

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