Am I the only one............

Strange the relatives we have. My dad was a skip diver, he couldn't pass any skip without ferreting inside to see what he could make use of. I think its a generational thing, a lot of our oldies grew up or lived through the war years of make do and mend. On that subject it broke my heart today to throw away a hardly used older breadmaker that blew the house fuses because of a blown element. We managed to dismantle it and diagnose the fault but couldn't find a source for a spare element which P would have repaired it with. We (except Veggie) live in a throwaway world.