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Saturday, September 26, 2026Est. 2026. Most of what's in here is older.

Don't fix it if it ain't broke

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No. 0077Laundry room

c. 1992

Hotpoint clothes dryer

Hotpoint

Running about 34 years

Came free with the first house, never repaired

Twenty-six years married and never bought a dryer. This Hotpoint came free with the couple's first home and has been drying their clothes for 25 years. It has never needed a repair. It's belt-driven, which its owner finds hard to believe given how long it has lasted. The lint trap gets cleaned out regularly, to keep the fire risk down.

Retold from a post on r/Frugal. Read the original

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