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kleinbl00  ·  2585 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: They Used To Last 50 Years

You're right. Bad math. .71% per year x 50 years = 35 years.

Here's a 35-year-old fridge.

It looks remarkably like the one my mother-in-law just got rid of.

20 years past the point where it was embarrassingly out of style.