Rob hated throwing things away but now, he had every reason to do so. Now that these items had reached a point that repairing them was no longer an option, they simply did nothing but take up space. After several more years of rinse and repeat however, things had just started getting ridiculous in her own humble opinion. It was true, Chris had been more or less playfully getting on Rob's case about his keeping and fixing his old, junky appliances for longer than the couple had been married. Don't you think it's time to let them go?" "They're rusting and falling apart, dear. The blanket, the toaster, the radio, the lamp." "And that blanket? You've had that since you were a kid too, right?" Heh, my grandparents bought that old kirby from a door to door salesman after my grandpa got back from world war two." "I guess I'm the only guy in the world who keeps his things as long as I have. "I hate to say it, but you might be right, dear." Rob replied as he scratched his head through his thinning, middle aged hair. "Now they don't even make parts for them." "I've been telling you to get rid of those old junky things for years, hon." Rob's wife, Chris said with a shrug, as she leaned against the doorway. Rob was a man who almost never threw anything away but now, he may be left with little choice. Not only was he having difficulty with finding the right belt, his search for a speaker for his old radio, wires for his desk lamp, heating coils for his toaster and a heat control unit for his electric blanket were proving fruitless. Rob had scoured the internet, searched high and low, but still, a belt for his old kirby vacuum cleaner was nowhere to be found.
"Darn it." Rob mumbled under his breath as he scrolled up and down on his computer in search of a belt for his old kirby vacuum cleaner. Much to Rob's frustration, he would learn that even on the world wide web, parts for his favorite old electronics were nowhere to be found no matter how hard he looked.
Parts are no longer made for these models and they are becoming harder and harder to find. That was all well and good for quite some time but a new problem has arisen that they all knew would eventually be inevitable. For all those years, he has repaired them time and time again. Since childhood, he has kept his favorite electric blanket, his desk lamp, vacuum cleaner, radio and his toaster. Some people throw their broken item away and replace it, others, like Rob for example, would rather keep fixing their appliances and putting them back to work. Even in the days of "they don't make them like they used to", the best of appliances will eventually break and become obsolete. It's an old saying that holds true and applies to any tangible object.
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