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The Hidden Economics of a Throwaway Appliance Culture: Why Repair Is Quietly Beating Replace in 2026

7+ hour, 15+ min ago  (334+ words) The result is a quiet but meaningful shift in household economics. After roughly fifteen years of a culture that treated appliances as semi-disposable, repair is making a comeback, not because of nostalgia, but because the math has changed. For years,…...