Comments on: What happened to stuff that lasts? https://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/2013/01/15/what-happened-to-stuff-that-lasts/ Mon, 09 Feb 2015 05:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Author Steve Hanson https://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/2013/01/15/what-happened-to-stuff-that-lasts/comment-page-1/#comment-4228 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 05:34:20 +0000 http://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/?p=993#comment-4228 In reply to Robert-Lloyd Morris.

Thanks for the comment. I think you made an interesting point about taking “pride in your creation.” Maybe if we all tried to do that a bit more, fewer things would break.

]]> By: Robert-Lloyd Morris https://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/2013/01/15/what-happened-to-stuff-that-lasts/comment-page-1/#comment-4209 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:36:09 +0000 http://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/?p=993#comment-4209 First time posting on this or any site. I have been writing a class paper on modern quality, and so have been thinking much on this topic. Sadly I have no answers just a lot of frustration. I buy a $100 mouse that only last a few months, $200 headphones that last about the same, and do not get me started on clothes how they last weeks if I am lucky… I still have toys from my youth that are fully functional. Why is it that the more technological we become as a society the more we seem to fall back on a “throw away” economy? I feel that we can do much better than this as a nation. Go back to the life time warranty. I say this not because it should be cheep to replace, but because we have such pride in our creation that it rarely or never brakes in the first place… I want to buy something that lasts, something that I can say go to them for they really know how to make something right.

]]> By: Author Steve Hanson https://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/2013/01/15/what-happened-to-stuff-that-lasts/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:19:08 +0000 http://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/?p=993#comment-80 I think the most surprising thing about all of this is that people just accept that things break now. I don’t understand why we don’t demand durable goods.

]]> By: Simon https://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/2013/01/15/what-happened-to-stuff-that-lasts/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:53:35 +0000 http://www.glowwordbooks.com/blog/?p=993#comment-79 To be fair, your all-natural pine tree broke down so much that it literally fell apart :)

I know what you mean though. When I was a kid my dad would ask me, whenever I wanted to buy something, if it would be “durable.” He wanted to make sure I was buying toys that would last. Nowadays I don’t know of very many things, from toys to appliances, that would fall under that definition :(

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