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RE: Unboxing and First-Use Review, Gardenia GD601 Electric Tiller
I had a grass trimmer of that brand a few years ago. Good for 2 if not a 1. Never again.
I had a grass trimmer of that brand a few years ago. Good for 2 if not a 1. Never again.
It isn't a high-end brand, so it's a total lottery.
Got an electric lawn mower in 2010 and it still works. Not so lucky with other items from the same brand though.
I once had a great one from the Praktiker (home brand) it worked fine. As it finally broke (don't asked the hard work it had to do) they said: what do you want your money back or a new one (I took the money).
Since then, the quality of nearly everything I bought is good for throwing away after one year, if lucky two, but always after the warranty ended.
Happy gardening!
You're right about the quality of.... well, every hardware lately.
With each new thing that enters our home, I am more and more sure all is now designed to last up to the warranty...
That in terms only shows we don't respect ourselves much as human beings as we allow profits to be more important than quality.
Collectively, we have the power to change that but obviously, we lack the desire to do this...
My motto is to use an object until it is impossible to be fixed. I hate the consumerism of our "modern" society.
Thank you :)
Gardening in the spring is awesome, I don't mind sweating in the garden for hours now. Summer... another story :)
I agree with you, everything should be used till it's impossible to be fix and here's another one... the modern items can hardly be fixes because the parts are not available. How can the buyer change that if he's forced to buy new even if it can be repaired? And next the big businesses start registration what their clients buy and count their CO2 whatever while at the same time producing and selling trash and of course trying to sell it.
I did my share of gardening today, it'was a bit of dark day after rain. Let's see if the sun will shine after I finished most of the hard work.
A great evening!
That is true as well.
I had to find a mechanic who makes custom parts to fix the last item that broke.
So, still a bit cheaper than the new stuff, but not if I count the time spent and the transport costs :)))
In the last years I've been fixing more and more stuff myself, this is also good for the brain, keeping it in shape as often out-of-the-box solutions are the only solutions :)))
Same with the house repairs. It's getting harder and harder to find the right persons for the job and it always costs a fortune for every repair.
Have a great evening yourself as well! :)
House repairs I do as much myself. They always try to fool me, same for the car and the job is done badly. Shitty work I can do myself.
The lack of skills will be a huge problem in the nearest future. I always tried to repair things myself. If it's broke I can only win. The first thing I repaired was my record player.😁
So true!!!
It seems there isn't big of a difference in Western and Eastern Europe, feels the same :)
I guess when AI finally overtakes the majority of the soft-skill-jobs, there will be more people who would do quality tasks with their own hands.
I think I am going into that direction, given I double the time I spend in the garden this year :D
Have a great one! :)
The major difference is the price of manual labour services.
A friend from the UK told me he's been quoted for GPB 5,000 for the installation of small home kitchen.
I know some services cost x10 compared to the poorer counties on our continent.
You can't do quality tasks if you don't have the skill, are used someone else is solving the issue. I believe that's what is meant. Before we learned skills form parents, grandparents, today we learn nothing.
I doubt you will find many skilled people in Western Europe. What they ask for now is workers, no longer brains. Not that there are many brains left today, the education is getting worse and worse and if AI takes over soon no one knows how to read, calculate and so on. Analfabetism increases rapidly.
Enjoy the weekend!
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