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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

MacKasey

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8. Have your electrician friend check it out

Reply to mahina (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 02:11 PM

Jun 2020

Do you have any friends who use to be a Sears repairman

My uncle was, many years ago he would get appliances that people did not want to pay to repair

Get them next to nothing, fix them up and sell to family members

I had a microwave that lasted 25 years, I miss my uncle, he was a thrifty man

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