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I've become a master at fixing stuff. When things break around our place, everyone puts them in my shed for me to fix. If they're beyond repair, some of the bits often get used. I might have been an Indian in a past life.

Of course, it's us western countries that are the most profligate. One of the things I noticed most when I went to India at the end of 08 was that things got used, and reused, then broken, and fixed, and reused. Even plastic bags got used dozens of times. A bit of rope? It would have dozens of...

Yep, my big plastic Bushranger canoe is going to last a fair while. I bought it second hand and it looks like it has already had a hard life. But it still floats. Those things were made for hire fleets, I suspect. Lots of my tools are old. And some of the stuff in the kitchen. But I admit I...