How do we end up with a whitegoods cemetery in the first place?
So much has to do with advertising. We are seduced into believing life will be so much easier, faster, cheaper and healthier if we bake our own bread and make fresh juice every morning.
In the perfect world this would be great. But we don’t live in a perfect world.
The reality is that once you get the juicer and breadmaker home, you don’t have someone to make the juice or bake the bread, you’re doing all the work and cleaning up afterwards. Fiddly, time-consuming gadgets lose their shine very quickly.
Cleaning pulp out of the mesh of the juicer can take ages and bread is eaten in most households daily, so that’s a lot of baking to be done. For most families, the one thing they don’t have a lot of is time, so anything that creates more work, gets relegated to the back of the cupboard.
Hence, the beginning of the whitegoods cemetery!… Read the rest
