What Appliance Repairmen Buy for Their Own Homes

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ If your refrigerator gives you ice and water through the door, that little panel is the single most likely thing in your kitchen to break, and the man who comes to fix it will charge you two or three hundred dollars, then drive home to a fridge that doesn't have one. The people who fix appliances for a living don't buy what you buy. They buy the boring one at the end of the row. Our grandmothers bought one of each and kept it for life. In this one I'll walk you through what appliance repairmen actually buy for their own homes, one machine at a time: 🧾 Why they skip the extended warranty, and why they buy the cheap countertop microwave 🍽️ The plain dishwasher (and the filter that saves a service call), and the dryer with a knob (and the vent that matters more than the dryer) 🔥 Coil burners and knobs on the stove, and the plain top-freezer fridge with no ice in the door 🔧 The boring brand you can get parts for tomorrow, and why nobody who fixes these has a Wi-Fi fridge …and number one, the washing machine: the cheap answer, the expensive answer, and which one I'd pick. A machine that lasts twenty years only gets sold once. Ask your repairman what's in his house, buy that, and keep your money right where it belongs. If saving money and a house that runs right sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 What's the oldest appliance still running in your house? Tell me down in the comments. #frugalliving #savemoney #appliances #buyitforlife #homemaintenance #applianceRepair #builttolast #homemaking #householdtips