One man’s
rubbish is another man’s treasure... you never know what valuables you might
have lurking around your home. You can find all sorts of gems in car boot sales
and charity shops as people don’t always realise what is now vintage, antique
or has come back into fashion again. Old household gadgets are definitely a
prime example of this.
Household
items easily become outdated, so we upgrade to a newer product. The old version
is thrown away to be replaced with the new. Even if it’s still in working
order, why would you hang onto something when you can have a newer, sleeker and
more technologically advanced version; consumption at its finest. Once deemed “crummy”
objects in the light of new technology are often chucked out and so become
increasingly rare. A BBC News picture slideshow of ‘the household gadgets of yesterday’ features images of an aluminium hairdryer with a wooden handle, a
1960’s dishwasher, a 1927 monitor-top fridge and a home computer released in
1980. These items now look positively vintage and trendy; thus highlighting the
fact that we should hang on to old goods for when they swing back into style
again.

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