Comments on: Dear CREDO Mobile, I like your packaging, but please fix my phone — or let me do it.

By: Anne Rainy Woods

Anne Rainy Woods — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:48:09 +0000

@Christine, by this measure I don’t own anything

By: Christine Boschen Ghodrati

Christine Boschen Ghodrati — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:48:09 +0000

@Anne, I know! And I barely eat anything that isn’t somehow wrapped or transported in plastic. We’ve got our work cut out for ourselves to make some big changes, and fast!

By: Christine Boschen Ghodrati

Christine Boschen Ghodrati — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:48:08 +0000

Thank you Beth–if you can’t fix it, you don’t own it. Food for thought!

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:57:03 +0000

I have had my phone sent in for repairs 2x and got a loaner phone for the duration. It was a while ago (2 cell phone back) but I thought it was a great promo. The last two never did break (although one did escape by jumping out of my coat pocket…never to be seen again.)

This is with Telus in Canada.

By: Elise Cheval

Elise Cheval — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:38:15 +0000

I fix a lot of my things. As a needle arts buff, my greatest accomplishment is troubleshooting and fixing my sewing machine when it goes on the fritz. So, or do
I mean SEW? When my foot pedal went kaput, and I had a deadline to get one of my recycled plastic dresses finished in time for the runway show I entered, I went for the screwdriver and flashlight, rather than the gas pedal in my car and the time to run down to the repair store. (Time is a precious resource when you’re under the gun!). That being said, at first I felt like Alice, squeezing through the keyhole, as I carefully with intrepidation removed the first screw from the housing that held all the bells and whistles in place. Investigation was in order, in this new metallic realm of exsistence, especially when it means that success can be the decider of my fate of getting into a show or not. As I peered into the shiny abyss, I saw the problem! Years of pushing the pedal to the medal had worked a tint screw loose and the flat piece of copper that literally held all of the power was out of touch with the metallic contact. A simple reorienting of the plate and a few turns in a clockwise direction, and I was back on track and off to the races, with a successful finish and acceptance of my piece! Thank you Beth for all you do for Mother Earth and her inhabitants.

By: Reenie

Reenie — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:16:53 +0000

Love this topic and all the comments! I duct taped a large crack in a dustpan recently. For my car, I purchased a tube of white paint and a sanding block for a total cost of $3 and touched up dozens of rust spots; now the 94 Mazda looks so much better. I use the Zip It drain declogger for friends’ and my cleaning customers slow draining drains. It’s a great tool; nontoxic, cost $3.

By: Margery

Margery — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:07:32 +0000

I’m so proud of myself that I repaired almost every window screen in my house (accumulated from 15 years of cat, hail, kid, and shovel handle damage.) I looked up videos on YouTube and found that it was actually quite simple. It was much cheaper than replacing.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:02:15 +0000

You can send you BlackBerry in to be repaired as well (or get replacement parts sent to you).

By: Carol Cotter

Carol Cotter — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:17:27 +0000

We fix almost everything that breaks around our house. I have good mechanical aptitude though. we will buy items at the thrift store for our lives that serve a need and most time I can find a made in America (that’s important to us) and usually repairable. amazingly, so many things cannot be fixed. the plastic parts are unrepairable or unable to find the replacement of it. as long as the consumer is willing to accept the “planned obsolescence” product. it will be a mainstay. I saw this trend for 25 years now, since I learned the concept. it affects my purchases of new and used items. my suggestion is have the quality of an item in mind when purchasing- the luxury of being able to buy a better/repairable item has proven to pay off in the long run for me.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:36:54 +0000

We are fixers.I had to beg my husband once to let the dryer go to dryer heaven, he kept it alive for about 30 years.
This week I repaired the barbecue cover which was ripped.today I hope to replace the zipper on our plastic greenhouse.
We don’t have a lot of gadgets though(no cell phone, ipod etc) and we do try to buy well made appliances.