{"id":19424,"date":"2015-05-06T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=19424"},"modified":"2015-05-06T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:26:14","slug":"how-long-do-things-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/how-long-do-things-last\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW LONG DO THINGS LAST?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Always mark<\/strong><\/span> the date. Here is what I’ve learned from marking dates:<\/p>\n

Jogging shoes last 6 months.<\/p>\n

Bathing suits, 3 years.<\/p>\n

Eyeglasses, 6 years.<\/p>\n

Stoves, 25 years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dishwashers, 18 years (a good dishwasher). [Dang, my 5-year-old KitchenAid — a good brand — is out cold today. Won’t start.]<\/p>\n

Refrigerators — a good one, 25 years. (Frigidaire brand, 10 years.)<\/p>\n

\"how<\/a>Leather gloves from Sam’s Store, Ann Arbor, 2 years.<\/p>\n

Battery for<\/strong><\/span> a Shark vacuum cleaner, 8 months.<\/p>\n

Screw-in fluorescent bulbs. They do not last anywhere near the claimed 5-to-7 years. Try 2 years.<\/p>\n

I had a Hardwick gas stove at a rental property for 36 years. The stove was made in Cleveland, Tennessee, in 1974, junked in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2010. The broiler door fell apart. The stove top still worked.<\/p>\n

P.S. <\/strong>I<\/span><\/span> have information on the “useful life” of condensate pumps, hot water tanks and boilers, too. Spare me, you say. OK.<\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/p>\n

Irwin Weinberger and I play at Gigi’s<\/a> on Fairmount, Cleveland Heights, 7-9 p.m. next Wed.,May 13. Be there! We’ll play jazz standards and some klezmer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"IR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Always mark the date. Here is what I’ve learned from marking dates: Jogging shoes last 6 months. Bathing suits, 3 years. Eyeglasses, 6 years. Stoves, 25 years. Dishwashers, 18 years (a good dishwasher). [Dang, my 5-year-old KitchenAid — a good brand — is out cold today. Won’t start.] Refrigerators — a good one, 25 years. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19424"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23139,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424\/revisions\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}