This appears to be correct. The open box of staples that I am working through is not so marked. But the extra box I have, that I’ve never opened yet, does say “#10 mini staples. Use with Tot® 50 Classic Stapler”. On the back of the box it says ACCO Brands, www.swingline.com, a phone number, and part number #79125. Its UPC code is 0-74711-79125-0. So I hope that’s the right stuff.
ETA: Just skimmed through the swingline site linked here, looking at their staplers and related accessories. Note of the staples I saw were marked as being #10 for classic Tot staplers.
Sure, and they still have those here in the US. The “Original Premium” is on the Walmart site for $194, but now there’s a budget model called “Jumbo Joe Premium” for about $80 and it is noticeably less nice in multiple ways.
IME it may not be so long-lasting, because while the dice are OK, the blue plastic cover seems to degrade and the foam that holds the dice tends to crumble over time. You should still be able to play, though, or maybe you can find one in good condition.
Never mind that. You can always find some kind of box to keep the pieces in. The bigger problem is that the set I had was apparently some kind of “beginner” set with a small number of dice (about 10 IIRC) and there just aren’t that many WFFs you can make with that. I and my friend played with this for a while – even as children, we grokked the recursive syntax of WFFs immediately, but quickly got bored with the limited possibilities for the WFFs we could build.
I never got much farther into the game than that, and I suspect that is why.
Moral of the story: Be sure to buy one of the larger sets as your first WFF-n-Proof set with plenty of dice to play with!
LL Bean, at least from years ago. My husband has a pair of LL Bean snow boots that are older than our son (who is 27).
Lands End clothing used to be that way - though I think they’ve gone downhill since Sears bought them. I have several turtleneck sweaters that are well over 20 years old and in excellent condition, ditto a short-sleeved knit sweater. I wanted more of the turtlenecks a couple years ago - and what I got was some ultra-thin lycra blend thing that I do not expect will last me 20 years. Plus they’re clingy as hell, which was not what I was looking for.
Honda cars are up there in reliability. We had our Civic for 22 years before it wanted a repair that was just too much $$. Our CRV is 15+ years old. Having grown up in an era where it was fairly rare for a car to go over 100K miles, we’ve now owned 3 of them (our Mazda 626 bought in 1985), that Civic, and the CRV which has 180,000 miles on it.
Yes to Honda. We’re heading toward 200k miles on our Fit.
I buy most of my new clothes from L.L.Bean (their quality is still excellent, unlike their competitors), and Duluth Trading and Carharrt. You can find great deals on used L.L.Bean clothes, like gorgeous wool sweaters they don’t make any more for example, on ebay and etsy. Vermont Country Store is worth a look. They have excellent flannel sleepware and lots of simple basic clothes (along with a ton of old-fashioned candy).
A good place for simple tools for the homestead is the Amish supply house Lehman’s Hardware.
Might depend on the shape of your feet. They don’t make combination lasts any longer.
Of course, they may not be making boots that last any longer, either. That I don’t know about. If you can find somebody to re-sole and re-stitch your old ones, yeah, I’d keep doing that.
When I bought Miele washer and dryer in Norway almost 10 years ago I was told they were the last European manufacturer to still do their testing and assembly in Germany and the last one likely to actually last a decade. I had no trouble selling the pair for 30% of new value after over 5 years of use. (I could probably have gotten more, but I wanted ease of sale more than a few hundred bucks extra.)
Black & Decker had a good reputation for producing quality power tools for a long time (I had an inexpensive B&D drill that lasted nearly 40 years before conking out). Then they got into various kinds of consumer products, merged with Stanley and apparently drifted away from producing good power tools.
"After countless customer interviews and brand audits, (brand consultant Marc) Hohmann found that many Black + Decker customers were embarrassed by not having a more powerful tool. Instead of amping up the brand, the designers decided to approach the market in a new way. Construction workers would no longer be the target and the goal was to appeal to all kinds of makers. “Black + Decker is not about power and strength,” says Hohmann. “It’s about being clever and innovative.”
Well alrighty then.
There are exceptions, but companies known for long-lasting quality don’t seem to thrive as much as companies producing cheap crap that breaks after relatively brief use (looking at you, Libman).
Is the kindle consider a long lasting product? I was an early adopter and am on my third kindle. None of my kindles had to be replaced, I just upgraded and gave my current, working kindle away to someone who needed one.
My current (#3) kindle was slow/wonky. I was considering buying a new one since I use mine daily. Luckily I did a search for “speeding up a slow kindle” and found a way to do a full reboot. It’s lightning fast again!
I’d say that if the batteries were easy to change, then absolutely. I’m on my 2nd kindle, and the first one I got rid of because the battery was shot- it wouldn’t hold a charge, and a new battery required dismantling the entire thing, and then a new battery that cost 1/2 the price of a brand new Kindle.
We bought one of their free-standing plastic basketball hoops for my grandson when he was a toddler. As he grew older and taller we just raised it up another notch. I think he finally outgrew it around age 10. Other than having to replace the net a couple times, it was still in good shape when we put it out on the curb and someone in the neighborhood scavenged it.
Zippos are great and quite sturdy, but they can break. I had the lid break on one of my custom-engraved Zippos. But Zippo has a life-long warranty and great customer service. All I had to do is to go to their website to get instructions how to have it repaired, shipped it to the US (I’m in Germany) and got it back a few weeks later in pristine condition, without any charge or shipping fees. They really repair your lighter and don’t only replace it, because many (most?) Zippos are very individual.
My Maytag washer is still running along after 26 years without a single repair (and it has always and still cleans - that sounds like the sour grapes type of “fake news”, usually peddled by the competition). My dryer is still working along, but to be fair it needed some new parts.
I’m afraid to replace them with newer ones, because I think “Maytag” might just be a name these days, and not have the same quality. And the machines are too expensive to experiment. Mine better just keep on keepin’ on.
My main mixer is a Sunbeam model 10, circa 1955. Older than I am. Never been apart. (to be fair, I’ve never been apart, either.)
Nearly ever pair of original Levi’s I buy these days have had the belt loops rip out. That used to never happen. I actually had one split right in the main part, not at a seam.
