Around here, there seems to be at least one small business in every city that maintains and repairs super automatic espresso machines. It's definetly possible

Around here, there seems to be at least one small business in every city that maintains and repairs super automatic espresso machines. It's definetly possible to get white goods repaired, and as with many things it's probably surprisingly economical to do it -- how else would the repair shops survive -- but you'd have to look at statistics. Now I feel a little bad scrapping our broken washing machine. Computers still get repaired, though with laptops it's less easy I guess. Printers, too. If you count software-only repairs (and why not), those are pretty frequent. Furniture and upholstery gets restored, though from what I know this is expensive enough that you'd only do it to very high quality stuff, not an Ikea cupboard that didn't survive moving. Or maybe you would? Ikea stuff is cheap but it ain't free. Still not a long list, but it does get longer the more time you think about it.