I'm pretty sure a good part of the increase is just the average quality of durable goods sold new is far worse than it used to be. And for many people, there's

I'm pretty sure a good part of the increase is just the average quality of durable goods sold new is far worse than it used to be. And for many people, there's a resistance to tossing into the trash something which is nearly brand new. Good money was spent on that thing, and not everyone is ready to accept they've been fleeced by a new reality of everything sold is now TRASH ON ARRIVAL. So it stays under their roof. Even if it's broken, at least it's not in the landfill, and maybe it still looks like a new thing as it collects dust and wastes precious indoor space. For those cases it's not the hoarders to blame IMO. It's the flood of cheap Chinesium garbage sold new on the shelves of big box stores like Walmart and Amazon. The moment this crap enters the US it belongs in a landfill, you might get a single use of it first.