Americans Used to Repair Everything Themselves. So Why Do We Throw It All Away Now?

Your grandparents darned their socks, fixed their own radios and worked on their own cars. Today, most of us throw broken things away. What changed? This video tells the rise and fall of repair in America: feed-sack dresses in the Great Depression, scrap drives in World War II, the TV repairman who came to your door, and the forces that made fixing things cost more than replacing them. Then comes the twist: why repair is quietly coming back. #AmericanHistory #RightToRepair #PlannedObsolescence #Frugal