appliance-repair

Doing the math on whether to fix an old appliance is fairly easy: If the repair cost is more than half the cost of a new appliance, and the item is more than half-way through its useful lifetime, then it's time to buy a new one. No sense in spending money on repairs for a machine that will likely...

It doesn't take a math whiz to figure out that spending $200 to repair a clothes dryer is a better deal than paying $375 for a new one. But the pluses and minuses can quickly clog your brain when trying to decide if the short-term savings is worth it when a few hundred dollars more would get you a...