Check for a recall if it breaks

Excellent idea: Last time our DVD player broke, I went out and bought a new one. The Best Buy salesman said he wasn’t surprised that it had only worked for a year; he called them “disposable.” Two years later, the new one is broken. But this time, instead of going shopping, my husband had an idea. “Check online for recalls,” he told me. I don’t know what gave him the hunch. Maybe it was that time a few years back when our microwave started sparking like crazy and we found out (after severa
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