Fix What You Got

Give new hope to an old and broken thing by fixing it. You'll also be thwarting dastardly manufacturers who cunningly build obsolescence (like total battery failure) into new things to make us buy their 'new and improved' models over and over again. Go on, fix your old thing, wipe the smile off their cunning faces and make them gnash their teeth like second-hand threshing machines.

• Two poetically-named sites, howtofixyourstuff.com and howtomendit.com, tell you how to fix and mend things - aren't you glad we explained that.
• Or use one of these step-by-step fix-it guides for all your household fixing needs.
• You can even fix something nice for someone out of those old bits you've got laying around the house. Check out Instructables or Make magazine for inspiration.

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Here's a thing...the combined weight of the 100 million fridges, TVs, computers, mobile phones and other such things that British people throw away every year is around 1 million tonnes. That's the same as 2,400 jumbo jets. We should fix that.