At one point, in recent times, people became too lazy to fix stuff that breaks. They are even too lazy these days to sharpen a knife, that's why there are knives with replaceable insert blades and automatic knife sharpeners being sold. Have you ever taken a 10 year old string trimmer to the shop where you bought it to be fixed? The labor and parts cost nearly as much as a new trimmer. Folks just buy a new one instead of fixing the old one themselves. These are the times in which we live.
"String trimmer"...do you mean "whipper-snipper"?
