My garage is already full of 'spares' that my wife would love to have me toss out.

rent a storage unit

or just admit you need a 12 steps program for spring cleaning...

I think that is probably the answer.

Set it out on the curb. A guy down in FL might be driving by and will pick it up!

I don't want to give the neighbors ideas.

I have a box in the basement with tools and appliances that are wonky or outright broken. I keep thinking I'll come across a switch or other part and voila it's fixed. Yes my parents lived thru the Depression. As a kid if we left a fingers worth of milk in a glass we caught a lecture.

We were told the old Navy adage: Take all you want but eat all you take.

We don't have basements here in CA. If we did, I'm sure mine would be way too full of 'stuff' to be of much use to me.

Sell the accessories if they won't fit your new one. We have the same one, but in black, that has peeling buttons too though they still work. For now.

We have spent nearly $100 in the last year on a new bowl and that razor sharp chopper blade - you could have made me a deal!

Part of me wonders if the whole top face couldn't be replaced with an "on-off-pulse" toggle switch. Nobody uses the "dough" thingy, right? I wonder if that could be done without being a kludge.

And throwing stuff out sucks. Nothing should ever wear out, darnit!

you could also build a trebuchet and use it as a launch vehicle for the Cuisinart

that would "add value"

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If you replace, get a model without those membrane switches..

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I have one that I inherited with simple manual switches, that is at least 40 years old..

Already did that Tim. Ordered it from Macy's. Wife had some 'free money' from them and they gave us another $40 off it for some reason or other. I'm not sure why.

Baz, I scanned down the responses and didn't see you had already posted! You got me!

The "recycling" thing is funny with the SO.....

Her: "I found these great sheet pans at Home Goods. They were so cheap, I just couldn't pass them up!"

Me: "But we have sheet pans, different sizes. They look good to me."

Her: "But these are better. They have a "Copper Coating", regularly $235 each but i got them for $15. You can use the old ones for your barbecuing and grilling. Here, you can take them outside and put them with your other stuff."

2 WEEKS LATER.....

Me: "Hey Babe, just got back from Home Depot. They had a killer deal on Vise Grips! Such a great deal, I picked up 2 and had this old pair in the garage that you can use on the stove instead of me having to buy a new knob"

Her: (Look of disgust ).

Now that is funny!

My dad would have taken it apart and fixed the buttons. I would wish that I'd do that but just stick it in a corner somewhere for years.

My dad would have too. Heck, I would have if I could have found parts for it, but the only things I could find were the attachments. I think they knew they had a bad design there and decided rather than support it further they'd just let it go. Helps sell new ones, but, at least they went back to a more robust system. I'll give them credit there.

in my yoot, I would have scrounged around and found two more machines that were broken and then tried to piece together one good one from the mess.
And then I'd save all the left over parts. Just in case.

I don't do that no more, scaled way down and simplified. It's much better this way.

Disclaimer - I'm an engineer :) - so I take broken things apart and fix them.

We had a garage door remote that the most frequently pushed button stopped functioning. I took it apart - and found the rubber nipple for that button on the membrane was broken. I super-glued a small piece of plastic in it's place, reassembled the remote and it works fine now.

Sorry guys, I'm not gonna dumpster dive my own trash can and pull it out just to take it apart.
I'm not, really, I'm not gonna do it, no matter what you all say.