Your stuff breaks, wears out, loses pieces, or just disappoints you quite often. What do you do with the pair of glasses you sat on or the electric toothbrush that died a month after its warranty's up ...

For more than a year, my kitchen disposal has been broken. After it ground to a halt, I tried to fix it, let friends try to fix it, got the phone number of a handyman who might fix it, then finally, ...