And so it begins...

The apartment has been purged of dead appliances.

My toaster was an invitation to buy breadlike substances.    I am better off without it.
My printer has been poked, prodded, software uninstalled and reinstalled, it's still dead.      It was taking up space and returning nothing.
The DVD player worked for a little over a year, now it can't move past "loading".     I hate to discard a gift from Mom, but it's dead.

That's enough dead electronics for a while, methinks   8)