I don't know how it happened but I have become the village tinkerer. Continually people come to asking it I can look at one thing or another. The other day it was a camera. I must admit I like the challenge and I love looking at things but not everything made nowadays is meant to be tinkered with. When I told the guy there was nothing I could do, however, he asked if we could order a new motor. It makes perfect sense with everything else that you would just replace the broken part, right? Try to explain to a guy who spent a month’s wages or half his life's savings just to purchase this camera that it’s just not ‘worth’ fixing a broken camera. Another guy not even a week later came by the house and asked if I could look at his cell phone. Similar case and he was bummed too.

Thing is, when I think about it, what can you really do. You buy cheap you get cheap and you must accept, when it breaks that you just throw it away. It’s dumb but cost efficient; though not environmentally friendly to say the least. Do items that cost more make it worth fixing them and can you even do that. There are some industry giants that go in the red just to sell you a product that they then hope you will later pay them to fix or maintain. Great idea but I don’t think that is going to trickle down to this Kodak camera or he Nokia phone. Though the tinkerer still tinkers the camera is still dead.