How much a clothes dryer cost to use? Again ......

It's a strange world out there!

Totally agree. We are are 'on' our second dryer (which 'cost' a dozen beer) in 40+ years. Our second, second hand washer (repaired with the drum/tub from another some five/six years ago) must be 20+ years old now. The cooking stove; can't remember but IIRC it's the third 'free' one we have had. The used dishwasher was a simple fix, one component! Hated to throw out the old one, which still worked but this one does wash better and IS quieter. Neighbour is planning to change out her microwave; I'll be tempted, although we have a couple of spares around now. Thre is a plenitude of free and cheap appliances and other items! Sometimes needing the occasional repair but most of them are pretty simple devices. And stick to white. PS. Haven't had to 'accept' yet any of those stoves with digital display oven timers/thermostats .............. so keeping a couple of the older style thermostats around just in case! haven't 'bought' an appliance for the last 20 years or so. One of thesed days probably be faced with multiple replacements!

OK, here's a good mystery. My stove/oven has a digital clock with a digital timer. The timer justs beeps, it can't be set to turn off the oven. Anyway here is the really weird part. The digital clock TICKS! Sixty ticks/minute! One of these days I'm going to have to open it up just to see it. It is LED display and I certainly don't think it has a mechanical timer running a digital display, so I'm guessing they put a tiny pizo or speaker hooked up to a "tick" circuit. Maybe some old timers didn't like it if they couldn't hear it tick? I've shown it to a few people and they started looking around for where I hid the wind up ticking timer. :-) No. No wind up ticker, a digital ticker.

re: "The digital clock TICKS!"

I often run the clock/scoreboard controller for the basketball games at our schools.

It too has a LCD display yet you can hear it ticking inside the unit.

On top of that, when it drops below one minute and the 10ths of the seconds show up, the ticking increasing 10 fold!