I have decided that things that are used daily are not designed for our daily use.  When most of the family is home most days, things get a lot of mileage.  Just two days ago the hinge on the toilet seat decided it had had enough (barely a year into its servitude), tonight the front of the microwave fell off (tiny little plastic hooks holding it on gave up, not even five years old).  We just replaced the face of the control panel on the dishwasher because the handle part had cracked and was causing the control panel to malfunction (maybe six years on the dishwasher). The stove igniter has decided it only likes to light occasionally and definitely not when it is hot (second stove in 15 years), and the washing machine sometimes pretends to have a cycle plus the handle cracked shortly after it came to live with us (fourth washing machine, but not all of them were new and no I am not washing rocks or anything else unusual).  Knock on the sturdy computer table, thankfully the refrigerator and the freezer seem to be made of sterner stuff.  It would seem that maybe we are abusive to our poor home appliances and fixtures (water faucets are challenged by their existence here as well), but truly we are not.  They are used as intended, just by six people, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Maybe we could become product testers…