r/SurvivingOnSS

Last month, my toaster started acting up. My first instinct was to add it to a list of things to eventually replace. Then I remembered an old trick: Sometimes a stuck lever just needs a careful cleaning. Twenty minutes and a cotton swab later, it worked again. We've been trained to replace before we repair, but a lot of small fixes are within reach if we slow down enough to try. YouTube has become my unexpected handyman.

What's something you fixed yourself recently that you would have once tossed or paid someone else to handle?