r/Adulting • u/dyaenerys • 13h ago
My 10 year old coffee maker went into silence.
Goodbye to my 10-year-old coffee maker ☕💔
This morning, my trusty coffee maker finally gave up on me. The light indicator just faded into silence, and somehow, I found myself feeling genuinely sad — more than I expected for a machine.
I bought this coffee maker back in 2016 in Dagupan City, when I was assigned there for work with DSWD. It was one of those small purchases you don't think much about at the time — but looking back, it was there through so much. Early mornings before fieldwork, late nights after long days, quiet moments in between. Every cup it brewed carried a little piece of that chapter of my life.
Ten years. That's a long time for a coffee maker, and an even longer time for memories.
It's funny how objects become witnesses to our lives. It wasn't just a coffee maker — it was a companion through a season I'll always look back on with fondness. Dagupan, DSWD, the people, the places, the version of me that existed back then — all of it somehow tied to this little machine that finally went quiet this morning.
So here's to you, old friend. Thank you for ten years of warm mornings and quiet comfort. You served me well. 🫡☕
Rest easy. You've earned it.
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u/broctordf 9h ago
I have that exact model ( 8 years and counting), and I have fixed it at last 3 times... it's really easy to fix, hop you didn't throw it away.
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u/betodaviola 30m ago
Looks not so different from mine, bought at the Walmart for $6 in 2018. I moved from the Louisiana to northern Ohio last month and brought it with me. It is used daily and when it goes, it'll be the end of an era. I hope you buy something you like. RIP coffee maker
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u/captain_borgue 13h ago edited 13h ago
A few years ago, my old Mr. Coffee gave up the ghost, too. I took it apart on an effort to fix it, and there were a bunch of crappy plastic parts they had cracked and failed.
I hate plastic. Hate it. So I decided that, the next coffee machine I got would have as little plastic as possible.
I ended up finding this glorious industrial bastard used on like Craigslist or something. The guy who sold it to me for a song had mentioned it didn't work- but Bunn's commercial line machines are known to be serviceable, so I bought it, put some new parts in it, and it has faithfully brewed over 2000 pots of coffee flawlessly since.
Sometimes, it's not about the actual thing, it's about the comfort and routine of using that thing. My old coffee machine had been a nuisance I put up with out of necessity- my stainless steel behemoth is an elegant triumph of simple, foolproof design. Water goes in, coffee comes out seconds later. There is a total of one button, and the only thing the button does is turn the hot plate on and off, and I don't even use the hotplate.
I'm not saying this to tell you to go buy one of these.
Rather, I say this because I understand the wistfulness in losing a machine whose sole purpose was a little bit of comfort in your daily routine. It sucks.
But you know what? There are better machines.
The loss is just the first step to getting you a better machine.
Loss, of all kinds, can lead us to pay more attention to our lives, and maybe even motivate us to make a change we've needed to make for a while, that will- eventually- get us to a better mental landscape.
Anyways. Now I'm fiending for coffee- and my machine will have it ready in about 10 seconds. 😍