Go farther. Add relish and you have thousand island dressing.

Which fridge?

Also, when it comes to refrigerators there have been such advancements in efficiency that even 3-5 years you'll still save money on a new one. Which is my focus in BIFL, buy it good once or cheap over and over.

Other way around, this is what consumers demand. People have become less cost tolerant. They will buy crap if it's a buck cheaper. Companies that make long lasting stuff go out of business because no one buys their more expensive products. The rhetoric of planned obsolescence is blaming the wrong people.

Yes, but there are degrees. I have LED bulbs 5 years and counting. 1-2 years is bad.

That sounds like your house has dirty power. Semiconductors like LEDs don't like that.

One-up-manship. Special rank is above merely A rank.

That phrase was originally coined spoken towards the fabulously wealthy families of the early 1900s, who had enough money to buy the world, but kept screwing people for more. It was an admonishment that more money won't make you happy, so why not help your fellow man? It has been perverted in to the opposite meaning. Now it is said to poor people that they shouldn't demand fairness in life because you can't just go out and buy happiness. Yes, but try being happy without money, without food on the table or accessible medicine.