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These days, Americans are more inclined to patch up household products like vacuum cleaners, blenders and mowers rather than junking them.

This wave of frugality is increasing call volume to customer help lines, prompting some companies to boost their call-center staffing and offer more online tutorials on fixing and maintaining household machinery.

This is good to know: Manualsonline.com has thousands of owner’s manuals available for download.

More information at WSJ.com

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