I'm afraid this is the times we are living in, I have relatives, only in their thirties, who have no idea about anything 'technical'.
If the kettle, toaster, iron etc stops working, do they take the plug off it and check the fuse? - or attempt any kind of repair? - no they drop it in the bin as they are on their way to Argos to spend £60 on a new one for the sake of a 5p fuse.
This isn't just small stuff neither, vacuum cleaners, washing machines and everything else, their philosophy is, 'i plugged it in and it didn't work, we replaced it'...if i say to them 'why didn't you check the fuse or take the back off and see if it was something obvious first?' they usually just reply, 'it's not worth bothering with, we've had it six months and a new one was only £60' - as if they're millionaires - they've not got a pot to p!$$ in