I agree with that, mixture, and in fact practice what I preach; I tend to buy good quality items that I then keep for their economic working life but sometimes my needs change and I need to replace them sooner. If the item is a computer, the HDD is physically taken apart (the last one as an educational process for my then four year old twins who were fascinated by the contents) and the platters destroyed. An SSD would be put in the bonfire if I couldn't find an educational or fun way of destroying it!
