I’m one of those people who perseveres as long as they can, even when it’s pretty clear that it’s time to throw in the towel… This is especially tploy when it comes to financial concerns… I will go months wearing a pair of broken shoes with holes in the soles just to avoid spending cash on a new pair.
I’ve also driven cars well past the point of being safe in order to save myself the stress of shopping for a new vehicle.
This same situation happened last year with my failing Heating as well as A/C system; I just couldn’t let the old piece of device go separate from a long & drawn out fight! For months I was having systematic failures in which my thermostat simply wasn’t producing the desired hot & cold temperatures that I set; One afternoon the heating system would fail & I would spend a few hundred dollars having it patched back up by a heating specialist, only for my AC to fail a few weeks later. I would call out the cooling specialist & they would manage to repair up the old a/c device for a matter of time, only for the old thermostat to stop responding. I would have an electrician come out with the heating & cooling women & rewire the temperature control unit, only for the heating system to fail once more, then and so on, & so on it went. After thousands of dollars wasted on making minor repairs to the problem ridden Heating as well as A/C system it became clear that I needed to bite the bullet & start anew.