Electronic Gremlins

In November, our 5 year old Panasonic HD ready flat screen TV wouldn't turn on. So we lost our main television in our family room through Christmas, until my mom was gracious and generous to purchase us a new one. A week after that, our computer was infected by a debilitating virus that required some serious doctoring to get it back up and running. Then after Christmas, our coffee maker fritzed out, and we had to get a new one of those. Then, this past weekend, our 3 year old washer stopped working. The internet is a wonderful and scary place. I found out that our washer is equiped with a lint trap (didn't know that) and it was full of GUNK! I have no idea how a pair of underware, a AA battery, a pencil, and change got in, since our machine is a front loader machine, and how anything can get around the gasket, is beyond me. But, once it was all cleaned, I guess the rush of water through the filter and into the pump (which has been laboring pumping the water out of the washer, because of all the GUNK in the filter) burned out the pump. So, now a repair man will be arriving tomorrow to look at our 3 year old washer. But the other stuff I read about our particular washer, all the unhappy people out there with the same one as us, and the terrible problems they've all head, just scare the dickens out of me! I'm grateful I haven't had those problems, but I'm fearful of the problems we could have in the future. I'm about done with the electronic items in our house, the ones that should last us 10-20 years, failing us as this time. Is nothing dependable anymore??