Another appliance dead...

One of the challenges of living with my bunch is the way they seem to kill off appliances, it's hard to understand what exactly they do to cause these early demises but where we really seem to have an issue is when it comes to espresso machines. We are on our third machine in the past two years and the usual method of death is not something simple like a carafe being broken, important parts either disappear or the steam attachment needed for frothing ends up being snapped off. I need a Samonsite type espresso machine that takes a licking and keeps on brewing...