I just want to get the word out in all possible ways. My phone is dead. Has been for a week now. Phones just do not like getting wet at all. I am trying very hard to not be furious with myself, you know for being human and making a mistake but that can be a hard pattern to overcome.
I am pretty down about this and also it's now way harder to get hold of me, email is your best bet because it will be a few more days before I get a new one. sigh.
It all seems to be going at once. The oven is dying, it took forever to get it to 350 on Saturday, we have a strange burning smell coming from the dishwasher [we stopped running it] and we already know our ancient washer is on borrowed time.
I may be an appliance whore but this is making me feel pretty overwhelmed with it happening all at once. ah well. At least with the appliances it's mostly age.
and I can't seem to remember to feed those trolls even though I bought the beer... I love the grim yuletide stories though.
Showing posts with label appliances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appliances. Show all posts
appliance buying: a cautionary tale
You may be wondering is she really going to give us another post about appliances? The short answer is 'yes' the long answer would be 'I could probably write a whole blog about appliances' but I won't.
One of the delights about buying the cottage is the need for a couple of appliances. Some of the shopping and needs of the new place are overwhelming but appliances are nothing but a delight. I now realize though that some perfectly nice smart people in the world should not be trusted to buy appliances, some people don't even know there is an appliance color called almond. In fact some of us may be married to such people.
My wife called me from a mammoth estate sale. She felt a bit guilty because she knows how I love to shop for appliances but there were great deals to be found at the sale. She called me so I could participate vicariously. She is such a sweetie. There was a front loader washer. Now the cottage does not have a washer and the one here is limping along. It was only $200, I love front loaders, so I agreed it would be a shame to not get it. There was a new side by side fridge as well and the fridge at the cottage is quite old and rusty. We could limp along with it for awhile but she found such a good deal why not replace it. I agreed that it was probably wise at those cheap prices to snatch it up. I asked what color they were and she said 'white'. I said great and you totally see where this is going...
I looked forward to meeting my new appliances, I was a bit sad to not be there when they were picked out but I told myself sternly to not be a baby. My wife deserves appliance joy too. I ran out to the truck full of anticipation to meet the new members of my family and saw a big honking almond fridge. I pointed this fact out. My wife called it 'kind of off-white'. I noted that would be a good description of the color in the appliance world they call "almond", so would cream. The point is, it isn't white as you can clearly see when the it's laying right beside the white washing machine in the back of the truck.
Now we aren't very matchy people. An almond fridge, though I wouldn't pick one out, is not the end of the world. But it was a shock realizing my own wife doesn't know much about appliance colors. LOL I think I have recovered.
So if appliances are important to you, take heed. Do not assume that all adults know what you may know about appliances and their colors. I am happy to be the horrible example to avoid.
One of the delights about buying the cottage is the need for a couple of appliances. Some of the shopping and needs of the new place are overwhelming but appliances are nothing but a delight. I now realize though that some perfectly nice smart people in the world should not be trusted to buy appliances, some people don't even know there is an appliance color called almond. In fact some of us may be married to such people.
My wife called me from a mammoth estate sale. She felt a bit guilty because she knows how I love to shop for appliances but there were great deals to be found at the sale. She called me so I could participate vicariously. She is such a sweetie. There was a front loader washer. Now the cottage does not have a washer and the one here is limping along. It was only $200, I love front loaders, so I agreed it would be a shame to not get it. There was a new side by side fridge as well and the fridge at the cottage is quite old and rusty. We could limp along with it for awhile but she found such a good deal why not replace it. I agreed that it was probably wise at those cheap prices to snatch it up. I asked what color they were and she said 'white'. I said great and you totally see where this is going...
I looked forward to meeting my new appliances, I was a bit sad to not be there when they were picked out but I told myself sternly to not be a baby. My wife deserves appliance joy too. I ran out to the truck full of anticipation to meet the new members of my family and saw a big honking almond fridge. I pointed this fact out. My wife called it 'kind of off-white'. I noted that would be a good description of the color in the appliance world they call "almond", so would cream. The point is, it isn't white as you can clearly see when the it's laying right beside the white washing machine in the back of the truck.
Now we aren't very matchy people. An almond fridge, though I wouldn't pick one out, is not the end of the world. But it was a shock realizing my own wife doesn't know much about appliance colors. LOL I think I have recovered.
So if appliances are important to you, take heed. Do not assume that all adults know what you may know about appliances and their colors. I am happy to be the horrible example to avoid.
appliance love and goals
I love appliances. If I let myself I would be one of those people who always need the latest electronic/computer gadget as soon as it hits the shelves, you know except with appliances. Unfortunately my tree-hugging frugal part will not let me ditch an old appliance that is working just fine.
[The exception to this is fridges/freezers because the old ones even if they work well use tons and tons of energy to run.]
Anyway I had two goals for this summer, and I have completed them before summer officially starts.
I got a compost bin and started composting. [that can get it's own post at some point]
I bought a freezer. It is brand new and it is beautiful. It's an upright. It has an interior light, which I believe is a first for me in my freezer relationships. It has gleaming new shelves and bins. It has a 'soft' freeze' section that let's you store ice cream at a perfect eating consistency [apparently] I have been without a stand alone freezer since 2003 and I have really missed having one. I decided between the CSA and the garden that this would be the year we really needed a freezer and my wonderful wife agreed with my reasoning.
Once again I can freeze pick your own stuff, or produce other people want to give us. I can make soup stock and save bread crumbs and have a place to put them. I can even stock up on the occasional frozen burrito or meal when on sale for future emergencies. I can cook ahead of time and stow lunches away.
In many ways the freezer has been the best part of the week so far. The rest of it has been a wife traveling for work, physical discomfort and lots of tasks at work that I really don't like. But I feel great about the goals reached. I should make other goals that I can reach. It feels pretty fantastic.
[The exception to this is fridges/freezers because the old ones even if they work well use tons and tons of energy to run.]
Anyway I had two goals for this summer, and I have completed them before summer officially starts.
I got a compost bin and started composting. [that can get it's own post at some point]
I bought a freezer. It is brand new and it is beautiful. It's an upright. It has an interior light, which I believe is a first for me in my freezer relationships. It has gleaming new shelves and bins. It has a 'soft' freeze' section that let's you store ice cream at a perfect eating consistency [apparently] I have been without a stand alone freezer since 2003 and I have really missed having one. I decided between the CSA and the garden that this would be the year we really needed a freezer and my wonderful wife agreed with my reasoning.
Once again I can freeze pick your own stuff, or produce other people want to give us. I can make soup stock and save bread crumbs and have a place to put them. I can even stock up on the occasional frozen burrito or meal when on sale for future emergencies. I can cook ahead of time and stow lunches away.
In many ways the freezer has been the best part of the week so far. The rest of it has been a wife traveling for work, physical discomfort and lots of tasks at work that I really don't like. But I feel great about the goals reached. I should make other goals that I can reach. It feels pretty fantastic.
closing week fright
I could write about the yummy palm sugar cookies I made today and question why exactly they were so crispy. I could bemoan the fact that it is cold and wet and snowing here this weekend. I could also try to write a more intimate truth.
We are closing on the lake house this week and I am freaking out! It is all going to become so real so very, very soon. I still have no idea if I will like spending lots of time in a lake house I am responsible for...I don't know how hardly anything works...I worry I won't have time, I'll lose activities that I enjoy doing here and now. Nothing is really in my control. Why am I making a big purchase when the economy is spinning? What if house prices drop even more and I kick myself? Why is this the week when I am so busy at work? What if work goes away like it did for over 600,000 people last month alone!! Is the weather ever going to warm up? Do all my friends and family think I am nuts to be doing this?
Basically, I am spinning around in my head. The fear of the unknown is something. And this is something I signed up for, it's not something that just happened to me. eeekk!!
....deep breathing...
Of course today I did realize I could get the red toaster oven for here, the toaster oven I have been craving since Rome and take my great copper toaster up to the lake. That made me pretty happy. I am such the appliance nut.
I will breathe and think about the new appliances I will now have an excuse to buy.
We are closing on the lake house this week and I am freaking out! It is all going to become so real so very, very soon. I still have no idea if I will like spending lots of time in a lake house I am responsible for...I don't know how hardly anything works...I worry I won't have time, I'll lose activities that I enjoy doing here and now. Nothing is really in my control. Why am I making a big purchase when the economy is spinning? What if house prices drop even more and I kick myself? Why is this the week when I am so busy at work? What if work goes away like it did for over 600,000 people last month alone!! Is the weather ever going to warm up? Do all my friends and family think I am nuts to be doing this?
Basically, I am spinning around in my head. The fear of the unknown is something. And this is something I signed up for, it's not something that just happened to me. eeekk!!
....deep breathing...
Of course today I did realize I could get the red toaster oven for here, the toaster oven I have been craving since Rome and take my great copper toaster up to the lake. That made me pretty happy. I am such the appliance nut.
I will breathe and think about the new appliances I will now have an excuse to buy.
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