Mini-Murphy
Posted By Kim on March 5, 2010
I discovered today that our dryer no longer starts. It’s been a quick succession of failure, which started when it no longer needed to be turned on to start – just changing the dial to a new cycle was enough to turn it on (I noticed that last week). Now, it’s definitely not starting. I did some looking on the manufacturer’s website; which of course is all about having a service call made and blah blah blah. Considering I’m teetering on the verge of labor (today has had a definite upswing of Braxton Hicks contractions, plenty of pressure, and all sorts of fun); I’m NOT going to wait for a “service call” to happen nor am I going to just not do laundry.
Since we bought the dryer as a “scratch and dent” type thing from Lowe’s (the person returned it saying it was “loud” – their technicians couldn’t figure out why it was loud, and it’s not loud to us), there’s already no warranty or anything like that. Since one half of the House Building Crew is currently having a surgery performed; this frees up Greg’s weekend to fix the dryer.
The nice thing is that the biggest wank we have about said dryer not working is that I have to haul our wet clothes to Greg’s Mom’s dryer, dry them there, and then haul them back. We have money that we can use to replace whatever part is needed (hopefully it’s just that) – so there’s really no stress in the sense of “how are we going to pay for this?!” going on. Thank God for the budget, that’s for sure.
Hopefully the dryer just needs a new switch and Nothing Massive – but if the worst case scenario of having to replace the dryer were to happen, we could do it, pay in cash, and laugh ourselves silly; because one year ago, we couldn’t do that.
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Dear LO, Please hold on until Daddy fixes the dryer & Grandpa is feeling better.
Good luck on the dismantling & repair! Sounds like fun. (;
DEAR, DEAR little one! Typos happen when I need to go to bed. /:
Fixed it for you!