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We've lived in this house for a good fifteen years. And a lot of our stuff may well have a fifteen year lifespan...
Our fridge, which is actually 22 years old, is starting to have trouble staying quite cold enough -- the freezer holds things at significantly below freezing, but not as far below freezing as you want, and it's started building up frost, which it never did before. Our washing machine is making noises on its spin cycle. Our stove needs a match to light the burners, which doesn't much bother me, but if we're going to be spending so much money that we'll have to take out a loan, we should look at. And our car is at 180,000 miles and has some sorts of harmonic hums at around 45 mph.
Nothing's BROKEN, yet, but everything is giving signals that it's probably about time to think about what we're going to do when it DOES break. Fortunately, things ARE giving us warnings.
Oh, plus, there's a whole bunch of home repair, like replacing siding, that we really ought to do.
This is going to be an expensive year. But, we're fortunate that we probably can handle an expensive year.
Our fridge, which is actually 22 years old, is starting to have trouble staying quite cold enough -- the freezer holds things at significantly below freezing, but not as far below freezing as you want, and it's started building up frost, which it never did before. Our washing machine is making noises on its spin cycle. Our stove needs a match to light the burners, which doesn't much bother me, but if we're going to be spending so much money that we'll have to take out a loan, we should look at. And our car is at 180,000 miles and has some sorts of harmonic hums at around 45 mph.
Nothing's BROKEN, yet, but everything is giving signals that it's probably about time to think about what we're going to do when it DOES break. Fortunately, things ARE giving us warnings.
Oh, plus, there's a whole bunch of home repair, like replacing siding, that we really ought to do.
This is going to be an expensive year. But, we're fortunate that we probably can handle an expensive year.