Joys of home ownership

A few months ago our dryer started to not, well, dry as well as it should. A few weeks after that it stopped drying altogether. Of course, being the bright, intelligent adults that we are it took us about 5 times trying to dry the same load of clothes to figure out our drying was busted. Our washer/dryer set are pretty old (do they even make Whirlpool anymore?), so I considered just getting a shiny new set. Yes! In pretty colors! Fortunately, my much more (at least in this instance) practical (read-electronically inclined) husband started interwebbing it and figured out that most likely we just needed to replace one small part on the dryer and viola! Heated dryer instead of gas run clothes tumbler. Off to the hardware store he went, picked up the less than $20 part and thanks to You Tube installed said part in an afternoon. Dashed were my dreams of a technicolor laundry room, but hey, our clothes are now dried in one session and money saved for more important items still to be determined, so all in all a successful jaunt down the never ending path of owning a home.

On another plus side: We got to try out our new shopvac!