Creature Comforts
Our washing machine died Monday. So we're without the ability to do laundry until Saturday when the new machine arrives. This got me to thinking about household difficulties we've had in the past and how, on a scale of one to ten with ten being a total pain in the ass, this is probably a two.
Some past disasters we've survived have included:
1. Oil-emitting heater trouble (smelly black smoke rising from your cellar is scary)
2. Squirrel infestation (of course, they were nesting in the walls behind my bed so I could heard them racing around all hours)
3. Dying refrigerator (milk would spoil in two days)
4. Roomates with no sense of "clean" (when you burn a candle outside someone's bedroom in an attempt to diffuse odor, it's bad)
5. Very old wiring that used to result in blown fuses (some of it has been updated so this happens less often)
And because we live in an old house with uninsulated crawl spaces, the top story is very cold in winter and scorching in summer. Though the squirrels seemed to like it before they were removed. Soon it will be time to weatherproof the house with caulk and plastic sheeting which means no more open windows until April or May.
Yeah, just remembering the pre-new wiring days, when we had to rotate the use of space heaters so we didn't blow fuses makes me laugh in the face of a broken washing machine.