Broken

Let's hope it stops at three.

I was sad when we learned that the price to fix our 17-year-old washing machine was the same as the price of the new one. On the other hand, it made the decision process very easy!

My teen has had the same watch for 5.5 years and doesn't understand why I keep buying this style when I know it will break. On the other hand, I love all the features and it is only $10 to fix.

Sigh. We received a pair of these chairs as wedding gifts. On the plus side, I married someone who likes to sew.

Out with the old

The dishwasher came with the house sixteen years ago and we had never truly loved it, but it had worked well, especially when we used higher quality detergent. It was sad when the water pooled and the lights wouldn't turn off. D. read the materials and watched the videos, but still couldn't fix it.  He predicted that the price to have someone else fix it would be more than one-third the price to replace it.

That process felt like an old joke.

Shopper:  One dollar for a pound of bananas?  The grocer down the street sells them fifty cents a pound.
Grocer:  So why don't you buy them there?
Shopper:  They're out of bananas.
Grocer:  When I am out of bananas they are thirty cents a pound!

We found plenty of cheap prices for the model we wanted only to learn they were sold out.  We finally found a match, but they had only black and D. wanted white.  Finally it was ordered and delivered.

Why pay for someone else to install it when you can do it yourself for free?

It is in, it works, and one of the kids said our kitchen looks like a magazine now.