January has been pretty good so far (as far as clearing up some dumb small medical debts, throwing small money towards mortgage, etc). For the first time we are credit-card free and are tackling the mortgage and student loan (no more head in the sand for us, with every payment I make -- I designate how much is interest and how much is principle). I feel that we are making better decisions on the small things as well.
This brings me to this AM. It's a busy day here with basketball games, a birthday party, coordinating efforts to get girls to the mall with their respective bffs, etc. Not to mention running dangerously low on toilet paper and milk - while not wanting to run to Sam's Club, AND having a coupon exire today at Target for free digital prints.
Since the dryer died, I've been faithfully doing small loads of laundry at a time and hanging them in the basement to dry. DH said he thought that it *might* be the thermostat and a loose belt. In no more than ten minutes he vacuumed out the lint, extracted the old thermostat and called to see the hours at the local appliance part store. For $33.57 he purchased a new thermostat, installed it, and returned to me in working condition my dryer.
The old him would have been "Just buy another one." The new him was "Let's see if another $35 can do the trick again." And it did.
Off to dry a load of towels!
DH works wonders (again)
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