Old and New

Our super sucky dishwasher died. Not a huge shock and not a huge disappointment. None of us loved the loud, obnoxious, not so great thing. BUT my carpet money... my carpet jar money keeps disappearing with things I don't want to buy, but then I have to. And really it's okay. Really, I'm grateful I have the carpet jar (book) money. It's never quite enough to cover completely what we need, but at least it's a super great start. And the new dishwasher is pretty great. :)

New

Almost 3 weeks without a washer and dryer... 6 people, a trip to the laundromat, as well as 2 trips to Heidi's house for laundry... and still we had so much laundry to do when the new set finally came. This isn't even half. For some crazy reason I didn't take a picture of the laundry that traipsed out into the family room. That pile was enormous. I had done 4 loads and I hadn't made a dent yet. But the new set are great and amazingly I had it all done in only 5 days, which is less time than the other set took me to do just a normal week's load. Yes my carpet jar is once again empty, but we have clean clothes and we aren't living at the laundromat or bumming from friends. So, it's all good.

Washer

Our washer has bit the dust.
It's very very very annoying.
Yes it was a decade old, but it was also stupid expensive and supposed to last us an oober long time.
Ugh.
For the last six months I have been putting all of my book money in a jar... hoping one day we'd have enough to buy new carpet/kitchen flooring, which we really do need. Our floors are terrible and they're coming up in spots and cheap and worn.
Anyway, we used all of the carpet money and bought a new washer.
Poo.
Oh, well, Knowing Amelia is out and soon I will start putting money back in the carpet jar.

Don't you just love the laundromat? If it weren't so stupid expensive it wouldn't be that bad.

We spent about half what we spent 10 years ago and I'm hoping these babies will last just as long, another 10 years. Hopefully they'll be here soon... because Heidi is going to get tired of me using her laundry services!!