Not the Duct Tape!
Woman in the Middle | November 7, 2012My husband and I can be a little frugal. I may buy too many delicious drinks at Starbucks but, other wise, we try to keep things under control. No cable with 100s of stations, no smart phones, used cars or new ones only if we can get an interest free loan, that kind of thing. It really helps that Hubby is very handy. He was able to save us lots of money by fixing the leaking front bathroom faucet recently, the one that caused a minor flood in the hallway a couple of weeks ago. So, that is why we have a dryer that is over 30 years old.
When we first got married I have no idea how we planned to get our laundry done. Maybe we planned to go to my Mom’s. But before that slightly “Maybe I am not an adult after all” moment had to happen, we were approached by the Trustees committee of our church. Our church was getting a new minister who would be bringing his own brand new washer and dryer with him to live in our parsonage. Would Hubby and I like to purchase the old ones for $50? Out came the check book and the newlyweds felt like grown ups one again! The washer and dryer were avocado green, but who cares, they worked! Yeah!
The washing machine finally died several years ago and we replaced it. The dryer has died twice but it is a simple machine and Hubby was able to fix it both times. However, after the last time it died and was fixed I finally put my foot down. I told him that dryer must be sucking natural gas like there is no tomorrow (no energy star rating here!) and the next time it died we were going to get a new one. Of course, it heard me and so it has been YEARS since it last stopped working. It just keeps chugging along, with no problems. Then, a couple of nights ago, I went into the garage and this is what I saw:
Oh no, duct tape can only mean a problem….When I asked Hubby, who was drying his clothes, I found out that the latch had broken. So he solved the problem with duct tape. Good temporary fix, but at the age of 50 I was kind of hoping to be able to have a dryer that doesn’t require duct tape to keep working. Hubby wants to go to a local appliance recycler to get a “new” latch, saying he hates to get rid of a perfectly good dryer that just has a broken latch. He is trying to convince me that this latch problem doesn’t fall within my third strikes declaration of several years ago. We shall see….
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