Are volkswagons that bad, too? My mother gets a about a month’s use out of her Jeep Wrangler between repairs…
Bad things do seem to come in threes, though, so the OP ought to be okay for a while.
Could be worse.
Could be raining.
…
Seriously, same thing is happening to me. I’ve been working two jobs - one full time and one part time - to pay off bills. I get laid off from the full time job. Well, okay, there’s severence pay. Bills are practically paid off. I get some time off, and then in August, I work full-time again.
Then I went to the dentist for the first time in five years. That wasn’t just asking for it. That was sending one of those tasteful invitations on white 100% cotton vellum stock with the tissue paper insert and the swirly cursive text. $1400 for a replacement crown, a new crown, and several fillings that need replacement.
sigh
Then the car started misbehaving. Because, just the other day, I commented on how well behaved it had been. Apparently, I dropped another of those invitations without even realizing it. Radiator fan and motor replacement. Idler pulley thingamajiggy. Two motor mounting rubber baby buggy bumper brushings. $750.
Last week, I had enough money to last me to mid-August. This week, I’m hoping I qualify for unemployment thanks to the lay-off. Oy.
Ouch, phouka. What a bummer.
We managed to get through the day without the house burning down, the truck falling apart, or the cats hawking a hairball onto something expensive and irreplaceable. Maybe I should go to bed while there’s still time.
The reverse went out on my mostly dead car, I overdrafted my bank account, and today my bed broke when I sat on it. What a good month. 
I am sorry to hear about your T.V. dying, but I will make a suggestion.
The T.V. broke, which sucks, but have you thought of trying to fill your time without the t.v.?*
I ended up in a situation where I didn’t have t.v for about 4 months. It was very strange at first. I missed it, however I soon re-discovered that there were all kinds of cool things to do instead of watching t.v.
These days I watch about an hour of t.v. a week, usually some MSNBC to find out who is blowing up what (need to keep track of these things ya know). Otherwise the t.v.s in my house are off. I have two t.v.s (my roommate has one and watches less t.v. than I do) one in my bedroom and one in the den. They get used for movies mostly these days and I manage about 1 movie a month.
The amount of time I have to do other things has expanded greatly since I dropped the t.v. thing.
Slee
*Note, it very well may be that you spend most of your time doing other things already. The thing is that I see so many people I know wasting almost all their off time watching t.v. (something I was totally guilty of for a long time) that it amazes me. I didn’t really realize how much time I spent in front of the tube until I quit watching. All those things I didn’t have time for, well I found the time once I stopped watching t.v.
Oh, and it also does really suck when ou have money set aside for something and then stuff breaks. I hate that.
Well, if you want to get technical, I haven’t watched TV for 15 years. We’ve never had even the basic channels, let alone cable or satellite or whatever is available these days. The projector *only *goes on (oops, went on) when we’re watching something on DVD or playing a game.
(I’m one of those annoying “I don’t watch TV” people, though I do watch TV shows once they’re on DVD. Boy, before the Internet and DVDs of shows, people were amazed how oblivious we were about what was on TV.)
We’re still trying to decide if we should send the projector back and see how much it would cost to repair, if it’s repairable, or just get a new one soon.
Why does the image of Enzyte Bob pop in mind?
Shirley’s Week: Edited
Time spent waiting for truck to be waited on: 4 hours
**Time the truck was actually worked on in its entirety: **45 minutes.
Cost of new exhaust for Truck: $180
**How much of a Christmas stocking I am knitting for a wedding present was done while waiting for my truck to not sound like the Apocalypse of Red Necks was thundering down the street: ** 2/3rds. woot
Cost of a new transmission on our ‘good’ car: $2000.
Time inconvenienced having one car out: none. Borrowed a work truck. Thank you Bossman.
Cost of buying your neighbor a box of cookies when you lose your keys and cannot find them and your truck is locked in the driveway Husband’s fault and your neighbor gives the key to his wife’s van so you can get to your craptacular $7 hour job to kinda help pay for the new exhaust: $4.99
**Finding your lost keys exactly where you told your husband you knew they were but couldn’t get to them because he locked the truck in the drive in the middle of Nowheresville but you didn’t *rub it in. ** * too much Kharma Points 10,000.
**Death of daughter’s Fish named Princess and buying a new replacement fish within hours: ** $2.12
Burying Princess by the front tree so she could be used to feed the tree and teaching your children about the circle of life and then having your elder child say, " When you die Mama, we can plant you next to Princess." : Priceless
For everyone else, there is Reality TV.