Landlord is useless, so I went over to the Re-store (Appliance and furniture re-sale by Habitat for Humanity) and bought a used clothes washer last weekend. They had a ton of dryers, but only two washers. I reflected that must mean not many people need a new dryer.
Of course, it could also mean that poor folks do without the dryer, but at $25 a pop,* I think anyone who needed one would spring for it.
The also had a ton of dishwashers, but I find that less surprising. I’d upgrade ours if I could afford to, so I’m not surprised that a lot of working ones end up in their shop.
*I saw my exact same washer in Home Deopt for $349. High end it ain’t but cheap = good right now.
The stove bombed on us once and I gave my mother my allowance so we could get food from Mickey Dee’s. My father wasn’t home yet so she couldn’t get any cash off him and us kids were getting a bit hungry.
A few years later the dishwasher and the washing machine blew, with rather spectacular results. There were loud noises and lots of water and in the case of the washer my father called the fire department to remove the water from the basement.
My parents’ car broke in Cimarron Canyon, NM. My father tried to start it and nothing was happening; in the meantime I looked through the back window and saw that we’d come around a blind curve and anything else coming around the bend wouldn’t see us till it hit us. I bailed and yelled at everyone else to get out, then organized my sister and brother to help steer traffic around the car. Then we dragged it off the road. This was when I was 18 and my sister and brother much younger.
My mother got the car started again but it kept having problems and when my parents sold it to some poor unsespecting soul I felt rather sorry for him.
Coffee pots give up their electronic lives to screw my mornings up. I have gone through about 5 of them. I generally get Cuisinarts. The one I had that ground the beans and then made the coffee lasted 6 months. The damn thing was expensive.