So I finally got around to fitting the loft ladder that I bought in a fit of optimism in March and has been sitting in its polythene wrapper in the garage for six months. Result.
Then my wife informs me that she went to open the curtains in the spare room and a chunk of plaster landed on her head. So I had to remove the curtain rail, fill a hole in the wall, and reattach it. Result.
Now this morning the dishwasher failed to work and flashed error lights which Google tells me mean that the heating element needs to be replaced.
I swear, things only fall apart once you start mending other stuff. If you slob around and do nothing, everything works fine. :mad:
Conservation of problems. There are always things wrong. Often you can avoid paying attention to them (there’s some wood rot on one of the fascia boards) but as soon as you upset the balance (fixed the wood rot) something else must go wrong (the refrigerator is on fire again.)
Why is it that as soon as my husband gets wound up to work on one of the million little projects left over from last winter’s renovation, something breaks that urgently needs to be fixed?
Oh, that’s it - I am totally NOT fixing the rotting fascia boards! I just replaced the garbage disposal and I’m scared it will start leaking if I upset the balance!
For the same reason that if you finally start to get ahead financially, you will have a sudden and undeniable expense that will put you right back where you started. I have no idea how to avoid this; it just seems to be a fact of life.
