I think appliances are deliberately designed to have a certain life span. The problem with this is that if all appliances are from the same company and purchased at the same time then they can all die at the same time as well. As a result, on Valentine's Day, our oven died. The dishwasher had already been dying for a little while. The microwave followed shortly after the oven (when Mike tried to show his sister-in-law how it was starting to break and succeeded in completely breaking it). Just for good measure the garage door opener broke the next morning. All of this was preceded by our upstairs vacuum cleaner dying the week before.
Fortunately we hadn't already made plans for how to spend our tax return money. Now, after lots of shopping and Mike's haggling, we have a new range, a new microwave, and a new dishwasher. It's nice because they're all the modern stainless steel kind and it really updated the look of our kitchen. My favorite is our dishwasher splurge. We went up a level on the dishwasher and got the kind that is super quiet and can tell how much dirt is still in the water so that it only washes it as long as necessary and saves water and energy. Being kind to the planet always makes me happier. Plus I'm so happy when I unload the dishwasher and the dishes are actually clean. It's been the first time in my life that I've been excited to do the dishes and run the dishwasher. And as an extra bonus Mike's father came to visit and found a kit to fix our garage door opener and was able to fix our vacuum as well. For the time being all is well in the world of our appliances. We're going to enjoy it while it lasts.
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