Absolutely drained................

On Tuesday I had a hair appointment for a trim.  Fair enough.  I have a love/hate relationship with hairdressers and I hate paying a lot for a simple haircut.  However, I try to go on a Tuesday at this place when it's "only" $20 plus tax for a haircut and I leave a $5 tip, so it comes in at under $28.  Also I have now "trained" the hairdresser in the way I want my hair cut....LOL  Still, I always find the whole thing a little stressful.

After that hubby and I went for a coffee.  We then went to Home Depot to spend just under $1,000 on a new dryer.  Went with another LG one.  Getting free delivery and more importantly they are taking the old one away for us.  Hubby will strip out the electronics from the old one, as they will fit the new one, if need be.  It won't be here until next Tuesday, but nothing we can do about that.

Then we went to CAA to get some travel insurance for an upcoming trip.  That is where the s*it hit the fan as they say!!!  We got a woman who knew best and wouldn't listen.  Suffice to say by the time we left there we felt as though we had run a marathon.

We had decided before going to CAA that once we had sorted out the insurance we would go to Panera Bread for lunch as we have a gift card.  We walked into the store and just looked at the menu and neither of us could decide what to order, so walked out and went home for lunch.

We sat down in our chairs and we both said at the same time, we felt so drained with it all, despite not doing anything much all morning.

I have never felt so tired/old/drained in all my life.  How one person could make both of us feel so drained is mind boggling.

Hubby then had to call CAA as he has to talk to the underwriters for his travel insurance.  Good news his was "only" around $340 for 8 days, whereas mine went up $30 to nearly $80 for the 8 days.

The rest of the day was spent sitting in our chairs watching soccer on tv and staring into space..............

Have you ever left a place and felt totally drained and unable to make a simple decision like what you want for lunch?????

Drat.............

I hope this isn't going to be any indication of how 2026 is going to be moving forward.........

My dryer is on the fritz.  It's an LG dryer and I have had it around 7 years.  I have always had good luck with LG appliances, but this dryer has already had multiple electronic boards replaced, and it looks as though they have gone again.  So I may be on the lookout for a new dryer.  I don't expect to see much change out of $1,100 (13 % tax included )

I do like a glass door on it, otherwise no other preferences.  I know it would be cheaper to go without a dryer and just hang to dry in the house, but I am at a stage where "the easier, the better," is the way to go!

I was told to stay well away from Samsung, but if anyone has any recommendations I am all ears.......

Yes, it has happened

 

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It's true when they say things happen in three's.  I wonder who came up with that?

So it started with my dryer.  I have an LG model and as per the specs:

"Each cycle will give you perfect drying results thanks to Sensor Dry technology which constantly analyzes the internal humidity levels and adjusts the drying time accordingly"

Now that part of my dryer seems to have gone kaput, and I am having to use my regular none sensor drying function.  Hubby thankfully is an electrician so he has looked at it and has ordered some part, which will probably total over $250, but which is cheaper than getting someone out to fix it and have to pay for their labour and the parts.

The next thing to happen is my fridge started turning off by itself, for no reason at all!!  Things came to a head last Wednesday when hubby got up to go to work and discovered that the fridge wasn't working and came and told me at 4:30 am in the morning.  Suffice to say I wasn't impressed at being woken up at that time.

It was enough to spur me on to see about someone coming out to look at it.  BUT, we finally had a stroke of luck with this as when I looked at the paperwork, would you believe that the warranty ran out on the 7th of December and I called to set this all up on the 6th.

This is not the first time I have had issues with this fridge, the ice maker rusted out within a couple of years of buying the fridge.  It's a KitchenAid fridge and I spent over $5,000 on it.  Piece of advice to everyone, avoid KitchenAid appliances they are not worth the money.  However the $700 I spent on extending my warranty will be, as I would reckon this repair will cost that and more, as we (hubby!!) are thinking the main circuit board will have to be replaced.

Update on Fridge: the repair guy came on Monday stayed 15 minutes, took photos and said he would order a circuit board that should arrive next week.  There is a leak in the back, took photos of that and said he would ask around to see if anyone had any idea what might be wrong????

So based on that someone will be back next week; so fingers, toes and everything else crossed that the fridge doesn't stop working before then!

Then the third thing happened on Sunday our toaster broke.  Luckily that is only a $25 replacement, as I ordered a cheap Black and Decker model with great reviews off Amazon.  I wanted a Smeg one but couldn't justify paying over $200 for one; been there done that with buying top of the line things😉

So there you go, three annoying and expensive things that have happened to us just recently!

It could be worse I guess, not sure how though?