Busy day today

So over the weekend my dryer started making... a noise. Not a good noise. I googled a bit on the appliance repair front but this was a used dryer that I'd gotten from my mom and her husband apparently (via the power of blog) in 2010. I mean, I'd had the dryer for a while? But apparently a while is like thirteen years. (Fuck, I'm old.) And the dryer was USED when I got it. With a shitty door that required a lift-n-shove to close every single time, since I got it.

Hrm. Bad door plus also now new, concerning noise = new dryer, an expense I was not looking to incur.

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