Busy day today
Sep. 12th, 2023 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickSo 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.
I had to go to the appliance store today anyway to buy a fridge for one of our vacant units. Existing fridge, while functional, is not... nice anymore. It's got bubbling rust and wire shelves (we have not bought wire shelved fridges since about 2009) and I don't love it. So, I had to buy a new fridge.
While I was there I talked to Appliance Guy about dryers. I allowed as how I didn't wanna pay a lot for amuffler dryer. Appliance Guy had some loaner dryers (for people who have ordered a new dryer but need a dryer while their new one is en route or whatever) and he asked if I would be amenable to buying one of those. I was like 'yeah'. And during this discussion of possibly acquiring a not-new dryer, Appliance Guy's worker (I am known to all the people who work at Appliance Store because I buy a lot of fridges and stoves for apartments. I am, as it were, a frequent flyer on the appliance-buying front.) comes back from the daily install run and he's all ... "Hey, there's a fully-functional (higher-end appliance brand) dryer in the junk corner of the parking lot. Nothing wrong with it, guy's wife just wanted a new washer/dryer set. You want it?" I was... yes. When it was new (which it is not now) this was a thousand-dollar dryer.
My Appliance Guy is not allowed to sell the used shit that he's taken out of the homes of people who've bought New Shit. It doesn't look good, or whatever. Anyway, the junk corner of the parking lot is behind appliance store and it's used to accumulate white goods for the recycle guy who gathers up all the white goods and turns them into money. If you buy appliances on the regular from Appliance Guy, you can put your used/dead white goods in the junk corner of the parking lot and they disappear for free. (White goods: stove/fridge/washer/dryer/water heater.)
Now Appliance Guy knows I am not gonna spend a ton on a dryer. But I continually buy stoves and fridges for my apartments. So, if he can point me at a freebie dryer that is free, well, yeah. He's not losing a super-expensive appliance sale because I am not that guy. But I am a continuing customer, a steady customer. And I will for damn sure go home, determine that this dryer was a thousand-dollar dryer when it was new eight years ago, and appreciate the heck out of it.
I uninstalled the old dryer and installed the new dryer which (a) works (b) has fancy light-up controls and sings a little tune to me when it starts or ends (c) is super duper extra quiet and (d) has forty three settings that I will never, ever use. I also took my old dryer out and threw it on the pickup for dropping off at the junk corner tomorrow. No, I did not have help. I'm very good at leverage and I move a lot of appliances in my day job.
In other news, I turned in my final not-a-pedophile paperwork for the 4H and took my horse out for a quick spin AFTER the dryer install and BEFORE the rain. That went fairly well.
Hrm. Bad door plus also now new, concerning noise = new dryer, an expense I was not looking to incur.
I had to go to the appliance store today anyway to buy a fridge for one of our vacant units. Existing fridge, while functional, is not... nice anymore. It's got bubbling rust and wire shelves (we have not bought wire shelved fridges since about 2009) and I don't love it. So, I had to buy a new fridge.
While I was there I talked to Appliance Guy about dryers. I allowed as how I didn't wanna pay a lot for a
My Appliance Guy is not allowed to sell the used shit that he's taken out of the homes of people who've bought New Shit. It doesn't look good, or whatever. Anyway, the junk corner of the parking lot is behind appliance store and it's used to accumulate white goods for the recycle guy who gathers up all the white goods and turns them into money. If you buy appliances on the regular from Appliance Guy, you can put your used/dead white goods in the junk corner of the parking lot and they disappear for free. (White goods: stove/fridge/washer/dryer/water heater.)
Now Appliance Guy knows I am not gonna spend a ton on a dryer. But I continually buy stoves and fridges for my apartments. So, if he can point me at a freebie dryer that is free, well, yeah. He's not losing a super-expensive appliance sale because I am not that guy. But I am a continuing customer, a steady customer. And I will for damn sure go home, determine that this dryer was a thousand-dollar dryer when it was new eight years ago, and appreciate the heck out of it.
I uninstalled the old dryer and installed the new dryer which (a) works (b) has fancy light-up controls and sings a little tune to me when it starts or ends (c) is super duper extra quiet and (d) has forty three settings that I will never, ever use. I also took my old dryer out and threw it on the pickup for dropping off at the junk corner tomorrow. No, I did not have help. I'm very good at leverage and I move a lot of appliances in my day job.
In other news, I turned in my final not-a-pedophile paperwork for the 4H and took my horse out for a quick spin AFTER the dryer install and BEFORE the rain. That went fairly well.
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Date: 2023-09-16 02:52 am (UTC)Where our family house is there is a place that only sells appliances that have been taken out of houses. Apparently they buy them from the big box stores that would have just chucked them, fix them up, and sell them on. We got a nice W/D set and fridge for almost free there.