9:01 PM, Apr 10, 2007 
Laundry Machines
I've been able to cross off some items in the list below, and get a bunch of work done on top of that. Also, I gave myself gas today for eating a 10-oz burger at the Flea Market, washing it down with a Bully! Porter.
I did my laundry tonight. The last load is in the dryer now. I'm very happy with the laundry machines I bought through a popular web site for a grand total of $200. Their cabins, or whatever you call the inside of a washing machine or dryer, hold far more contents than any units I have used before. My elation with the deal I got was amplified when Jeff and I were at Home Depot this weekend, when I saw that a smaller, shinier set cost a full $2100 more than what I paid.
Seriously, what possesses people to spend this kind of money on something that in most cases, they don't need at all? Laundry machines are tools- nothing more. It's not a sports car, a diamond necklace, or a big-screen TV. You don't show off your laundry machines to visitors. You keep them in the basement, specifically to keep them out of view. It's like a furnace or a water heater. So facing the fact that they're purely objects of utility, why drop a zillion dollars to replace something that works perfectly well?
Never mind. I'm still getting over the great deal I apparently got, though it seems that there are almost always good deals to be had on used laundry machines, since people are constantly replacing them with new ones for jaw-dropping prices. I wouldn't have mine if not for some folks in Overland Park getting that inexplicable impulse to replace that which does not need replacing.
4 comments
1970's was sure you'd want to know:
I want my laundry machines back!
I want my laundry machines back!
12:14 PM, Apr 11, 2007
bahua thinks:
You made good laundry machines!
You made good laundry machines!
12:57 PM, Apr 11, 2007
alexander noname cut in with:
someone who drinks $2k in beer a week fusses about those who can afford to discard junk washers/dryers. go figure.
someone who drinks $2k in beer a week fusses about those who can afford to discard junk washers/dryers. go figure.
9:36 AM, Apr 12, 2007
bahua interjected:
Uh, that would be my roommate, not me. And they aren't junk. That's exactly my point. If they were junk, I'd understand.
Uh, that would be my roommate, not me. And they aren't junk. That's exactly my point. If they were junk, I'd understand.
11:37 AM, Apr 12, 2007
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