By Dolores ;o)
5/5/10
Take a shower while you can; you never know when the water will be turned off or the hot water heater will break down. Do laundry while you can for the same reasons: machines break down.
Put a screen over your outside dryer vent to keep birds from building their nests in it. If there's a nest in there the birds stay warm but your clothes won't get dry no matter how many times you turn the dryer back on. You'll all run out of clean underwear.
If you have a dishwasher, the garbage disposal and hot water are routed through it. If your dishwasher breaks down (maybe it never worked right in the first place) or you take it out to put floor tile under it (maybe with tiles you've had for five years), you won't have hot water in your kitchen for dishes or baby's sink baths. You can do dishes in cold water if you must. But you must heat some water to add to a baby's sink bath. If your stove is also disconnected and moved into your family room during the floor tiling, you must use the microwave to heat water. If one of the kids microwaved a Chinese take-out box with metal handle and your microwave is broken or you have to stay off the kitchen floor while the tile cement or the grout dries, well then, you'll have to bathe the baby in the sled on the floor of the shower upstairs. More kids can fit in the sled at once anyway. But if the problem is the hot water heater, just forget giving anybody a bath upstairs, there won't be hot water up there either. Just send a note to school with your kids explaining why they're so dirty. Or...go to your married daughter's house for everyone's baths and showers and hope you don't overwhelm their hot water heater.
Brain freeze is not what happens when you eat ice cream-- it's what happens when you wash your hair in very cold water. If your brain is frozen you might feel dizzy. Hair warms up before your scalp does.
A new hot water heater costs about $500. Same with a new dishwasher. New underwear for everyone costs at least $50.
5-17-10
When you buy a second car, make sure it will seat your whole family or you'll have transportation problems when the larger vehicle is in the shop or you lose your keys for two weeks. You'll have to make two trips to get everybody to church, or ask somebody else for rides if your husband is the bishop and he forgets and drives the only car with keys to church for earlier meetings.
When one rear tire wears out and goes flat on your car you must buy two new rear tires. Same goes for the front tires. If by some chance it happens on both of your cars, you must buy a lot of new tires.
Tires cost about $100 each. Times 4 = $400 + tax.
5-22-10
You should order new glasses when they break the first time, you can only fix them with Super Glue or Shrink Tubing so many times. It takes time to get the new glasses and you can't drive without them. This will make it hard to get new ones. Well, you can order new glasses online IF you already have a prescription and your computer hasn't crashed.
You can live without a computer but pretty soon you feel like you've lost touch with far-away relatives you email and when/if you finally do get online again you will have lost all of your blog followers and you'll have so many of those FWD:FWD:FWD emails you may not be able to open your old email address anyway.
You should have more than one form of technology to communicate with family in case of fire, flood or an upcoming family reunion. If your computer crashes you could still use your cell phone. If the baby drops your cell phone in the toilet, hopefully by then you've replaced your computer. If not, be sure your husband also has a cell phone. If he takes it to work, well then try writing letters through the postal system-- if you have any stationary and stamps. You may have to go to the post office to buy these; here's hoping your new glasses have arrived and you can find your car keys!
Glasses with bifocal lenses cost $200. A computer costs $$$? (use the one in your husband's office). A cell phone has monthly fees (but is necessary with kids with special needs). A postage stamp is now 44 cents. To replace your car keys: $40 for a programmed key online, or $185 from the dealership including remote key fob and towing.
Take a shower while you can; you never know when the water will be turned off or the hot water heater will break down. Do laundry while you can for the same reasons: machines break down.
Put a screen over your outside dryer vent to keep birds from building their nests in it. If there's a nest in there the birds stay warm but your clothes won't get dry no matter how many times you turn the dryer back on. You'll all run out of clean underwear.
If you have a dishwasher, the garbage disposal and hot water are routed through it. If your dishwasher breaks down (maybe it never worked right in the first place) or you take it out to put floor tile under it (maybe with tiles you've had for five years), you won't have hot water in your kitchen for dishes or baby's sink baths. You can do dishes in cold water if you must. But you must heat some water to add to a baby's sink bath. If your stove is also disconnected and moved into your family room during the floor tiling, you must use the microwave to heat water. If one of the kids microwaved a Chinese take-out box with metal handle and your microwave is broken or you have to stay off the kitchen floor while the tile cement or the grout dries, well then, you'll have to bathe the baby in the sled on the floor of the shower upstairs. More kids can fit in the sled at once anyway. But if the problem is the hot water heater, just forget giving anybody a bath upstairs, there won't be hot water up there either. Just send a note to school with your kids explaining why they're so dirty. Or...go to your married daughter's house for everyone's baths and showers and hope you don't overwhelm their hot water heater.
Brain freeze is not what happens when you eat ice cream-- it's what happens when you wash your hair in very cold water. If your brain is frozen you might feel dizzy. Hair warms up before your scalp does.
A new hot water heater costs about $500. Same with a new dishwasher. New underwear for everyone costs at least $50.
5-17-10
When you buy a second car, make sure it will seat your whole family or you'll have transportation problems when the larger vehicle is in the shop or you lose your keys for two weeks. You'll have to make two trips to get everybody to church, or ask somebody else for rides if your husband is the bishop and he forgets and drives the only car with keys to church for earlier meetings.
When one rear tire wears out and goes flat on your car you must buy two new rear tires. Same goes for the front tires. If by some chance it happens on both of your cars, you must buy a lot of new tires.
Tires cost about $100 each. Times 4 = $400 + tax.
5-22-10
You should order new glasses when they break the first time, you can only fix them with Super Glue or Shrink Tubing so many times. It takes time to get the new glasses and you can't drive without them. This will make it hard to get new ones. Well, you can order new glasses online IF you already have a prescription and your computer hasn't crashed.
You can live without a computer but pretty soon you feel like you've lost touch with far-away relatives you email and when/if you finally do get online again you will have lost all of your blog followers and you'll have so many of those FWD:FWD:FWD emails you may not be able to open your old email address anyway.
You should have more than one form of technology to communicate with family in case of fire, flood or an upcoming family reunion. If your computer crashes you could still use your cell phone. If the baby drops your cell phone in the toilet, hopefully by then you've replaced your computer. If not, be sure your husband also has a cell phone. If he takes it to work, well then try writing letters through the postal system-- if you have any stationary and stamps. You may have to go to the post office to buy these; here's hoping your new glasses have arrived and you can find your car keys!
Glasses with bifocal lenses cost $200. A computer costs $$$? (use the one in your husband's office). A cell phone has monthly fees (but is necessary with kids with special needs). A postage stamp is now 44 cents. To replace your car keys: $40 for a programmed key online, or $185 from the dealership including remote key fob and towing.
If you pray always you may eventually find your keys under a load of clothing waiting to be folded after that dryer back-up.
*Always have money saved for emergencies!
1 comment:
oh Dolores - sounds like a really rough patch! :) Sending hugs
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