The end of an era.
Feb. 26th, 2008 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherron0Today, I got a new dryer. I know, big whoop. And it wasn't even one of those fancy $1300 ones. Almost the cheapest you could get.
But.
The one I replaced, because it quit getting hot, was 21 years old. Older than my oldest child. If you exclude the antique furniture and stuff I inherited from Grandmother, probably the oldest thing I owned And we moved that thing from California to Ohio to Alabama. (They say every time you move furniture or an appliance you age it ten years.) Good machine. Kenmore, I think.
While I was at Lowes, I went ahead and bought the stupid dishwasher I've been putting off buying for a year or more. Not the cheapest, but close. I have a hard time caring about appliances. The boy at Best Buy wanted to sell me that shiny red, fancy dryer. I told him all those buttons scared me. He started telling me all it would do. So I covered up 3/4 of the dial on the cheap one, and said, "Honey, I'm only going to use this cycle -- ever. This one (the cheap 4 cycle one) does more than I need a dryer to do!" He sort of wandered off hoping the crazy lady went quietly.
But.
The one I replaced, because it quit getting hot, was 21 years old. Older than my oldest child. If you exclude the antique furniture and stuff I inherited from Grandmother, probably the oldest thing I owned And we moved that thing from California to Ohio to Alabama. (They say every time you move furniture or an appliance you age it ten years.) Good machine. Kenmore, I think.
While I was at Lowes, I went ahead and bought the stupid dishwasher I've been putting off buying for a year or more. Not the cheapest, but close. I have a hard time caring about appliances. The boy at Best Buy wanted to sell me that shiny red, fancy dryer. I told him all those buttons scared me. He started telling me all it would do. So I covered up 3/4 of the dial on the cheap one, and said, "Honey, I'm only going to use this cycle -- ever. This one (the cheap 4 cycle one) does more than I need a dryer to do!" He sort of wandered off hoping the crazy lady went quietly.