How Dry I Am

Y’all, our dryer squeals like a stuck pig.  At first, it only did it every now and then. Now it does it every time you turn the damn thing on. We looked into getting it repaired but did you know that dryers don’t have an especially long life span? Ours is five years old and supposedly that’s right about the beginning of the end. And supposedly we could try to get it repaired but the cost of that would be so high it is almost the same price to just buy a new one.

Not that we want to do that, since we’ve been spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave, what with the vacation and the personal training and all that. But we also don’t want to do something stupid like burn the house down with a faulty dryer.

This weekend here in Texas, if you buy an Energy Star appliance less than I think $2,000, you pay no sales tax on it. I guess I should at least look into that. But here’s the dilemma. Our washer is just fine. Runs like a champ. So if we just buy the new dryer, they won’t match, but we’ll save money. But we’ll have at least one appliance that is energy efficient. But how much electricity does a washer user anyway? But if we do replace them both, what do we do with a perfectly good washer? Does anyone ever go looking to buy just a washer? I guess maybe if we found someone on Craigslist that has a perfectly good dryer and a washer that went kaput we would be a match made in heaven.

Part of me says just hold out. The squeal is annoying but I don’t honestly believe that anything is going to catch fire. But then again, I’d hate for it to crap out on me in the midst of a load of laundry one night before Jake has to leave for a trip. And you know that when it dies, it’ll be at the most inopportune moment possible.

I hate spending money on grown up boring things. Oh wait, a personal trainer is a grown up boring thing too, isn’t it? Damn.

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