Laundry
So, our dryer picked the best time to go kaput. Friday, just after working hours. Seriously, I think it was about 5:03 p.m. and bonk! It just stopped running.
Did you check the breakers? my husband asked. Of course I had already checked the breakers and turned them off and on a couple of times. No dice. I tried to unplug it and plug it back in. I checked to see if it was overheated (I do use it a lot). I think it's been dying a slow death. It was installed in 2004...it was taking over two hours to get a load of laundry dry. Well, and it was making some strange noises last week, just before death. I probably should have called when it started making the noises...sigh. Hindsight is always 20/20.
I immediately went on Code Red, because oh my goodness...one cannot let the laundry get over one's head! Thankfully, I had just finished drying all the diaper inserts when it croaked. Phew. It's one thing to be left with some wet towels and dirty T-shirts, it's another thing to be left with dirty diapers. Not good. We do have a laundromat, but when I took a wet load over, every one of the six functioning dryers were being used by one couple...guess they weren't expecting any company on a Friday, late evening.
(I know, this is SO exciting...but wait, there's more!)
I happened to have brought with me my big drying rack, I think because I believed we'd be living on the economy and I kept reading how expensive German utilities were and so--I thought drying my clothes on a rack would be a regular feature of life. So I've been doing tiny loads of laundry all weekend and hanging them to dry on the rack. Just lightweight stuff, socks and undies and pajamas, and rotating the rack in front of the bathroom radiator on high heat. It's working pretty well.
Wow, I'd forgotten how scratchy clothes are that get air-dried. Takes me back to when we would line-dry our clothes all summer (which I'm sure Mom still does)...and those towels that were like sandpaper!
Anyway, the repair person is coming by tomorrow and hopefully I'll get a new dryer or at least one that works. In the meantime, I need to go rotate stuff off the radiator and onto the rack.
And yes, this is the most exciting thing I can think of to blog about right now...sorry!
Did you check the breakers? my husband asked. Of course I had already checked the breakers and turned them off and on a couple of times. No dice. I tried to unplug it and plug it back in. I checked to see if it was overheated (I do use it a lot). I think it's been dying a slow death. It was installed in 2004...it was taking over two hours to get a load of laundry dry. Well, and it was making some strange noises last week, just before death. I probably should have called when it started making the noises...sigh. Hindsight is always 20/20.
I immediately went on Code Red, because oh my goodness...one cannot let the laundry get over one's head! Thankfully, I had just finished drying all the diaper inserts when it croaked. Phew. It's one thing to be left with some wet towels and dirty T-shirts, it's another thing to be left with dirty diapers. Not good. We do have a laundromat, but when I took a wet load over, every one of the six functioning dryers were being used by one couple...guess they weren't expecting any company on a Friday, late evening.
(I know, this is SO exciting...but wait, there's more!)
I happened to have brought with me my big drying rack, I think because I believed we'd be living on the economy and I kept reading how expensive German utilities were and so--I thought drying my clothes on a rack would be a regular feature of life. So I've been doing tiny loads of laundry all weekend and hanging them to dry on the rack. Just lightweight stuff, socks and undies and pajamas, and rotating the rack in front of the bathroom radiator on high heat. It's working pretty well.
Wow, I'd forgotten how scratchy clothes are that get air-dried. Takes me back to when we would line-dry our clothes all summer (which I'm sure Mom still does)...and those towels that were like sandpaper!
Anyway, the repair person is coming by tomorrow and hopefully I'll get a new dryer or at least one that works. In the meantime, I need to go rotate stuff off the radiator and onto the rack.
And yes, this is the most exciting thing I can think of to blog about right now...sorry!
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