So, I have the week off from work for a needed vacation and was hoping to chill out at home for a few days and get some minor projects done. Then on Friday, I was going to take the wife and kid up to Great Wolf Lodge for a long weekend of water parks, MagiQuest, and family fun.
Instead, my central air conditioning has been fucked up since last Saturday. After two house calls, it turns out my AC coil inside is fucked and leaking coolant. My outside unit is also on it's last leg, meaning I have to replace the whole fucking thing. Total bill = $4400
Also, in February, my gas furnace went to shit. Actually had cracks in the heat exchanger and had to be replaced. That total bill = $4700. When that went I also redid all the duct work in the attic, put in some more insulation, and redid the seal to the exhaust up on the roof. Total bill = $700
For the first 1/2 of 2011, I've had to pay out about 10k in home repairs. Fuck my life. No vacations this year.
So entertain me with stories of costly repairs, be they home, auto, or whatever. Anything to make me feel like not wanting to go on some type of rampage near my home or burn the fucker down. Stupid fucking need to live indoors.
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and had the money to take care of it
Give it time, one day you'll own a money trap and have just enough money to spend it all on said money trap.
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I'm doing just fine without it
Once when I was about eleven I was in my room when my dad yelled "ANDREW GET DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!" I was fucking scared because I thought he was going to yell at me, but when I went into the back room he was next to the radiator trying to stop water going everywhere. He'd been draining the air from the system but the water pressure was too high or some shit, and water had just shot out like a hose all over the place.
His next words were "GET A FUCKING CARROT," which I thought was strange, until I realised he wanted me to get a carrot that he could then jam into the hole and stop the water coming out. I ran into the kitchen and saw that there were no carrots, but there were potatoes, which to my eleven year old mind was the next best thing. So I got one and came back in and when I gave it to my dad he looked at me with an expression that said "what the fuck am I supposed to do with this, Son?"
Anyway eventually we carefully placed an oven tray under the spot where the water was landing and let it fill up.
Never heard my dad yell so loud in my life. He told me not to tell mum what had happened, and I was like "sure." Even today though, I remember my Dad looking over his shoulder, wild eyed and covered in water, screaming for me to get a fucking carrot. Which is pretty funny given that my dad is not a big guy and looks exactly like the music teacher he is.
I want to buy within the year
Timeline for this years renovations : 8 weeks
Actual expenditure on renovations: $130,000
Actual time to completion: 11 weeks, 5 week downtime, 1 week.
oh okay
Sometimes someone on my floor doesn't close the communal fridge all the way, and then we have spoiled milk and shitty smelling beer.
That really sucks.
Haha
Knew someone would say something like that
Renting was a lot easier.
If I were you, I'd start punching myself in the throat every month or two to get prepared.
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until things go wrong then ffffffffff
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You and me, Berk.
Separate yurts, though.
Gonna be pretty funny, I suspect
I'm so sorry that I've finished school, got married, and have put in about a dozen years in a 50+ hour a week job. How dare I be upset that my largest investment to date has taken a 10k dump on my chest in the last 5 months or so.
Go fuck yourself. In the face. Do it in a first world way though, with lube.
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buuugh
whats sad is that my little condo will cost more than most houses
Shit-on-a-bear-shower-in-a-drainage-ditch kPa.
it's so much cheaper
You should be poor and miserable, not un-poor and miserable. That would send the wrong kinda message to the poor.
get over yourself
meanwhile one of my games on steam didn't download right
They are two sides of the same shitty coin.
Honestly, the labor is only like 10 to 20%, it's the new equipment plus the proper disposal of the old equipment that's the big part of the cost. Also, I can do things like fix a seal in the toilet, put in a new garbage disposal, fix drywall, and other minor to medium repairs. I do not want to fuck with HVAC. That's out of my league.
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Right here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99kssHaD_yY