Let me explain. Recently, a cat decided that our sandbox was the perfect litter box. So this weekend, I shoveled all the sand out. Mike bleached the sandbox and next, the kids and I will put new sand back in.
Cost: $45
We recently got a new HOA management company along with an almost $3 increase in our dues. Along with that we got 2 letters, not 1, but 2 letters from them saying we had to pull our weeds and fix our side gate. So the past couple of weeks, Ava, Mike and I have been pulling weeds. Cost $0, just sore thumbs.
We had to replace the wood slates and spray paint the rusty side gate too. That was actually a fun job. I got to stain the wood pieces and I love me some home projects. It was just what I needed. Mike did the spray painting and cutting of the wood. Cost $66. But priceless for the both of us.
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| Gate Before |
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| Gate After |
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| Side by side comparison. The neighbors is how ours used to look and ours is the beautiful after!1 |
On Monday of last week, I ran the dishwasher at night. When I went to unload it, I thought that maybe someone interrupted the cycle because the dishes weren't clean, so I ran it again, only to find out that it was not working. Mike tried to fix it, but it didn't work. Mind you, this dishwasher has been on it's last leg for a year, so I can't complain. We went to Lowes on Wednesday night and bought a brand spanking new one only to find out that the life of a dishwasher is really only 5 years. SUCK!! Cost of the actual dishwasher $808. Cost to mama: Major dish pan hands until ours arrives.
Last night I woke up for whatever reason and realized that I didn't hear the AC fan running. (I leave it on at night for circulation and background noise). When I went to check it, I couldn't hear anything, so I cooled it down a degree to kick it on and waited. Nothing. I realized that it was dunzo. We just replaced the outside unit less than 2 years ago. I woke Mike up and we ended up turning it off for the night. We called some Heating/Cooling people to come and give us an estimate and just as I had expected, the blower motor went out. Cost to replace the parts $880. It had to get done, but we really need to replace the whole unit which can be anywhere from $1800-$3500 and we really need our duct work redone. We have 2 rooms in the house that really don't get any air and the guy said it is because it is a track house and they did a shotty job installing it. That will be about $5000 to fix. UHHH, that will all have to wait. Let's just add it to my list of things to do with our money for the house.
I also was able to clean the ENTIRE house this morning. Yes, the ENTIRE house. That never happens. I have been trying to clean one major room a day on the weekdays. It doesn't always get done because life gets in they way, but I was determined. Plus, Mike has been sick and not wanting to work out which leaves more time to get stuff done. I even steam cleaned the floors!!
It has been an expensive but rewarding week/weekend. Oh yeah, did I mention that this was the first year since we bought the house that we decided NOT to renew our home warranty. We figured that we already replaced the AC unit, what else is there? Yeah, the other half of the AC unit!!! Oh well. we live and learn.
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