Welcome to speed Round Sunday on the Parenting Roundabout podcast, where we share a
mini episode from our past for your weekend listening pleasure. We'll be back tomorrow
with a brand new episode. Appliances they're kind of a huge deal when you're
an adult, you know, you don't realize that. Yes, it's a
scary young girl when you you know, when you start looking at the the
types of appliances that you need to run a home or to this house and
to this and and I mean I know because I'm sitting here listening to my
dryer bangalone. My daughter keeps telling me or asking when are we gonna get
a new jar. It's like, okay, but it's not body you see
niverse reason, So why don't you tell us about your obin? And yeah,
kids do think that it's kind of like let's just go run down store
and buy a new one, like with the pocket change we got our wallet.
You have to sit down and say, kids, let's look at the
home depot website. How much this is. Let me translate this into you
and your paychecks that you get. So yeah, it's always a big concern
when something needs to go. Our oven came with the house. We moved
here in ninety eight maybe, so who knows how old it is. And
it's always worked okay, but lately it is just sort of taking it upon
itself to decide when it's time to turn it off. So you'll be halfway
through cooking something and you'll go check it and the oven will be off.
So last night my osband was trying to cook something and it's like the oven
kept beeping and he would go and it would be off, and he would
turn it back on and it would He would leave the room and it would
beep again and it would be off, And it's like, clearly a new
oven is in our near future. But to get to the point where we're
going to buy an oven, it has to elbow out all the things above
it on the list. Like our refrigerator has on it the velcro strip we
put on when my son was a little thing and would open the refrigerator,
he'd get into it, and so we put the velcrow strip on it to
supposedly keep it closed. Of course, he learned quickly how to open it
up, and so it was completely a waste. But that bill crow is
still on my refrigerator. So that is how long we have had this refrigerator
since he was you know, just a tiny thing, so obviously that needs
to be replaced. If you if you slam the refrigerator door too hard,
the freezer door pops open and then all the ice cream gets mushy. Our
microwave, I think we've had since we got married, and we just had
our twenty seventh anniversary, so obviously it's obviously probably spewing radiation. Any protective
coating it had is you know, long gone. So like we'll all these
and then as I also mentioned our couch, which is really you know,
a bunch of foam rubber with a few threads over the top. So we
have a long list the last appliances we bought, or the washer and dryer
because they you know, stopped working entirely and themselves up to the top of
the list, and I think the oven is there now. It's just the
thought of going out and buying things and then having them installed is exhausting,
isn't it. It should be fun like this, And I keep thinking,
yeah, I keep thinking. What I want to do is completely redo the
kitchen, after we do the bathroom where the floor is falling in which is
obviously going to be many, many month project. I want to redo my
kitchen, So why am I going to buy an oven now? Because then
I'm gonna have to match everything. You know. It's like I should buy
the oven and the refrigerator in the microwave and the counters and the paint and
the tile. I should do that all at once. But it's never gonna
happen. Stuff is gonna stuf. Finally, say, we've waited long enough,
lady. If you're not redoing your kitchen, we are just pooping out
right now. We're just checking out. We're checking out. It's been nice
so long. You are now married to these footprints for whatever future design you
do. So what's what's up next on your guys lists? Well, we
just last week had to replace the garbage disupposal like it. Oh now that's
a romantic purchases. Yeah, I mean, like you can't even see it.
You can't even see it, but you can't you can't see when the
sink fills up with green water because it's clogged. And I mean it was
for like months it was clogging and jamming, and I would always on clogg
it and on jam it, and you know, like the one time the
plumber came and he showed me the little Alan wrench and oh, you like
twisted in this little spot in the bottom of the garbage disposal to do something
to get it to not jam. So I would do that, and we
would, you know, we figured out all the little ways to make it
work. And then finally I was like, now it's leaking. So that's
the final straw so called, And yeah, I had to get a new
one. So and they said, the plumbers, that did we install it?
I really don't know. Like I said, we had the kitchen was
redone several years ago. I think it we just kept the same one at
that time. Otherwise maybe it was here when we got here. I don't
remember. But then they looked up in their own records and found that they
had installed it. Why don't you just get that at the first place,
because it was clearly much more effective than asking me, why are you relying
on my memory? Right? I know nothing? So yeah, so we
now have a not shiny but new just garbage dispossal. We don't even have
a garbage dispissal. I remember them from my youth, but we don't have
one in the souse or either of our houses. I don't think we call
them garberators. Really. You just put the little thing in the sink and
just throttle all the crumbs morsels of stuff yourself. It's very disgusting. But
or you watch it down and then you have to get the pipe's clue.
Well, so do you what's next on your list now that the all important
garbage disposal purchase has been made? I don't know. Well, actually I
do know. This is not an appliance. But we have been saying for
a long time that we were going to rip out the carpet in my son's
room because it's off white and I don't really love wall to wall carpet in
the first place. It's only that one room, and like I said,
it's a kid's room and it's off white and it's girls bad idea. So
that's on the list. But you know, we had we had gotten an
estimate back when we were redoing the bathroom to have that done, and then
we're like, okay, we can't do this like right now because we're doing
the bathroom. So then I called then, you know, several months after
the bathroom was done, I called the floor guy and he just basically never
call me back, like just no response. Yeah, so we're starting over
with somebody new. So so yeah, well who knows, that could take
a few weeks or a few years time. How about tunical, do you
have any Yuh well, my dryer is definitely on the brink. It's much
like Catherine's garbage disposal disposal in that it breaks down frequently and my husband and
I will actually take the dryer apart and ring it back up again so it
works for another couple of months. And the thing is, it was like
a cheap temper very dryer to begin with that we were just going to get
to make do until we could get a money and it's been like ten years
now. Yeah, and uh so that's definitely on our list. And then
of course the big second item on our list is to redoing redo the flooring
in our house. Much like Catherine, we have carpet that we hate.
And for some reason, I don't know what it's like where you guys live,
but here, carpet in bathrooms is a big thing. Yeah, and
we have carpet in our bathroom and it's so nasty. Oh and I just
yeah, I would not stand for that. Thing out with my bare hands.
So we're kind of we're kind of planning for new flooring. Nice.
Yeah, because all of our other appliances were new when they came with the
house and when we bought the house, and they're still fairly they're okay,
um yeah, that dryer has just gotta go, and that carpet. So
anyway, those are by my big items. I need to say about four.
Have the Australians pay a little pay a little fee when they come to
visit. They put up had a little bowl, you know, a little
tatar. Do they use the dryer to do their laundry when they come through?
There you go, a little coin coin machine right there on it.
Yeah. Or they could pay for their stay by helping me rip out carpet.
There you go. I bet they would do that labor Australians or people
right. Actually, I do have to ask my cousin to help me fix
the vacuum cleaner. So just about things and say we're so glad you're here
to visit us by doing one of these things, right, instead of going
to Disneyland, We're going to rip up carpet. I could bring the card