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Welcome to speed Round Sunday on the
Parenting Roundabout podcast, where we share a

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mini episode from our past for your
weekend listening pleasure. We'll be back tomorrow

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with a brand new episode. Appliances
they're kind of a huge deal when you're

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an adult, you know, you
don't realize that. Yes, it's a

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scary young girl when you you know, when you start looking at the the

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types of appliances that you need to
run a home or to this house and

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to this and and I mean I
know because I'm sitting here listening to my

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dryer bangalone. My daughter keeps telling
me or asking when are we gonna get

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a new jar. It's like,
okay, but it's not body you see

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niverse reason, So why don't you
tell us about your obin? And yeah,

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kids do think that it's kind of
like let's just go run down store

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and buy a new one, like
with the pocket change we got our wallet.

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You have to sit down and say, kids, let's look at the

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home depot website. How much this
is. Let me translate this into you

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and your paychecks that you get.
So yeah, it's always a big concern

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when something needs to go. Our
oven came with the house. We moved

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here in ninety eight maybe, so
who knows how old it is. And

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it's always worked okay, but lately
it is just sort of taking it upon

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itself to decide when it's time to
turn it off. So you'll be halfway

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through cooking something and you'll go check
it and the oven will be off.

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So last night my osband was trying
to cook something and it's like the oven

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kept beeping and he would go and
it would be off, and he would

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turn it back on and it would
He would leave the room and it would

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beep again and it would be off, And it's like, clearly a new

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oven is in our near future.
But to get to the point where we're

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going to buy an oven, it
has to elbow out all the things above

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it on the list. Like our
refrigerator has on it the velcro strip we

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put on when my son was a
little thing and would open the refrigerator,

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he'd get into it, and so
we put the velcrow strip on it to

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supposedly keep it closed. Of course, he learned quickly how to open it

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up, and so it was completely
a waste. But that bill crow is

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still on my refrigerator. So that
is how long we have had this refrigerator

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since he was you know, just
a tiny thing, so obviously that needs

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to be replaced. If you if
you slam the refrigerator door too hard,

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the freezer door pops open and then
all the ice cream gets mushy. Our

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microwave, I think we've had since
we got married, and we just had

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our twenty seventh anniversary, so obviously
it's obviously probably spewing radiation. Any protective

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coating it had is you know,
long gone. So like we'll all these

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and then as I also mentioned our
couch, which is really you know,

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a bunch of foam rubber with a
few threads over the top. So we

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have a long list the last appliances
we bought, or the washer and dryer

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because they you know, stopped working
entirely and themselves up to the top of

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the list, and I think the
oven is there now. It's just the

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thought of going out and buying things
and then having them installed is exhausting,

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isn't it. It should be fun
like this, And I keep thinking,

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yeah, I keep thinking. What
I want to do is completely redo the

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kitchen, after we do the bathroom
where the floor is falling in which is

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obviously going to be many, many
month project. I want to redo my

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kitchen, So why am I going
to buy an oven now? Because then

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I'm gonna have to match everything.
You know. It's like I should buy

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the oven and the refrigerator in the
microwave and the counters and the paint and

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the tile. I should do that
all at once. But it's never gonna

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happen. Stuff is gonna stuf.
Finally, say, we've waited long enough,

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lady. If you're not redoing your
kitchen, we are just pooping out

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right now. We're just checking out. We're checking out. It's been nice

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so long. You are now married
to these footprints for whatever future design you

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do. So what's what's up next
on your guys lists? Well, we

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just last week had to replace the
garbage disupposal like it. Oh now that's

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a romantic purchases. Yeah, I
mean, like you can't even see it.

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You can't even see it, but
you can't you can't see when the

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sink fills up with green water because
it's clogged. And I mean it was

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for like months it was clogging and
jamming, and I would always on clogg

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it and on jam it, and
you know, like the one time the

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plumber came and he showed me the
little Alan wrench and oh, you like

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twisted in this little spot in the
bottom of the garbage disposal to do something

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to get it to not jam.
So I would do that, and we

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would, you know, we figured
out all the little ways to make it

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work. And then finally I was
like, now it's leaking. So that's

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the final straw so called, And
yeah, I had to get a new

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one. So and they said,
the plumbers, that did we install it?

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I really don't know. Like I
said, we had the kitchen was

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redone several years ago. I think
it we just kept the same one at

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that time. Otherwise maybe it was
here when we got here. I don't

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remember. But then they looked up
in their own records and found that they

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had installed it. Why don't you
just get that at the first place,

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because it was clearly much more effective
than asking me, why are you relying

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on my memory? Right? I
know nothing? So yeah, so we

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now have a not shiny but new
just garbage dispossal. We don't even have

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a garbage dispissal. I remember them
from my youth, but we don't have

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one in the souse or either of
our houses. I don't think we call

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them garberators. Really. You just
put the little thing in the sink and

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just throttle all the crumbs morsels of
stuff yourself. It's very disgusting. But

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or you watch it down and then
you have to get the pipe's clue.

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Well, so do you what's next
on your list now that the all important

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garbage disposal purchase has been made?
I don't know. Well, actually I

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do know. This is not an
appliance. But we have been saying for

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a long time that we were going
to rip out the carpet in my son's

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room because it's off white and I
don't really love wall to wall carpet in

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the first place. It's only that
one room, and like I said,

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it's a kid's room and it's off
white and it's girls bad idea. So

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that's on the list. But you
know, we had we had gotten an

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estimate back when we were redoing the
bathroom to have that done, and then

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we're like, okay, we can't
do this like right now because we're doing

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the bathroom. So then I called
then, you know, several months after

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the bathroom was done, I called
the floor guy and he just basically never

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call me back, like just no
response. Yeah, so we're starting over

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with somebody new. So so yeah, well who knows, that could take

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a few weeks or a few years
time. How about tunical, do you

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have any Yuh well, my dryer
is definitely on the brink. It's much

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like Catherine's garbage disposal disposal in that
it breaks down frequently and my husband and

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I will actually take the dryer apart
and ring it back up again so it

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works for another couple of months.
And the thing is, it was like

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a cheap temper very dryer to begin
with that we were just going to get

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to make do until we could get
a money and it's been like ten years

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now. Yeah, and uh so
that's definitely on our list. And then

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of course the big second item on
our list is to redoing redo the flooring

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in our house. Much like Catherine, we have carpet that we hate.

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And for some reason, I don't
know what it's like where you guys live,

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but here, carpet in bathrooms is
a big thing. Yeah, and

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we have carpet in our bathroom and
it's so nasty. Oh and I just

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yeah, I would not stand for
that. Thing out with my bare hands.

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So we're kind of we're kind of
planning for new flooring. Nice.

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Yeah, because all of our other
appliances were new when they came with the

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house and when we bought the house, and they're still fairly they're okay,

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um yeah, that dryer has just
gotta go, and that carpet. So

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anyway, those are by my big
items. I need to say about four.

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Have the Australians pay a little pay
a little fee when they come to

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visit. They put up had a
little bowl, you know, a little

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tatar. Do they use the dryer
to do their laundry when they come through?

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There you go, a little coin
coin machine right there on it.

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Yeah. Or they could pay for
their stay by helping me rip out carpet.

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There you go. I bet they
would do that labor Australians or people

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right. Actually, I do have
to ask my cousin to help me fix

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the vacuum cleaner. So just about
things and say we're so glad you're here

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to visit us by doing one of
these things, right, instead of going

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to Disneyland, We're going to rip
up carpet. I could bring the card