About a month ago, our 16-year-old Kenmore Elite HE3t washing machine had a little mental breakdown. It just refused to finish a cycle without having to be stopped and restarted multiple times. Since I have a life, and can’t babysit a washing machine all day, […]

Hello, all! It’s time again for another installment of “Hey! The Dryer’s Not Working!” In this episode, the dryer sneakily gave every appearance of drying our clothes, tumbling happily and making heavy, thumpy dryer noises. Alas, when the end-of-cycle beep sounded and we opened the […]

Three weeks ago, I had never even heard of a “heat pump condenser contactor”, and now here I am writing a post about it! What happened three weeks ago? Well, my husband came home to find that the temperature downstairs in our house was around […]

Monday night, we were watching TV when we heard the washing machine go beep … beep … beep … beep. That’s the noise that it makes when something is wrong. When I went to check it, I found that the cycle had finished, but the […]

This weekend, I got a lot accomplished. While that may not sound like a big deal to you, it is a big deal for me. You see, usually I head into the weekend with a long wish list of Things I Want To Get Done. […]

As it turns out, my optimism about the improved water heater efficiency was short-lived. The next day, I went to shower and ran out of hot water! I came downstairs, and the water heater had no power. My first thought was that the circuit breaker […]