Washing Machine Drama

Sometimes, I think life would be so much easier, if I wasn't such a planner.  I mean, to buy a washing machine, took me hours and hours of research.

• Talking to people in the office, back home, on the internet
• Buying a subscription to Consumer Reports to get other reviews
• Research online reviews, exhaustively
• Looked at warranties that come with the item

Then, realized that these are so different than the 13 year old one currently have, that we should get the matching dryer as well, because that is also 13 years old and who knows if we can find a matching one when that one goes.  so...

• Research dryers, and make sure they are good as well.  Don't want to buy a good washing machine, but the dryer suck

Decide on what we want.  Got prices in Cinci at the Home Depot, but didn't buy.   Went to Lowes to see if it's cheaper - they don't have it, it was discontinued, they have the newer model.   Go to Sears Appliance, they don't have it, but they have the newer model.    Researched the newer model - it's crap, went to Home Depot in town, they don't have the other model either in the color we want, AND the color we don't want is $200 cheaper each (so $400 total). 


Went to Amazon to see what's there.  They have the model we want, but also another model that we're interested in.   Decide to go with the original model we wanted.  Went to Giant Eagle, got $1k in gift cards (for gas points), and then put the rest on our credit card.   Whew, we bought a washer/dryer set.


Next morning, phone call.  That set is no longer in the warehouse, but we have the upgraded one.  (Uhm, no, that has crappy reviews).   I ask for the other set, that we were debating about last night, the same company has it online at Amazon.  Nope, that's not available either - but we DO have this one....    OK, well, I need to research it, I'll call you back....


..... 20 minutes later - appears to be a good set.  I call back - phone lines are down.  I try for 45 minutes, all lines are down. Were we duped?  I send email through Amazon.   20 minutes later, the guy calls me back. 


So I believe - that we will be getting a WT7600HKA (unfortunately, it's black in color).  The electric dryer that matches should be a pretty good one too (after all, I did the research).  


The prices were the same for us, so I surely do hope this works out.


I wish I were one to just buy one from the store because I liked the way it looked.  *sigh*  that would be so much easier, and who knows which one would actually last longer? 

Spontaneous Movie Night!

I did something that is completely out of character for me.  I convinced Adam, on a work night, to take us to the drive in movie theater, for the first time ever!  The kids have been begging to see Captain Underpants for months now (ever since they knew a movie was being made) so we got home from Cinci, took about 10 minutes in the house to get the kids in their pajamas and we were off.  (Still not telling them where we were going).   We got there and the kids were SO excited to learn what we were doing.   The movie began at 9:30.   The boys laughed so hard, they loved it.  We were having a good time, and decided that we'd stay for the second movie, Wonder Woman.  It was fantastic.  So good, Ares even stayed awake (movie ended at 1:40AM).   The only bad thing about the evening was all the mosquitos at the very beginning.  It was bad, but we didn't realize HOW bad until the next day.   For 4 years, I kept bug spray in my car.  I'm not sure what happened to it this week.