It's true. My camera never left its holder this week. Even when there was a sky writing message advertising an airshow right above our house, and Liam came inside screaming that the clouds had turned to letters. Didn't take a picture of it. **Sigh.**
Still it's FRIDAY and FRIDAY means FOTOS! So I'm giving you a row of Google (all hail!) photos to admire. I call this compilation "Stuff I Could Have Bought for the $575 I Paid the Plumber on Saturday".....
5.2 tandem sky diving jumps.
38.3 large Embarcadero pizzas from Pier 49 Pizza
575 of any of these lovely dollar store items (tax not included)
10.4 Salsa Dance Lessons. And the studio even mentioned in big letters that I didn't need a partner. I guess that means they'd have a broom or a mannequin for me to dance with. Maybe another lone woman....
This makes me the most angry of all. For my $575 dollars, plus $215 more that I'm sure I could find in change beneath my couch cushions---I could have gotten these GORGEOUS shoes and checked off #11
BUT NOOOOOOOO.....
Instead for my hard earned cash, I got a sweaty older gentleman who made me pull many heavy things out of my coat closet so he could access my crawl space, climb around under there for a few hours, come back out and give me the creeps by telling me about all the weird stuff the previous owners were so kind to abandon under there, and two new these:
Except not these exactly (though I could have gotten 14.275 of these pretty hummingbird ones, uninstalled...). I just got two plain, ugly outdoor faucets. (Ones that won't drip 5 gallons of water a day.) ~~ And a big hole in my emergency savings.~~
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But, really, who could put a price tag on the charming company of a plumber? ------ I can: $575.
Happy Friday. :)
***Hey! I just saw that Aubrey has pictures of my kids and I up on her blog. I'll count those as my for real Friday Fotos!
32 comments:
I don't know what looks yummier - the pizza or the shoes!!! Sorry to hear about the plumber. It takes so much $$$ to maintain a house!
That s.u.c.k.s. you had to leak so much money. That sounds like the time I paid over $400 to some losers who really wanted $1300 (eventually) for cleaning our air ducts and furnace, but our house still stinks that unidentifiable, mysterious, disgusting smell.
Yes, sometimes I really hate my house, and am getting hives thinking about another long, snowed-in winter. It's just. so. small. And it wants all. my. money.
Luckily all the nightmare freeway merging is south of us. I better go buy some Tobacco Road...
Uh yes, I want your purse when you die. You should see what I finally bought for a new diaper bag. A Land's End medium-sized tote bag. Guess what sold me? Their claim that it fit the same amount of a brown grocery sack. Call me the bag-lady, I'm turning into my grandmother (whom I dearly love, but oh man, her 53 lb. purse!)
We recently had to replace an outdoor faucet. That was $300 gone, add in the new water heater ($750) and a new faucet ($150) in one of our bathrooms and our plumber is off on a beach vacation.
That hummingbird one is kind of cute.
That does blow! When you put it into prospective as to what you are missing out on, it blows even more.
You just reminded me why I love renting...lately I've been contemplating trying to buy our house from the landlord. But maybe not.
That pizza...yum!
I always hate spending money on things like that. I was so happy when we bought our house but then I hate having to put so much money into the 'not fun' parts of it. It's the same thing with my car. I hate spending money on car upkeep.
We recently had to replace a part on our water heater. Things like this make me wonder why on earth we bought a house, especially with the housing market! Ugh. Thank heavens for savings right? Although, I HATE dipping into it! Have fun at co-op without me today!
you poor dear! it really is too bad that we don't live closer. my dad is a plumber--plumbers have a habit of ripping people off-- A LOT--it is something that my dad has a hard time with...he is extremely honest about prices and labor---seriously, oh so sorry for you!
This reminds me of the welome to Washington gift we got last fall when a huge branch impaled our roof--in the pouring rain. We had to pay an emergency roofer $600 to fix it when I have five--count them--FIVE--brothers who all roof. . .in Idaho.
We had to call a plumber in 2 days in a row, for the same issue. Couldn't number 1 have fixed the whole problem. The 2nd time was on a Sunday. Totally not happy about that. And not cheap either. Add to that, it happened the day after I had surgery, so I was already feeling the money pinch :(
Remember my leaking toilet post? That I never expanded on? I was to upset over the whole thing to ever post the details. I refused to pay the plumber like JArom told me to, and just tried to fix it myself. Note, tried is the key word. AFter 7 hours with no water in the house, flooding my bathroom, pulling up and replacing the pad in my bedroom, and ending up in tears, I should have just called the plumber. (But, I'll have you know it got fixed. With a little help from Jarom. He was so irritated with me.)
Oh don't ya just HATE spending money on things like that! UGGHH! So sorry. Man those shoes are KEY UTE! (that's my elongated version of cute!) At least your money won't literally be going down the drain since your all fixed up...there's hope for the shoes after all :) Happy weekend!
Plumbing is one of those curses in our lives that we just get the shaft on. Why is it so hard to find a non, creepy, crack exposing plumber? I do not think that your guy was like that but the ones that I have had to deal with are that way and you get to the point that you will pay anything to get them out of your house cause you are spooked!!!
So sorry that you that much lighter. I would love to join you for a 49th street pizza. I am coming up for the big Womens' run walk thing on the 20th. So maybe I see you in the melee of woman on Saturday morning.
that is so funny all the things you'd like to have for that money! Crazy shoes! could you ever? Even if you had the money?
We just had a plumber to one of our rentals for the tune of $375 because the lady and her three teenage daughters had put a few too many tampons down the system. Lovely!
I know...it's hard being house poor. We are going through the process to get a new roof and I am sure it will be pretty, but I could think of so many other things to do with that $500 deductible. I would buy purses and shoes and clothes and have my hair highlighted.
LOL. I'm just wondering how many dollars that Salsa dancer spent to get that tan!?! Wow.
Ahhhhh sky diving! Don't think I am ever going to try that out, what if something totally went wrong and you just keep falling....oh boy. But at the same time it looks quite fun.
Hey the song thats playing on your blog right now is one I used to listen to all the time! You do have very good taste in music, I must say.
What is it with the cost of plumbers???!!!
I love the shoes.
Just found your blog and I love it. I had to laugh and what you could of bought. Those shoes are great but I would break my neck in them :0)
Oh dear.
Those plumbers, they must have cash lined pockets and toilet seats of gold after what they charge their clients.
We had to have an outside water pipe fixed and it cost $800. The agony!
So, again--- I am sorry.
Maybe I should go back to school to be a plumber.
What a great blog! I hate you because now I am book marking you and will continue to waste my life reading blogs, blogs, and more fabuloous blogs!
When we bought our house a year ago, the thing I loved about it (besides the back yard) was that it was updated. New bathrooms, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, a finished basement. And over the course of this year, I cannot tell you how much money we have poured into correcting the mistakes of the previous homeowners. Who obviously did all the work themselves. Without consulting the instructions. Plumbers. Electricians. Tile guys. You name it. They've been here.
What's an emergency fund? :-)
UGH...ugh. Oh, that's JUST the worst, and SOOOoooo good of you that you HAD an emergency fund! Good for you! Soooo not fun that you have to build it back up again...trudge, trudge.
I'm so curious about the creepy things left under the house. Well, maybe not.
Well, at least you didn't get the shoes that would of caused you to fall and break your neck, leaving you with bigger bills.
I want a humming bird faucet! How cool are they!
You also could have gotten a one way ticket to Hawaii...I'm jsut sayin.
Was he cute at least?? You know how plumbers tend to be really really hot??
Mama--
Sweaty. Older. Gentleman.
Miki--
It was assorted very, very old canned food. I guess it's fitting because they also abandoned stuff in our attic and outdoor shed as well. Love "For Sale By Owner" properties!--no realtor to go to back for you and make sure all the junk is gone. Ah well! I guess I have something to hypothetically survive on in case it's needed! :)
Plumbers are blood suckers! We had a plumber come and give us a similar quote and I said "no way" and just figured it out myself and did it.
I enjoyed all the possibilities you came up with. Very fun to think about!
we had a plumber this week too and it wasn't fun. We also had a backyard fiasco and a nice $1000 down the tube. Not exactly my idea of a fun week.
UGHHHH! I hate having to spend money on things like plumbing...such unsatisfying purchases!
Oh, how stinky! Buying things like plumbing just doesn't give you the kind of high going shoe shopping does, huh?
About that picture of the dancers .. the lady dancer .. her arms are really frightening. I'm just saying. :o)
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