Had a great time last night. The Savannah Music Festival has been hosting bands around the city for the last few weeks but also charging for admission. Last night they hosted a band to play in the �Central Park� of the city and allowed people to spread out blankets, bring food and drinks and listen to the music for free. There were about 3-400 people who came last night. It was a treat. On the financial front- I didn�t spend any money at all even though I spent several hours with friends drinking and eating. Love it when you can bring your own!
I think our refrigerator is on its way out. It sporadically starts making loud noises and then randomly will return back to the normal level of noise that fridges make. 2 friends of mine work in an appliance store so I asked them if they could beat the $300 Lowes deal I found for the upstairs rental unit a few months ago. They couldn�t, but explained that if I tip the fridge onto its back and use a leaf blower to clean the coils underneath- that might fix it. Apparently underneath is where the fridge �breathes� and pet hair/dust/bugs clog it up. The appliance store makes a fortune accepting �non working� fridges and cleaning the coils only to have the fridge last another lifetime and reselling it as a used item. So- tip- clean the coils before you toss a fridge. My friend said to wait an hour or so before plugging it back in once it is rightside up again�this gives the freon time to drain back down into the fridge. I am not so sure I have the strength to go around tipping over fridges and lying them on their back�but we�ll see.BB & I each put $100 a month towards �1st house Expenses� so we have money for a new fridge if we need it.
The kids upstairs are vacating the upstairs rental at the end of May, so I wanted to use the savings to lay down new carpeting and repair plaster, maybe some painting before I rent it out again. I was planning to use just about all the savings for those items�but guess I might need to squeeze out a fridge too!
And in other news�one of my New Years goal was to save up $13,840 towards an eventual renovation of the CA property�whenever the tenant decides to leave that condo�and I am only $1300 short of the goal! I am just gonna keep going at my current savings pace and see how far I can get.
Appliances, Savings & Concerts
April 16th, 2010 at 02:14 pm
April 17th, 2010 at 03:51 am 1271472676
trying it by yourself sounds like a recipe for injury.
April 17th, 2010 at 02:30 pm 1271511021
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:12 pm 1272057157
Anyway, it's been 2 years since our fridge "stopped working" and we learned this from a service repair guy. So, last night the fridge stopped working. We looked underneath and it was just filled with dust - so that's what we were doing late last night. I should be glad we don't have to tip ours over to clean it. It is probably a good idea to pull it out and vaccum around the coils too, though. I swear my dh told me we had to clean behind (2 years ago), but last night he said "underneath," so I thought of you.
We will start cleaning it out every year, to avoid disaster (food spoilage). I Was relieved that was it, for last night! & just wanted to point out that in some fridges, it isn't very complicated.