eagleeyedtiger

In dishwasher news, our dishwasher still seems to work however we seem to have lost the hydraulics? spring? that keeps the door from dropping fully open. I guess we can still live with it for now, just have to be careful when opening it.

I see. Only thing it's a big hassle to take it to the recycling place here, not sure it fits in our car and no tow bar either. I did find out that it's only $30 for Heathcotes to do old appliance removal if I buy through them though.

Haha I have heard before you can get the Ecosa mattresses cheaper by looking for the returned ones at salvation army stores. Not sure if that's still the case. Anyway I'd prefer full latex vs memory foam type which we've had for a long time already. I don't know I feel kind of bad to give an unsupportive mattress away to someone knowing they'll be waking up with sore backs sooner or later 😂

Heathcotes (local to me) has a Series 6 for $1699 currently, however I need to actually confirm our old one is broken.. we haven't used it since the other night. Do you remember where you bought your Miele from?

I don't think it comes or goes back through the normal couriers 😂I know the likes of Ecosa usually just donate the returned mattresses to the salvation army and just get them to pick it up in their trucks. We're thinking of getting a latex one from peacelily.co.nz. And also trying to figure out how to dispose of our old mattress if we do keep it!

Oh man I'd love a Miele one but don't know if I can justify the cost. Some of the Bosch Series 6 dishwashers seem decently priced at the moment. I mean if we could live for the last 6 years with a 20 year old one, we probably don't need a top of the line one. I just got to make sure whoever delivers it can remove the old one, as I have no way to dispose of it.

Yeah been thinking about the bed for the last couple months and really want to get it sorted. Nothing fancy, just need a mattress. I just want to make sure it's really firm. Probably going to try one of the online ones that have 100 day trials so I can return if we're not happy. No $10K beds for us, no thank you 😂. We also just switched to buckwheat pillows to see if it helps, I like them as I used one when I was younger, but it hasn't alleviated the back pains.

I think some other brands of Air Fryers have the ability to control fan speed, but they're probably more expensive. To be honest I really don't rate most Russell Hobbs small appliances. We got a food steamer a couple of years ago for less than $50, but it's RRP is like $129! With the quality and simplicity of it, $50 was already pushing it haha

Ours is one of the Ninja dual drawer ones, it has a reheat function which seems to use less air flow. I successfully reheated pizza and made toast without it flying around! or it might be that the buckets are smaller.

I'm pretty sure it's my fault as I said either earlier this year or maybe last year that I wish the dishwasher would die so we could get a new one. It came with the house and I'm certain it's from the early 2000's or even the original when the house was built in 2000. It's so damn loud when it's running.

I don't know how much longer we can wait for a new mattress 😅 Both of us have been getting sore backs and bad sleeps for the last couple of years already, to the point we almost always have tight or sore back when we wake up now. Trying to find something really firm, but they're all so expensive 😒

We got an air fryer over Xmas to replace our little benchtop oven and I have to say it was definitely worth it. Should have done it sooner!

Also our probably 20 year old dishwasher may have broke last night and we also need to replace our 15 year old mattress.. sigh.. why can't I get lots of money for doing nothing

Well today you can do "I haven't showered since last year!"

Well Happy New Year everyone! If you're still here..

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope all your desires are fulfilled and your holidays are filled with happiness😁

To be fair it's only one so far..

I definitely saw many "Black Friday is coming" emails in Oct. Black Friday has turned into either Black November or Black week or basically multiple sales throughout all of November.

It's not even Christmas yet and I'm already getting Boxing Day Sale emails!

I'm so glad I tinted our bedroom window last week, the afternoon sun blazing in usually makes it unbearably hot. Now it's just plain hot even with the curtains closed. It's a reflective tint so we also get some privacy as well as our neighbour is having some work done on their pool and have ripped out every single tree and hedge around it that was blocking the view from their two storey house. I've picked up more to tint the kids rooms this week too.