I have to brag on K for a few minutes - he's become quite the Mr Fix It. Neither of us are very handy and so we are always so surprised when something we do actually works - I think he may have to admit to himself he IS handy now!!
Our blender had been leaking for a while, not a lot but it was definitely getting worse and was making a mess when we'd use it -- we use it a lot since we blend veggies for soups (its a texture thing). Anyway, I'd resigned myself to having to buy a new one -- way back we'd tried to buy just the glass pitcher and couldn't find it so I figured parts weren't sold separately. He kept at it, and found a way to buy the gasket and blade assembly and we figured out how to swap it out, and its like a new blender! it cost $15 instead of $100+. I also love that it allowed us to only replace what was really wrong and not toss an entire blender in the trash. I'm far from green but really do try to 'reduce, reuse, recycle'.
His other accomplishment was huge! Our refrigerator is still fairly new and it infuriated us that the ice machine has never worked well.... we even had a repair man come out when it was under warranty and he did nothing and told us he guessed people in the country it was made in didn't use ice....what?!?! ridiculous.
So we've gone on for years with ice trays, buying bags of ice and being annoyed (our old fridge had the water line FREEZE in the door, so we were used to ice/water dispensers in the door not working). K did some research and found that ice maker is known to have issues, he ordered a new one, installed it (all by himself I never even saw the part) and suddenly we have ice to spare! Why we waited so long, I'll never know, but I love it....We tossed the ice trays.....
It really is the little things that make my day, I'll drink more water now since I like it cold and he can have real 'iced' tea which he loves!!
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