My new amazing dryer.

It’s a funny story.

A week ago Tim and I were hanging out in the living room after I finished teaching for the night.  It was unusual, because we were both sitting quietly doing our own thing.  No T.V. on and no computer shows.   Just quiet.

Out of nowhere Tim says, “Did you hear that?”

“No.”

“Listen…”

“um… Oh!  I can hear it now!  What is that?”

After much debate and listening and knocking on the walls and going upstairs and then back down… we determined there was something in our ceiling.  We’re not sure what.  It sounded a lot bigger than it probably was… but it kinda freaked us out.

I was envisioning a giant squirrel.  Who was going to somehow make his way out of the vent and into our bedroom that night as we slept.  Crazy?  Well, maybe–but I’m telling you it sounded big!

Apparently I wasn’t the only one with a crazy imagination because Tim slept HORRIBLY that night.  He kept waking up at every sound thinking it was the animal–finally finding it’s way out of the ceiling somewhere else in the house.

Trust me this is part of the story of our new dryer.  At this point you’re probably thinking “what?” but hang in there.

So, Tim slept HORRIBLY.  And I slept quite poorly since he slept badly.  So first thing the next morning Tim announces that he’s going to Lowe’s to buy rodent poison and he’s going to screw the heating vents to the floor (just to be safe).  🙂

In a bit of a hurry, he made his way into Lowe’s and picked out all the items he wanted.  On a whim, he decided to walk down the clearance appliance aisle just to see what was there…

…and there it was.  This amazing dryer.   And at an amazing price.

So he called me.  We talked about it for a bit and decided that we could make another trip back to the store so I could look at it too.    It really was as nice at it looked in the picture he had sent to my phone.  All of the other clearance items were open box / floor models, but this one had a note saying there was another one in the back new and in the box.  We talked to the salesman to make sure it would be the same price as listed on the floor model even though it was new and he said, “yup, it’s that price, oh and don’t forget that it qualifies for the additional 20% off, too.”  We smiled and said thanks (and pretended like we already knew that) and then walked away.  When out of ear shot we both looked at each other with the same, “did you hear that?  TWENTY % off the price listed?  That’s AWESOME!”

So, we decided it was too good of a deal to pass up.  Our washer and dryer have been a headache since we moved in (if you’ve been keeping up with my blog, you can probably recall how many times I’ve talked about the repair man coming again and again and again to fix different things).  So we are delighted to have a reliable machine again!

This is actually the dryer from my “dream laundry room.”  In my mind my dream laundry room would look a little something like this…

I just adore the clean look and natural light!

And since I know you’re all dying to know… The price of the dryer was originally $1,000.  The cheapest Tim could find it online was $850.  We bought it for $370 including taxes, delivery AND haul-away!  If we move in the near future we are DEFINITELY taking it with us!  🙂

So, to recap.  Quiet evening = animal invasion = trip to Lowe’s = amazingly cheap dryer.