The Three Stages of Appliance Shopping
When it rains, it pours.
Bad things come in threes.
The bread always falls on its buttered side.
I bet you’ve never heard that last one! MAN, The Bohlen family has HAD A TIME…and I mean HAD. A. TIME. Ben will swear to you that he is the most unlucky person in the world. I think he’s definitely towards the top of that list. 😂
Our bout of insanity started in the kitchen with the discovery of our dishwasher leaking. I noticed some drops of water on the floor, but I thought it was from me being sloppy with flopping the dishes from the sink to the dishwasher. 🤷♀️ Come to find out, it was a leak. Ben had just worked on painting our fireplace (yassss, I’ll write a post about our dining room makeover soon). I felt so bad that he thought he was going to get to relax for the rest of the night and BAM! Norma and Dale struck again! If you haven’t been following along, Norma and Dale were the previous owners of our house. I like to think they feel our wrath all the way over in Kentucky when we shake our fists in the air and curse their name.
A broken dishwasher isn’t the end of the world. I got two hands…I can handwash! Ben shopped around for dishwashers that same day. He brought home a nice white Maytag one from Menards. We had to run to a birthday party, so we weren’t able to open it right away. When we got home, we discovered a niiiiice big dent on the front of the new dishwasher. We ended up taking it back and bought another one from a small appliance shop in Rantoul. They delivered for free on the same day, and had a white one in stock.
We went with white because all of our other appliances are white. And surprisingly, white is more expensive. I’ve heard it’s making a come-back, so hopefully that’s true! 🤞 It would have been nice to upgrade to stainless steel, but we weren’t replacing the rest of the appliances…
While Ben was installing it, he said, “Man, watch the refrigerator go out after I get this in.” And in no truer words, three days later our fridge broke! Ben and I laughed like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde because WHAT. ARE. THE. CHANCES! Seriously! I told Ben I need him to state outloud that I will wake up the next day and be skinny! 🤣 Because apparently the man has the power to make his words come true!
UPDATE: I did not wake up skinny. 😂
After we regained our sanity, we bought a new white fridge from the same guy we bought the dishwasher from. He delivered it and we let out a big sigh. FINALLY, we can be back to normal instead of living out of cooler bags and a small beer fridge.
The universe said, “nah, dudes.”
The new fridge didn’t cool down, so it was also broken. What are the odds, people? Good thing I didn’t go out and buy all of my groceries again! The man had to come back and haul it away. We were back on the hunt for a new fridge.
The following visual story is called “The Three Stages of Appliance Shopping” as told by Waylin Kenzi Bohlen. The story took place on September 21st, 2019 at Home Depot.
STAGE 1:
“WOW! Look at all these new refrigerators! They have sooo many! Oooh! This one is so pretty! This is so fun!”
STAGE 2:
Oh, man. There’s a lotttttt of options. This is getting overwhelming.”
STAGE 2.5:
“Ugh. For the LOVE OF CHEESE, can you just pick one already?”
STAGE 3:
“It doesn’t come in white? I’m going to lose my freaking mind!”
THE END.
Well, actually the story came to an end a week later when our new fridge was delivered and it worked! Sweet baby, Jesus…thank you! 🙏
