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[SmilingGecko]

Thats great @hanami I'm so happy for you with your overall health and vitality now! Yes after having major challenges myself I view health as a gift. I'm just happy every day that I can enjoy life to whatever extent I am allowed. But what you have achieved is really of great credit to you. Sometimes we just need that wake-up call to get our mojo on and move in a better direction. But you've really done well. That is a real achievement. You must be so proud of yourself. I know I would be! 🙂

[hanami]

Aw thank you @SmilingGecko . That's so nice of you to say. When you point it out like that, yes I am proud. I guess I just don't think about it too much these days. I definitely should remind myself of it if I'm having a bad day though!x

[Historylover]

Phew, I'm exhausted, @SmilingGecko. I read that refrigerators run more efficiently and less costly if the grill at the back isn't covered in dust. Things like that always get me to thinking about my own which I know is heavily laden in sticky dust. So I have just taken a leap of faith and taken it off and given it a good dusting. Not perfect, of course, as I was nervous that I would have to call a repair man to put it back on, but all went well...a few minutes waiting for it to start up again and Voila! Such self-reliance. It does my heart good.

At least you won't be worried about such things with your new fridge, @SmilingGecko. Nothing like a nice new appliance. I bought a new clock radio on the Saturday of the Black Friday weekend and it has beaten me. The alarm comes on with the wrong station and try as I might I just can't fix it. I used to have to get up to put my old one on the station (static) before I could lie in for another 20 minutes, and I thought a new one would be bliss. Now I have to get up to change the station. It's giving me nightmares. If I'd kept the docket, I'd take it back, but I also have destroyed my debit card because I have since closed the bank account and I don't feel like getting into an argument. So the instructions sit on the cupboard waiting for me to have the patience to study them again and again until I figure out what I'm doing wrong. Grrr! Technology!!!

My posts take ages to upload, do yours?

[TAB]

Got it @StuF 

[SmilingGecko]

Hey @Historylover yes thats right about dusting the back of your fridge. Also don't push it too close to the wall afterwards it looks neater if you push it right in but it requires space - that is what I was told by an electrician. Have read that elsewhere online, please look that up about allowing space between your fridge and the wall

Gee thats bad news about your clock radio. Yes it does pay to hold onto receipts but that is easily overlooked. Maybe just go through the instructions and have a try at having a go fixing it?  I hope it wasn't too expensive. Where did you buy the clock from?

I'm really worried about this new fridge. I took out an extra $80 to insure me when I purchased it so if it stops working or something is wrong with it I'm covered. Its a scratch n dent purchase. The fridge I have currently is over 10 years old and is making weird noises.

I also took out coverage with my computer and phone - its a necessary evil as you don't want nasty surprises. I held onto my phone invoice and my computer invoice I got from Kogan. I bought my computer several years ago and the new Android this year. So the phone is working ok and so is my computer, but you just never know these days.  I'm sick of trashy purchases. Got stung by K-mart for a vacuum cleaner that packed up rather quickly.

Yes uploading comments is slow at my end too. Been like that for a while.

[Glisten]

@SmilingGecko  You are correct about the back of the refrigerator and airflow. Amazing how many people don’t understand that all engines need air flow for cooling.

I rescued my daughter’s and my bestie’s fridge from pending doom. One fridge choking on a plastic bag, the other a rodent’s nest of debris.

 

[SmilingGecko]

@Glisten I'm having what youre drinking - sip and conquer the day coffee! Had a difficult day today but just moving past that for now. Tomorrow is another day

Thats good you were able to salvage some extra use out of those fridges. But youre right nobody seems to know about airflow. It may look aesthetically pleasing pushing it in but you really shouldn't.

How was your day today? I'm about to pick up some scripts and bring my greenwaste bins in. Got all the things I wanted done in the laundry.

Now got to pack some meat for the freezer

[Historylover]

I knew about the required distance from the wall, @SmilingGecko. Just stops it overheating I guess. Anyway, it's another task I've 'mastered'. It's a little Russian fridge my mother bought for me when I moved in here thirty-three years ago. I replaced the motor once in all that time. I can't complain. I hope it goes a lot longer now that it has been cleaned up. 

I had kept the receipt for my clock radio but it had worked the first morning, but when I changed the volume without checking the instructions to see if there was a choice of ways to do it correctly, it has never worked on the desired station since. I'm hopeful that I'll work out the correct sequence of steps for everything soon. In the interim the receipt had got thrown out with others and the rubbish had been collected.  Normally they can locate the purchase and refund to the same card, but I had destroyed that when I closed my account last week. All the gods had conspired against me.

I hope your new fridge works a charm. Bad luck about the vacuum cleaner. They can be a risky purchase and they always lose their new suction strength too quickly.

Thanks for letting me know about the slow uploading. I thought it may have been my computer.

[SmilingGecko]

The first fridge I ever bought was a factory second and it lasted 20 years @Historylover. It wound up at my ex's place after I moved here. I doubt whether it would still be going. Its great you care for things and look after them. I have heard a fridges life is anywhere from 10-15 years these days based on what I've read here online.  I've never heard of replacing the motor of a fridge. My father was forever fixing things. He was born during WW2 in the UK and they went without lots of things growing up. He had supplies of just about everything, old nuts and bolts, pieces of wood, coils of wire. We had very few possessions growing up.  I'm a bit of an ascetic myself!

[Oaktree]

@SmilingGecko 

Hubby has gone to work for the afternoon and I have just had lunch. Going to tackle some house cleaning now. Not sure what exactly but there are a few things that badly need doing.

Wish me luck,

Meggle