New Carpet!

A few months ago, Wells Fargo decided to charge me for having a little savings account. Well, instead of moving the money I had in there to our regular checking account, I asked Tim if we could get new carpet instead. I was having bad allergies and I didn't think the carpet was helping matters. I scraped up $1,800 to spend, including birthday, piano, and amazon visa rewards $$. It is tough when you are on a tight budget and have $50,000 in schools loans.

Well, the carpet total came out to $1,827! I was so happy!

Wow, ripping up the carpet was a lot of work! I wanted to save a couple hundred dollars though since I only had $1,800 to spend. It really hurt my wrists--especially pulling up all those staples that held the padding!  

Here is what the house looked like when we toured it. I was not that excited about it. ;)

 

Ripping up the carpet!
It was so dirty, it made my nose hurt so bad and I didn't feel good after I ripped it out each day I did. It took me many days to rip it out! Little by little.

 

Notice the orange up the stairs in the background? Yeah, it's hideous.

   

Yes, it's ugly. I know. 

  

We found this little treasure when we were moving furniture! I was so happy! I just got this for Tim for Christmas, and the last one before this was stolen! He thought he lost it outside. Praise God we found it, I was praying we would! 

 

Tada!! It's so nice!!! Tim says it's like walking on clouds. We love it!

  I LOVE how my piano room looks!

 Timmy likes it. :) I am so thankful! 

 

Oven & Thankfulness

So the oven part of our range died. The stove still worked, but not the oven. I knew it would be a lot to fix because service calls are outrageous, so I tried to figure out how to fix it by looking at the online manual. I figure it was just a switch to the gas that needed reset or something. Well, the manual pictures were not very good and I couldn't find what they were trying to tell me. I think I may have had the wrong manual anyway. :) So we had to call a repair person and $200 later, it's fixed. Yes, I did not want to spend all that money, especially as I was trying to save the money that we had from paying off one school loan to put toward another, but thoughts of thankfulness entered my mind. I am so thankful that I have an oven and a house to put it in. I am thankful for that blessing! God is good to us and He provided the money to pay for the oven repair. A new oven that I want is over $1,500, so while I save money for a new one someday, I will enjoy my $200 repair and my old oven in all it's glory.

Washer

Our washer decided to quit a few weeks ago.  It started the spin process and sounded terribly loud.  I thought that maybe it would be a lot to fix or unable to fix because our washer is so old!! Well, I was able to get the name of someone in our church and he came out, thought he found the problem in 5 minutes, and said he would buy the part and put it in the next day.  He put in the $27 part and it worked!! However, I started to do laundry and it smelled REALLY bad like a belt was burning.  THEN it squealed during the wash process. I was so nervous.  So I let the repairman know about the smell and he thought it would go away.  Well, after 5 loads the smell is better (still there), and the squeal is gone (for now). :)  All that to say, so thankful that it was not too much to fix!! Although, I was excited to maybe get a new high efficiency, low water washer. :)  We didn't really have the money for this, so just another thing to be thankful for--the blessings that God gives me!! What a cheap fix for now! :)

 My Happy Washer (as of now) :)