Money Saving Win of the Week – Broken Washer

Our 12 year old washer started throwing out an error code recently and wouldn’t complete a wash cycle. I ended up looking up the code online and it pointed to the washer pump not working correctly. I checked all the hoses and the trap for something blocking it, but couldn’t find anything. The pump did…

How to potentially save a fortune on a big-ticket appliance

Our oven was old when we bought our house, but it worked. Then we got 8 more years of life out of it. During that time, only a couple burners worked consistently, we replaced some missing knobs and the heating element in the oven had to be replaced. That cost us about $100, which wasn’t too bad at…

“It still works, why would I replace it?”

When we bought our house over 7 years ago, we bought a new washer, dryer and refrigerator. Everything else was either already here or we brought it with us. The stuff we brought with us was what you could consider “college dorm” quality products. They worked well, but were small and not really top of the line….