This a rather random post, but aside from all the cute travel and kid pics I want to make sure I record some of what it is like living abroad. Our original washing machine could only hold about a day's worth of clothes in it. This means that to stay ahead of the game. You MUST wash 2 loads a day. It's not optional. If you don't, it piles up and up and up.
So we decided it was worth the investment to buy a brand new one. It was amazing. It could hold double what the other could. I got down to having to only do laundry three days a week. It was quiet, digital, a thing of beauty until it just shut off mid load one day and refused to start. That was two weeks ago.
Two repairman trips later it is still not fixed. The thing got rave reviews, but it turns out we got a dud. I forget that we are living abroad until things like this happen. Then I remember I don't know my way around and get lost finding the closest laundrette. I also discover I have 30 dollars in quarters which obviously won't work here. So I then spent an hour trying to figure out the location of another ATM when the only one I knew of happened to be out of cash that day. I get back to the laundrette and realize I don't have time to run 1 load before I have to be back for the school run.
I have never paid to have my laundry done in 33 years of generating the stuff, but desperate times called for desperate measures. I mean I had 6 laundry baskets full of items in the back of my car. Total cost = 47 pounds (around 75 USD) Money well spent to maintain sanity. I plan to make Panasonic pay the whole thing. Tonight it shut off again and next week will be filled with more follow up phone calls to the repairman and Panasonic. And probably another trip to our local laundrette.
If you don't hear from us, check the TV to see if UK has suddenly started broadcasting about a nudist family from the USA or call 999 (UK equivalent of 911) as we may be trapped under a mountain of laundry we couldn't get out of :)
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