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When it rains....

February 4th, 2008 at 04:12 am

Friday, got home from work. Downstairs neighbor came upstairs, knocked on our door, told me that the hot water tank leaked all over the place and he shut it off. He's Mr. Fix-It and works on stuff like that in houses for a living, then he said the dreaded words: "I took a look at it, and there's no saving it. You're going to have to get a new one."

Of course I wanted to burst into tears (but didn't, of course.) It's something that we NEED, so goodbye (ONCE AGAIN) emergency fund. A lot of the stuff around the hot water tank was old (flue pipes, or whatever) and he said we'd have to replace those. I'll admit, Saturday I was wondering to myself "I wonder how long we could go without hot water...." Well, being that that means no warm showers, no hot water to do dishes (probably the only 2 things we use hot water for as I do laundry always in cold water) I knew there was no way we could go without one.

So emergency fund is not totally gone, but mostly gone.... which makes me very VERY nervous, being that we have the Citi bill that's a million extra dollars due this month. I wasn't planning on touching a dime of the emergency fund to pay it, but if I *HAD* to use a little bit of it, I would have in order to make a CC payment on time. So needless to say, I've freaking out at how to pay the bills this month, much less other necessities like gas for the car and food.....

I swear, every month something BIG goes wrong!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh!

3 Responses to “When it rains....”

  1. My English Castle Says:
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    Oh man--there's nothing worse than the leaking Hot water heater. We're thinking, though they're more expensive upfront, about getting a tankless one next time. DH had one while he was in England, and they are so more efficient.

  2. dtjunkie Says:
    1202131911

    Hang in there!! I know exactly how you feel, deep down inside you know you'll be able to meet those payments one way or another.

  3. miclason Says:
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    ((hugs)) I know the feeling...but, just think about it this way: you HAD an emergency fund...if the tank had broken down anyway, and you had had the mega payments due anyway BUT you hadn't had the emergency fund...THAT would be a real problem!...I know you can get over this!

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