Woohoo - we're modernized! Not only is this one hella sexy stove, but it came with a hardcore discount. (did you ever doubt?)

This is one of those times where i absolutely LOVE home ownership because you can do whatever your heart desires. Can you imagine if we were renting and I asked our landlord to upgrade appliances based on the way they look? shoooooooooot.

The original stove worked fine, and we usually don't like replacing things that aren't broken, but it really started to hurt our eyes. I mean, the thing was at least 15 years old! Plus, we figured it can only add value to our place especially if we want to sell it down the road.

Someone once told me to upgrade early on so you can actually enjoy it while living there.

If you make the changes right before you sell, you miss out on all the luxury your hard earned dollars just paid for. Of course, this only works if it's something you plan on doing for sure, but the root of the theory makes a lotta sense....at least when i wanna make big purchases ;)

Once we determined we wanted a newer stove, we just kept our eyes open for sales and it paid off! We originally hit up Best Buy for a different stove on sale for $399 (instead of the original $550) but as luck would have it, they were all out. We were JUST about to leave, when Mrs. Budgetsaresexy saw a lonely little guy hidden in the corner. The nerve! So as any human with a heart would do, we took a nice hard look at that price tag ($299) and we bought it ;) It was even a better model than the one we were originally looking at. And better yet, we found a small dent on the lower part of the bottom drawer....and we all know what that means - more discount! haha...10% to be exact.

So a $550 stove had turned into a $299 stove, and then again into a $270 stove. Add a little tax to it, and voila! A sexy new stove for around $300 bucks.

The hard part was trying to figure out how to wire it up (it didn't come w/ the cord or anything), and making sure to switch them out and not scuffing up our hardwood floors. Nothing some manual labor and googling couldn't fix though ;)

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WHEW! Seriously, i will forever have mad respect for plumbers - that job is no joke! I know they get paid (a lot) for it, but my goodness, I am one tired puppy.

But, 4 and 1/2 hours later, we have success :) There's a lot that went into it, most of which is pretty boring, but hey you might be bored, right? At the very least, you can relate to the new expenditures that were thrown into the mix. Of course, this is on top of this morning's $45 visit. *sigh*

I hold my head up high, though, as I officially did a house-related job all by my lonesome! I hope you're reading this Mrs. Budgetsaresexy ;)

Here's a semi-quick rundown of today's adventures:

• Used hose on "jet" mode to try and unplug tube in cement - failed.
• Tried two more times - backfired and hit J in the face ;( failed.
• Used hacksaw to cut pipe. Not small enough. failed.
• Went to neighbor's to borrow small saw. failed.
• Went to Home Depot - Success!
• bought skinnier hack saw - $11.97
• bought petite coping saw - $6.99
• bought thin skinny saw - $9.99
• bought duct tape - $2.79
• bought 2 flashlights - $6.97
• bought 15 ft' plumbing snake - $9.99
  
• bought long skinny plastic thingie - $1.98
• TOTAL: Roughly $54.00
  
• Tried out saw #1. failed.
• Tried out saw #2. barely failed.
• Tried out saw #3. Success!
• Used hose on "jet" mode to try and unplug tube in cement - hit J. in the face, again. failed. again.
• Went outside for 8w98405567th time to dig for outside pipe - SUCCESS!
• Clean pipe of pact-in mud, rocks, and dirt - Success!
• Put pizza in oven - Success!
• Snake pipe a total of 13 times to rid of all stagnant water - Success!
• Remember pizza is in oven - failed.
• Take pizza out of oven, and eat pizza - failed.
  
• Attach cut-off piece of pipe to pipe attached to A/C with pipe connector - Success!
• Take a break and down 2 bottle of water, while sweating profusely over the 2 cats and watching the temperature rise once again to 84 degrees - Success!
• Turn A/C back on and check all piping and dug tunnels.......SUCCESS!

See what i mean? Plumbers have it hard boy, I'll give them love any day of the week after what i just went through. But after all of that, here we are, 4 and 1/2 hours later....me eating my pizza (finally), and you reading what i have just typed. What a day!

All in all I spent a total of around $99.00, and it was well worth it. A job like this would have run around $125-$200 when I initially called to make an appointment! Ouchy mama that's a lot of money.

We now have a clean piping system, our A/C is back on full blast, my brain is pact full of knowledge, and I can now enjoy the rest of my day off. Oh, by the way - Did i ever mention i bought that cadillac last night? Post coming tomorrow :)

Labels: awesomely awesome, do it yourself, home ownership