LOL, I remember my dad telling me when my husband and I bought our first house that it was going to be a “money pit” and expect it to be so. It is ALWAYS something, isn’t it?
Last week, my windshield was hit by a rock on the 110 freeway in LA. It didn’t come through the window, Thank God, but cracked it but good. New windshield was $800, after we called around, dealer wanted $3500 (deductible for insurance was $1000).
My dishwasher is about to give up the ghost and I’m sure I’m looking at $1,000 - it has been repaired beyond its usefulness. I just had the trees cut back on the property and that was thousands of dollars -who knows what next month will bring?
A few rounds of hospitals and follow up medical plus all the third party stuff insurance didn’t cover kept me pretty much at paycheck to paycheck.
Two years later I finally have some semblance of savings.
I’m down to one real debt left at least.
However I have to upgrade the antique computer and related my wife uses. She got 8 years from a Dell tower. I’m gotten about 10 from a similar model.