Toaster

About 10 or so years ago, Hub's sister worked at Shopko. (*Side note--she was Hub's boss for a few months and got to order around her older brother. Younger sibling dream job!) Anyway, sometimes things would get misplaced in the back or overlooked and would end up being clearanced out and consequently incredibly cheap. She bought this toaster for something like 25 cents. She used the toaster for a year or two and then went on a mission and lent it to Hubs to use. He used it for the year we dated/were engaged, and then we kept it when we were married. When she returned from her mission we offered to give it back but she generously gave it to us as a wedding present! :-) We actually received a brand new toaster for our wedding but just held it in reserve for the day that this one would give up the ghost.

7 years later...

A couple of months ago, one of the sides stopped working. Never fear, we continued to use this old toaster. (I mean heaven forbid we don't get our 25 cents worth.) Then last week I couldn't get the other side to work. It suddenly hit me--for months I had been using this dumb toaster on only one side but I had a 7 year old brand new single side toaster down in my basement.

I decided to finally take a walk on the wild side and bust open that puppy. TADA!
I chucked the old toaster in the trash. Then would you believe I felt a little guilty and wondered if I could coax a little more life into it and was just being wasteful?

Stuff like this makes my mom crazy. Like the time that I decided not to buy the 33 cent knee highs because I already had something else that I could rig and didn't need to spend the 33 cents.

I can feel my mom and Hubs shaking their heads riiiiiiiight....now.