We live in a DIY world and the reason is that if you don’t do it yourself then you have to deal with all those people out there. You know the type – the thermometer broke on our A\/C, the guy comes out, no longer has the same thermometer so now we have one that is half the size of the old one, more complicated to use and a hole in the wall where the larger one used to hang. <\/p>\n
Appliance guy who was supposed to come fix the washing machine that keeps going off balance – scheduled for 8-12 today, no one showed up. Turns out this guy never heard of us and doesn’t fix a Fisher Paykel anyway. So I have to do the hunting for Lowe’s and find someone who they have authorized to use who actually works on the appliance that they sold me and guaranteed. <\/p>\n
In the Do It For Me world, it’s all Pandora’s box – you call someone to fix something and they end up breaking something else. Blech. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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