Firstly, I have atrocious spending habits. Having just moved into a new home, my first home, which happens to be pretty remote in the Colorado sticks, I have been dreading a snow removal system. Yes, yes, it's summer... why should I worry about snow? Well we already had a 2' snow storm and it made me realize I'm not so prepared. I have a huge snow blower, but it was no match for the wet spring dump. So naturally I have an atv and plow on my mind, a wood splitter, propane. I want all the things now. But after getting my life in order I remembered that I should probably have a modestly comfortable emergency fund ready to go. So all those expensive things were put in hold until I could build some padding. This weekend I worked my butt off in the yard Saturday, improving my trail, building horseshoe pits and more trails, weed whacking (the entire yard, too rocky for a mower) and all the other homely things, I decided that Sunday I was going to chill in my hammock and accomplish nothing. But smoking weed and eating snacks. (I'm not totally useless, just spent the past week on a trip with kids climbing, rafting, and hiking. On the clock 24/7. I earned it)
Sunday comes around, and I wake up late (9a) to the sweet atrocious smell of cat piss. I get out of bed expecting a mess but not the mess that I found. My kitchen had flooded. Bad. The water went through the walls into the laundry room laminate tiles are peeling up. Water is pooled everywhere. My living room carpet was totally drenched. And the pressure tank was empty. Not having any clue wtf was happening or why everything was soaked, I went into a mild panic for a moment. Sourced the flood, it was a failed piece under my sink. I had installed a reverse osmosis system and one of the adapters blew. Cleaned the cat messes up, (the laundry room also holds the litter box and that shit was just about floating. No way the cats were going in there. )
Then went to my emergency fund and withdrew a couple hundred dollars for a shop vac and an air mover. Drove the hour and a half to a hardware store and bought them without any hesitation, then headed back up the mountain.
The story doesn't end here... So it's my first spring in this house, and the ants have emerged... sugar ants, black ants, and MFing carpenter ants.
These fuckers love wet wood, and god only knows how much water went through my floor... so I went on amazon, and ordered termidor and all the PPE. Another couple hundred bucks later and unfortunately amazon is fucked and will only send things to me through USPS who won't deliver to my remote address (only FedEx and UPS will deliver out here.) And next week I'm on another week long trip.
So these things will be re-ordered next week and shipped to my PO box a few towns over, but the moral of this story was without that emergency fund, I'd have been in for a world of hurt, so thanks Reddit PF.
TL;DR: House flooded, emergency fund to the rescue.
Submitted June 22, 2017 at 07:23PM by 1cculu5 http://ift.tt/2swlH0d
