Dishwasher disaster

So for FOUR long, painful years we have lived without a dishwasher. And if you know me, you know we cook a ton, and therefore got really sick of washing dishes constantly.

Our lease was up on the apartment and (for another blog) we decided to stay put, but we had to re-do the kitchen, to include a dishwasher. We had a budget of $1500 all in.

$3300 later....

One of our purchases was a second hand dishwasher. We thought we were getting a bargain. It was a Miele which is a brand I love.. We drove out to Staten Island to get it (tolls there and back - $40), talked the woman down from $300 to $200, looked online and it was selling for $1200 so we patted ourselves on the back thinking we got a deal..

But of course not. We had to call Miele and order parts. $200. We had to get a plumber out to install it $400. So now we are up to $800... and guess what - it's still not working. We called the tech dept at Miele and we need a $380 part and a Miele expert to install it - $175 per hour. We want to SCREAM. We could have got five new ones from Ikea at this rate. And guess what, it's sitting there, not working and I'm still washing bloody dishes!!