Hick has been looking for a "new" used refrigerator to put in the Beauty Shop efficiency cottage. The other one quit working on the day he gave the realtor a tour. Hick reached in for a refreshing beverage, and it was not refreshing at all!
Anyhoo... Hick found a fridge on Facebook from a lady who only wanted $150 for it. But it was not white, which Hick needs, to match the white stove. Tuesday, he said he saw that it was the last day for a refrigerator sale at Lowe's. That Lowe's had refrigerators for $300, and they said it could be delivered by Wednesday. Off went Hick to buy a refrigerator.
Well. When he got there, he measured, and discovered that while it met his cubic feet criteria, it was only 28 inches wide. Hick needed a refrigerator 32 or 33 inches wide, to fit the space in the Beauty Shop.
"They had one that size, but it was $500. I got it, to be done with it," Hick reported on Wednesday night.
"Was it white?"
"Yeah, it was white. It's working. I'm gonna leave the stickers on it, to show that it's new."
I don't know if the realtor will go for that. Not sure how it would look in the pictures she's planning with a professional photographer. Might be too much lipstick for our little pig of a house.
My, oh my. Hick is going to have to raise the price on the house if he keeps spending cash on it. He'd better be careful or he'll price it out of the market.
ReplyDeleteHick is not going to raise the price, since he's taking the advice of the realtor. We'll just have to eat that extra $350 (from the $150 he could have spent on a used refrigerator). That's $175 for us, and $175 for The Pony. Not a deal-breaker.
DeleteIt might be too much lipstick, but a new fridge of a decent size is a good selling point.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it will put a buyer over the edge to purchase the property, which would be great. I'm not sure it will recoup the extra cost of the "newness," but then again, we'd get nothing if it didn't sell.
DeleteIf she objects, distress the refrigerator! That will show her.
ReplyDeleteHeh, heh! I would hope that merely removing the stickers should suffice.
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