Great, that's what I was hoping! I'll try to remember to cancel at the end of August but this gives me wiggle room in case I get distracted and forget.
My house only has the unit and this terrifies me.Well 1 of our AC units just died. Probably going to burn up our 2nd unit just trying to keep a tolerable temperature on one side of the house. Knew it was coming, butBright side is I’m currently working on 3 MSRs.
I mean we know it’s inevitable right, and of course it’s going to happen in the middle of summer. Our units are 22 years old, we chose to gamble, so here we are. Tech can’t get here until Saturday. Fortunately our biggest unit is still working. When it dies we’ll definitely have to go to a hotel. Could we proactively replace it, sure, but I absolutely hate spending the money. I’m stubborn like that.
We are in this situation. We have one unit and it's over 20 years old. We can either proactively replace it or I'm sure it will die either on the hottest day or the coldest day. We're gambling on it right now but it is something I'd like to take care of in the near future. My fear is something going wrong when we are out of town and someone is watching our dogs. I don't want them to have to deal with it and I don't want to deal with it when I'm out of town either. Good luck to you, right now we all need that air conditioning.
Going back to read your report!
Congratulations!!! Nairobi, Giraffe Manor and Tanzania are big bucket list goals for me! Please share the details as you work things out. I’m sure a good bunch of us here would be most interested in learning through your plans. Right off, I had not considered Aeroplan to book Air India when the time comes. So thank you for sharing that tip.Got my points transferred and was able to book my flight to AfricaI booked through AirCanada and am doing a combo of First and Business on Air India. 140k and ~$50 cash one way. I know there are likely better redemptions out there if I was willing to wait, but I'm the kind of high-anxiety person that sleeps better having a flight booked.
Now I need to figure out the return!
Spending a few days in Nairobi (including one night at Giraffe Manor) and then hopping to Tanzania for a mix of safari and time on Zanzibar (in both Stone Town and at the beach). Still working out the details.
Use this as a chance to switch to a password manager (google the password manager of your choice first to make sure it doesn’t have a getting hacked history like LastPass) and use randomly generated passwords for every account. I made the switch (chose Bitwarden) a couple years ago, best thing I ever did for online security. Accounts will continue to be compromised more and more in the future, so be ready.Woke up this morning to emails from Booking dot com confirming my Days Inn reservation in Orlando...that I did not make. Couldn't cancel on Booking website since the reservation was for tonight and they charge for cancellation. From what I can see on Booking it is not my CC but it might have been an old card of mine (don't remember adding a crd bc I never use that site). I did manage to call them and the woman said they would send an email to the hotel to cancel but that I should also call the hotel to let them know. I did and the hotel guy was super rude and just said "you need to call Booking, I'm not doing anything" after I just said "I canceled with Booking and they told me to call you to alert you to look for an email from them."I froze all my cards this morning and will be spending this evening changing passwords for all CCs and all hotel, airline, etc accounts.
Ridiculous.
Intrigued to hear a review on air India J! I see availability with them but always pass as I’ve also seen bad reviews.Got my points transferred and was able to book my flight to Africa
Now I need to figure out the return!
Spending a few days in Nairobi (including one night at Giraffe Manor) and then hopping to Tanzania for a mix of safari and time on Zanzibar (in both Stone Town and at the beach). Still working out the details.
I would do the 4th. May be crowded, but nothing like Easter crowds.
I use Bitwarden also, having been doing so for a few years. One of the best things I ever did period, regardless of online security. So nice never to have to struggle signing in to things. And the app lets you auto populate sign-in info onto websites or other apps. It's great and free. Liked it so much, I sent them money to support them, lol.
We travel often over Christmas, we've spent 1 out of the last 4 Christmases at home. We've done skiing twice and San Diego once, I really enjoyed it but the girls asked to do Christmas at home last year so we did. I don't think they enjoyed it as much as they thought so they have requested another Christmas trip. We aren't religious people so it's more about family time for us and they realized that Christmas with extended family isn't that much fun.
Lol. I'm in the same boat. Water heater was just replaced. Then my range died (well the bake element started sparking and it was 16 years old so I figured I would replace it). New range from Costco is great (basic GE) but the control panel buzzes. Icemaker in the fridge stopped working. The fridge needs to be replaced, but it fits into a cabinet that I think they made 1" too short so I'm really limited. I'm pretty sure the dishwasher will go soon (2007 Bosch). And the AC (one unit for a two-story 2,200 square foot house) will also likely die soon.
my ktichen appliances were replaced when we remodeled in 2016, so I hope those are good, but the newer they are, the crappier they are I hear LOL
