Steve Hoch
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I'm on my second Frigidaire dishwasher. The first one worked great for the five years or so I had it. I bought another one almost identical to it. Unless I use rinse aid it doesn't dry half as well as it's predecessor.
Or move to the south no snowblower or shovel needed.With climate change / global warming you may not need one soon.
I envy that. My true wish is I never have to even start itWe get snow a few times in the winter but there is a saying up here "What do you do the day after it snows"......... You watch it melt.
The picture below is a typical snow fall up here and within 48 hours it's all gone. So no snow blower for me, heck I don't even have a snow shovel.
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I hope you don't have to start it also Larry. I'm no stranger to snow I spent many hours shoveling snow in Franklin Park to earn Christmas money as a kid and young teenager. Hated it but made good money doing it.I envy that. My true wish is I never have to even start it![]()
I wish I still had a leaf problem. A few years ago all the fully grown ash trees in my neighborhood got wiped out by the ash borer insects. It really transformed the neighborhood, and not for the better.The thing that constantly amazes me is the number of people that live in places which HISTORICALLY have harsh winters and do precious little to either prepare for or (maybe more importantly) move to more “temperate” environs and do nothing but twist and shout about how hard it is to live there(here). Deal with it!
I enjoy having the constant game of seasonal chess which requires cleaning gutters, clearing snow, suffering sunburn and, LOVING the Great Lakes!
I’m happy to deal with some of the “off time” to have the good ones! I have grandchildren close by and I wouldn’t trade that for never needing to deal with Michigan winters to my dying day. I‘ve said it before, I’m a lucky Grandpa!
I must admit, I have installed leaf filter gutter guards which has eliminated one seasonal miseries.
The dishwasher typically does an initial pre-wash of the dishes that only lasts a few minutes. It's meant to get rid of the heavy stuff. It helps a lot to have soap in this cycle, but if you use only the packets you either have to use two or not have soap in the pre-wash. According to the videos (he has a follow-up to the one I linked above) you'll get superior results and save a lot of money using the cheapest powder dishwasher detergent at the store and simply filling both soap dispensers.I would have to imagine as the packet melts it releases the detergent and such in stages