Monday, July 23, 2007

Money down the drain

A very pleasant repair guy came out from the manufacturers today and got the washing machine working again. Turns out it wasn't mainly the paper blocking it, but coins to the value of 210 yen, against which the paper had wadded up. Kentaro has been muttering that we've been wasting money recently, and I guess this proves his point - in our household it's literally going down the drain.

The 5,400 yen (a bit over 21 pounds, or 45 dollars) it cost to clean out the washing machine definitely falls into the "down the drain" category, too. Still, it's times like this I'm glad to live in Japan. I can't imagine a British plumber coming out the next working day and doing that sort of job for the same sort of price.

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