11.06
Laundry night…
Just got back from the apartment laundry room (there are two 4 washers, 4 dryers. At least 1 dryer is always broken. I think everyone else in my building has their own but I didn’t want to deal with that if I had to move… ).
I do 2 loads at a time every week – week and a half.
The price per load just went up (without warning!). When I moved in (6 years ago) it was $1/load. Last year (or so) it went up to $1.25/load.
Some time in the last week, they replaced the washers and dryers. Digital displays. 1 slot for quarters (the old ones had those traditional multi-slot coin things.) so they can change the $$ without changing the machine.
It’s now $1.50/load (Unless you want a “Super Wash” – whatever that is – for $1.75). And the washers are smaller so it might take more loads. So, now I’ll be paying $6 every time I do laundry. Two rolls of quarters will no longer get me thru the month. I’ll need more. Basically, $24/year more to do laundry. But still not as much if I’d purchased an apartment size washer/dryer when I moved in.
And 2 of the dryers are already broken (1 of which I didn’t find out until I fed it some quarters.).
(Of course I don’t want to say where this is. Wouldn’t want to get sued for slander…)
But wait, there’s more…
- My rent went up in July. (They say it didn’t — but since I now pay for water/sewage when before it was PART of my rent… I think that counts as going up. The Apartment Management Co. gets more. I pay $10-15/month more. (And half of that water bill is a processing fee to a utility bill management company in Utah. )
- My car insurance went up $5/month this month (usually it goes down as a car gets older). (Haven’t gotten my renters insurance bill yet but I expect that’ll go up also.)
- My cable is going up ($2/month MORE for the same cable modem I’ve had for 6 years? Huh?) $10/month
- My health insurance? Yup, it’s going up (not sure exactly how much yet. $70/month? And I now have a large (not huge) deductible where I didn’t before.). But at least I have it.
- AAA membership fee went up.
- BMW CCA membership fee is going up. Fortunately, I won’t see that until 2011 since I pay for 2 years at a time.
- Food costs more.
- My VISA? My interest rate is going up. At least they didn’t lower my credit (yet)
- Gas is going up again (No surprise there now that Wall Street thinks the economy is better — even if unemployment is still going up.)
- A bank I do’t use (last car loan – they didn’t cancel the account afterward) is going to start charging to send out paper statements. Need to cancel that.
What else? I’m sure I missed something.
Oh yeah… my Yahoo SB Hosting fees went up. Usual – cheap first year to get you hooked and then triple it the next year. Mostly for the domain names I grabbed (Guess I should only have gotten 1 instead of three (.org, .net, .com)… but I wanted to cover all my bases.)
(My phone bill(s) went up but that’s my fault for getting an iPhone AND trying to bundle my landline in with it. That messed everything up.)
Life is going to cost me at least $150 more a month this year. And it won’t go down of course. And there were no raises in Mudville this year. Just gladness that we’re all still employed.
And taxes? I’m sure those will go up.
And my car needs to go to the garage. More $$$$. And then there’s the annual T-giving trip. Need to make travel arrangements. And bring clothes for a possible funeral 
A wonderfiul month!
