About ten years ago I purchased a refurbished DoubleWide in a gated community. Paid cash money for it so it is mine and I have the title. All was fine until about Two years ago... My MicroWave and My Refrigerator both died. Then came a leak in my bathroom wall so my floor is getting soaked. I walk on water so I guess I am loved. :) My kitchen sink and both toilets are malfunctioning so they need to be replaced. All of these things happening at the same time is too much for me to handle alone So I've decided to abandon ship to stay sober. Oh Yeah, Shit can and does happen in sobriety. Plenty of reasons to pick up a drink, but not today.
I have tried to work with realtors but each attempt somehow got sabotaged and I was unable to purchase a condo or a townhome. My HigherPower wants me to be in a place where there is help nearby I suspect. So I've checked AssistedLiving but the cost is way too high for my budget. Next I will look at IndependentLiving. If I can't find some sort of reasonable arrangement I think I'll jump off the Planet. :)
Hi Marc, Thank you for sharing with us..... I can relate....but I don't have a place of my own anymore. It is a rental apartment and shared with another person. The hot water in the kitchen is a trickle--it takes me so much longer to wash dishes--the cold water pressure is fine--just doesn't clean dishes. We have had to use space heaters as the landlord came in a few years ago with some kind of inspector who found out if some kind of part was not replaced on the heater--it could explode. I asked the inspector "is it dangerous?" and he replied--"well, yeah--you can get killed if you are near it when it happens. (It is in the kitchen where I spend right much time). Well, the landlord was given a certain amount of time to replace it and he still hasn't. Where I live, it can get mighty cold here. Blankets are nice. There is a huge hole in the bedroom ceiling where there was a water heater up there (which I didn't even know they put water heaters in attics before living here) and it leaked and took out a huge chunk of the ceiling. The landlord never fixed it.....so there are garbage bags covering it with tape to hold them. Oh, yeah--the toilet....the handle doesn't come back up after it is flushed, but sometimes something else does.
That is life. None of that stuff above caused me to relapse, but it is aggravativing. I have to remind myself about the homeless folks around here. Many wander through the alleys digging in trash cans for their next meal....their "roof" over their head is a box if they are lucky to find one if the shelters are too full. This place would be a luxury home to them.
-- Edited by leavetherest on Sunday 24th of April 2016 03:50:07 PM
There's ALWAYS an alternative to 'drink'n' ... ... ... we simply have to search for it sometimes ... I've heard, and also confirmed, that drink'n never solves a problem, it always makes a problem worse ... always ...
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Quit whining, people. Remember Chris Farley from SNL? Matt Foley...Motivational Speaker
"I'm 32 years old, and I LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!"
you people should be grateful. When I was growing up, I had to walk 10 miles to school. In the mountains. We didn't have running water. We had to bucket it up to the latrine from the stream. We were REAL men back then. Like John Wayne.
Electricity? Give me a break. It wasn't even invented when I was young.
my question to you, Marc: why do you need 2 toilets? Bro, all kidding aside, it ain't hard to fix a toilet. Its a very simple contraption. If you got water running to it, you can fix it. If you can't, any neighborhood handyman can do it, and there isn't much to them, theres probably a whole $20 worth of parts inside the thing. Maybe the float is stuck, or the little chain that pulls it from the handle fell off. Yer gonna have to fix it. Nobody can hold it that long. You got this, bro. I believe in you.
We didn't have a kitchen sink, either. Believe it or not, the toilet bowl doubles up as a great kitchen sink.
really glad these problems aren't triggering you to drink. That would be F***** up if you went to a meeting to get a white chip and you said "my toilet broke, so I had to have a drink".
PP, Yer so right. Drinking doesn't solve any problems. You can get drunk, and hide from your problems for a while, but they're still gonna be there when you sober up. And they will still be unsolved. And probably worse.
I used to hide from my problems by drinking. I wouldn't even answer my phone. I didn't want to face anything. But when you drink, molehills become mountains. And when you're sober, mountains seem to look more like molehills. And that's the friggin truth.
Gee thanks Baba, that was very helpful.
Opinions are like you know what and everybody has one.
So we leave it at that or settle the OldFashionedWesternWay.
Oh, and don't be the idiot who brings a knife to a GunFight. :)
I try to bring a little humor to the board. Along with a little encouragement for people trying to quit drinking. And I'm an expert on toilets. I've hung my head over hundreds of them.
LMAO Baba, ... I wasn't go'n ta mention this, but I change my mind ... I'm also an expert on toilets ... last Thursday, I had to go to my handicapped son's house and replace the toilet there ... it's the nature of the beast ... he hits the bowl evertime he transfers to his 'shower chair' from his wheelchair to use the thing ... eventually it comes loose from the 'closet flange' and has to be redone ... this time the water tank fractured and had to be replaced also ... sooo, once I found and ordered a new 'slip-in' closet flange, they come in 3 or 4" ... I proceeded to go make the repair ... once the old flange was cut out, all I had to do was support the pipe from underneath in order to insert the new flange, then caulk around it and screw it to the wood flooring ... He went and bought a new bowl/tank combo and it was a piece of cake to put in after the floor thingy was fixed ...
The thought did cross my mind 'bout how many time I had my head stuck over one of those in years pasted ... NOT very pleasant memories if I say so myself ... LOL ... ahhhh, those were the days .... don't miss 'em one bit ... but Baba is right, toilets are about as simple as you can get as for fix'n the dog-gone things ... (keep in mind the 'flush lever' has 'left hand' threads, and most are plastic now-a-days, so be careful to not overtighten ... LOL ... and don't put too much slack in the chain to the flapper, or it can catch and the toilet will run continuously ... and ever few years, you'll need a new 'fill-valve' ... depending on your water hardness level ...
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Ok....this is weird....My computer screen is messed up....When I scroll up or down, a faint image of Pappy "moves" up and down where all of our avatar's are located. No one else--just Pappy's. It is like the guy is following me. LOL! It is so strange....
