One of my new hobbies is fixing up old appliances…

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I hit the mother load today. I've mentioned in the past that my new hobby is finding old appliances, fixing them up, and donating them to Habitat for Humanity, who sells them. And this guy posted that he had one dryer. By the way, if you ever find a dryer with a lint trap on the top, get it, because that means it's fully front serviceable. Anyway, he said he had one dryer, and it only needed one part. That's this plate back here, which I can certainly replace. And I got to talking with him about the dryer he had, and told him, you know, I take these down to Habitat for Humanity, and they, you know, clean them up and sell them. And he was like, well, I've got two more. I've got another washer-dryer set. If you're donating them, I'll just give them to you for practically nothing. So I ended up getting three for practically nothing when I came expecting that I was going to just get one. So that was a great get. It was kind of... It was interesting, though, because the guy was selling the dryer, and he did not have much. Like, I won't get into it, because I don't want to sound like I'm looking down on the guy, but he didn't have much. And as soon as he found out I was donating it, that changed everything. Like, not only did he, you know, give me this one for practically nothing, but he threw in the other two. And it's just always amazed me that these guys that have so little... I mean, it's just the worst to give so much. It's just... I don't know. It just reinstills my faith in humanity, I guess. But I could tell he was just tickled to death to contribute in some way. So that was awesome. Everybody got something out of that. And the beauty of doing it through Habitat for Humanity is, first of all, they get a 95% score from Charity Navigator, which is, like, that's a good score. That means that whatever you're giving them, they're using it as efficiently as possible. And when you do something like an appliance, the money actually goes three directions. So the person, you know, selling the appliance gets some money. Habitat for Humanity gets to sell the appliance, and they use that money to build a house. Build houses, replace wheelchair ramps, porches, things like that. And then the person who comes into Habitat for Humanity store to buy the appliance gets an appliance that they could normally probably not afford. I know when Amy and I were coming up, a dryer going out, that was the end of the world. And fortunately, you know, we would have family and whatnot that would usually come through and either get us one really cheaply, or give us one. So got them all fixed up, took them out. The guys unloaded it from the truck, and it was a pretty successful haul today. Pretty happy.