As if everything isn’t stressful and terrible enough, our dehumidifier has broken. We use it to dry laundry as there’s no room for a tumble drier and living in the UK at this time of year clothes just don’t dry on the line. What are we going to do? We can’t afford a new one, I doubt a mutual aid post would get answered at this time of the month. I just feel like everything is too much, it’s just endless struggle over things that should be small to fix but are just insurmountable without money. Even going to the laundrette is out, aside from us both being too disabled to carry heavy laundry bags too and from the car to the laundrette, the expense would be unaffordable. Having to pay for either the car park, if we were even able to carry it from the car to the laundrette, or else get a taxi, and the astronomical charges to actually do the washing. It says for a small load to wash it’s £5, I don’t know if you can take pre washed clothes and just dry them there but the tumble driers are £1 for 8 minutes and it says it takes up to 120 minutes to dry a load there, that’s £15 just to dry one load! Completely unaffordable. It would cost about £20 in total each time we did a load of laundry there when taking all these expenses into account. Never going to happen.
This just feels like the final stress on top of everything else. C.S Lewis wrote that if a demon wanted to break a human’s spirit, giving the human one huge challenge wouldn’t do it, as the human might feel inspired to rise to the occasion. Instead, the demon should give the human a never ending series of daily frustrations and minor obstacles that seem small but are difficult, exhausting or impossible to overcome and eventually that will break the human, and he was so right. The struggle to get basic things just never ends, and combined with being ill and in daily pain, always just a brief period away from the net disability reassessment, and having absolutely nothing good to look forward to or hope for, I think I have finally reached my wit’s end. On top of everything else now I can’t even do laundry, when I’m supposed to be disinfecting my clothes regularly because of my skin and foot infections.
Why do I even bother struggling on? This is never going to get better.
I’m so sorry, I know from experience being poor is expensive and frustrating. Do you have any neighbors with a dryer you could use temporarily until you’ve saved up enough for a new dehumidifier? Black Friday week is soon, maybe wait two weeks, wash a little less and make multiple trips with smaller laundry bags?
This isn’t a small thing, for you. Your struggle is meaningful and you can overcome this.
Thank you for the moral support. And jut this very moment someone came through for the dehumidifier, so that is one major problem off my plate.
Woah random cool person moment :0
take a few towels and place each clothing item on them and roll them up like a burrito then press really hard to get a lot of water out and then hang them high, warm air rises. use the smallest room and use a radiator if u have one. i’m thinking about u ❤️
i feel you, if you’d allow me to do a little rant too something very similar happened to me recently. i wake up and hear a truck, then boom, the electricity goes out, it was the electric company’s truck. so i tell my crackhead of a father about it and we basically almost went into a fist fight for this shit cos he started blaming me even tho he hadn’t paid the bills for years before i moved here. i went to talk with the company and see if i could do a payment plan but i was already at the maximum number of payment plans, so i had to get the money, i started calling every person i knew who could give me a few bucks. when i finally got the money (i’m in debt now) i tried to go to pay and there was an old lady who literally talked to the cashier for 20 min about paintings because she was a painter. when i finally get to the front of the line they tell me i cant pay half cash half thru the app so i needed to get all the cash. i went to some place and the system was down. i went to some other place and they only allowed for extractions of certain amounts so i had to buy 6 candies in order to do 6 extractions. i finally get the money, pay. end up in absolute minus 0 money on my behalf. i sell some weed for a living, and that day the plug had none until next week. so i had no money, no way to make more money, and barely any food. so i spent the next days in idleness and poverty and depression. there are a few more details that are too personal to share but a few other stuff happened too.
do you think maybe the humidifier can be fixed? that could be a moderately cheap alternative. life is truly and endless maze of torture and sadism.
Nope. Already had my landlady’s friend loom at it. It’s making smoky electrical smells as well as not working and he says it’s dangerous.
