My wife bought some new window treatments for our family room. She warned me against posting any pics on social media. She said it would be curtains for me.
Just in case the same warning applies to the new rug, here is a dog pic, definitely not a rug pic.
The dogs approve of the new rug. But back to the new window treatments, my wife wanted to iron them first before hanging them. Naturally, I protested as I sensed it may mean work for me. “Let the wrinkles hang out,” I said. My wife persisted on her crazy scheme. Before she could waste $2 on a jug of distilled water, I headed to the basement to see if I could scare up some distilled water.
Scare is always the operative word for basements. Anyway, I found this …
An unopened jug! That’s $2 saved. But then we looked closer.
I don’t know what’s more troubling. That I had saved an unopened jug of water for 7+ years or that the water had a “Sell By” date. How does water go bad? Especially distilled water. There’s supposedly nothing in distilled water except hydrogen and oxygen molecules.
I begged, cajoled, and finally convinced my wife to use expired distilled water in the iron. The new curtains look magnificent, and I saved $2. Out of curiosity, I snuck a taste of the 7-year-old expired water.
It didn’t taste that bad, but I probably shouldn’t have drank from the hot iron.
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