Why Do Bad Things Always Happen in Threes?

This has been a weekend... With all the things that have gone wrong, it will be one of the few times I'm ready for the weekend to be over.

I have been having car problems for the last month or so.  My car starts "randomly" overheating and we haven't been able to find a leak; but my car has been going through coolant like nobody's business! Well, Friday on my way home from picking The Kids up from school, my AC clicked off and my dash lights said "Turn off AC, engine hot". At this point I cranked up the heater and was just glad we were only a mile away from home.  The Husband only works half days on Fridays during summer so he was home and able to look at my car right away.  He finally found a leak.  We have a mechanic friend who we were able to call to ask some questions. Although he's not going to do the work for us, he was able to diagnose the problem so we know what to expect when we bring it in for the repair. It's probably going to cost us about $500 to get our water pump fixed and sadly, we only have $150 currently residing in our car repair fund.  We have been trying to grow our car repair fund but it's been a case of one-thing-after-another with our cars lately.

The next disaster came on Saturday.  Several months ago we replaced our traditional water heater with a tankless water heater.  The water heater has a digital control panel. It has been mounted on the wall but because of the whole kitchen remodel the control panel was just taped to the wall. Unbeknownst to either me or The Husband, the control panel fell to the ground, which in and of itself wasn't a bad thing, but the condensing hose also fell down and proceeded to drip water all over the control panel and now it doesn't work.  The only silver lining here is that the water heater itself is still working, but the timer and control panel isn't. That's going to be about another $150 we weren't expecting to have to spend right now.

Disaster number 3 came Sunday when The Husband was working on the kitchen remodel.  He knew he was going to have to replace a couple of studs because of water damage under the sink, but as he got more into it, he realized he will have to re-frame the whole wall under the window and sink.  As we have done tons of renovations, we know that's the nature of the beast, but it sets us a couple more days back from where we wanted to be. Instead of finishing up electrical today, we are framing. Because this is our house and we want to do things right, this just adds more time to the timeline until we are finished and it sucks!

This has been a very costly weekend for us and I'm hoping we don't have anymore like it in the near future. I have a small extra check coming next month that will help defray costs and I'm hoping maybe The Husband can pick up a few hours of overtime here or there that will go towards our bottom line too.  With these unexpected expenses, I think I will only be able to make a minimum payment to our credit card bill, but on the plus side, we won't be adding anymore debt and will be able to pay for everything we need. This just isn't going to be one of those months where we are making big jumps forward with our debt repayment.

You know the saying, "bad things always happen in threes", well, I'm hoping it's accurate so nothing else happens to further slow our debt progress!