Trying to Remember the Good

I’ve talked about this a couple of times before, but as humans, we are so quick to point out all the bad things that happen to us, and all the seemingly great things that happen to other people.

Lately, I’ve made a conscious effort to try to notice all the good and “lucky” things that happen to me.

Last night is a great example.

Last December, we bought a new Keurig coffee maker from Costco.  Our old one died the week before our Christmas party (where we serve coffee, tea, and hot chocolate) and we immediately replaced it. We had had our old Keurig for 5 years and felt it was well worth the money so we didn’t think twice about buying a new one.  Well, last night, after only having it for 10 months, the touchscreen on our new Keurig died, effectively making the whole machine useless.

We were not happy. Because we currently have no kitchen, the Keurig was our only source of hot water for coffee, tea, instant mashed potatoes, etc. I was devastated. Not to mention, fewer than 10 days prior, I had to buy an unplanned for and unfunded new dryer. As my brother-in-law so succinctly put it, “you guys are burning through appliances like crazy!”.

At this point, I decided we would try to take it back to Costco. They have a fabulous return policy and we had only had it for 10 or 11 months.

At Costco, I explained the problem was that the screen went out. She asked me if we had any of the accoutrements that went with it. I was honest and told her we didn’t know where any of them were and that we were in the middle of a complete kitchen remodel. She was very understanding and allowed us to do the return without having any of them.  She gave me a store credit for the price of a new Keurig.

I immediately went and bought a new Keurig so we were never without coffee or hot water.

I’m very thankful that it was such an easy process and we had no problems with the return. I’m so glad that Costco’s return policy is so generous and that it really hadn’t been that long since our initial purchase of our Keurig. I’m sure that helped.

It’s so easy to only look at and reflect on all the negative things that happen; I really want to be thankful and remember the good things that happen to me. It’s so easy to play the victim card and think I’m so unlucky and only bad things happen for me while everybody else is just lucky. This is one of those things and it happens to be finance related, but they aren’t always. It’s nice to look on the bright side and recognize that God blesses me in so many ways every day.