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Bought A Generator and History Thoughts

July 3rd, 2020 at 02:20 pm

Our power went out last night for the third time in the last four months. We never know how long it will be out. One of those recent times it was out for 21 hours. At a minimum it is inconvenient, but usually longer than four hours, food has to be tossed, so we lose money when this happens.

We all hopped in the van and headed to Home Depot. My husband had one generator in mind when we went, but turns out they did not have that one in stock. We ended up with a Ryobi 4000 Watt Inverter Generator which was priced at $549. Home Depot offers a 10% military discount which usually offsets the sales tax. My husband picked up a gas can as well. We used to have a few when we had a mower and a snowblower, but all of those were donated when we moved a year and a half ago. Total cost out of pocket at Home Depot was $563.11

We came home and the power was back on! 😀 From the clocks it appeared it probably turned back on ten minutes after we left or about an hour after it went out. Of course, we would rather have electricity working in the home than rely on a generator! We have no regrets that this small outage pushed us to finally pull the plug and make the purchase. A purchase that we expect we will use and gives us peace of mind in the future.

I hope you are all healthy and safe! Enjoy your Independence Day and if you can take time to watch Hamilton and or read up on the Federalist Papers, which are essays that explain a lot of the thinking by a few of our founding fathers as they promoted the ratification of the Constitution. Even I need to brush up on the details, as it has been awhile. Here's a brief

Text is article and Link is https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/federalist-papers
article to get your started but it's much more in depth than covered here.

2 Responses to “Bought A Generator and History Thoughts”

  1. LifeBalance Says:
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    You have mentioned the possibility of a generator for some time. Good purchase - peace of mind.

    Thanks for including the link. I'll spend some time reading it. I'm embarrassingly ignorant about the details of historical events. That's DH's area, along with geography. (I'm math & science.)

  2. Lucky Robin Says:
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    A generator is on our list of things to purchase. I plan to have one before the fall wind storms this year. Maybe two. We have to run 3 fridges and 3 freezers on top of some heaters and two c-pap machines. We have candles so lights aren't a priority.

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