Unexpected Expenses

A couple of weeks before we left for our honeymoon, Alison came running up the stairs, "Something's wrong with the washing machine"!

It sounded like someone had thrown a hammer in the tumbler and then started the machine. Thinking that it might just have come unbalanced, we tried everything from restarting it, to unplugging it, to kicking it. (Okay, maybe we didn't actually kick it... But we