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About a year and a half ago we had a nasty little house fire that had $20,000 in damage. We considered ourselves lucky since we made it out safely, all of our pets lived, and we had renters insurance.
This evening Charlotte put a penny behind a nightlight and it blew the entire upstairs circuits and put the beginnings of a fire on our outlet. Luckily the breaker did its job. I am sure its going to cost me a fortune in electrician work.
Thankfully she is safe, but she is very scared and rightfully so. It wasn’t too long ago that she was forced to move out of her home and lost a ton of her items just 3 weeks after Christmas.
I was tossed between wanting to yell at her and make her understand she could have caught the house on fire, been electrocuted, killed….but she was just standing there saying how scared she was and it made me scared for her. I know she is upstairs in bed thinking about fire.
On a lighter note, I gave blood for the first time this evening. I had to lie about my weight because technically I’m not allowed to donate, but they don’t take the height/weight thing into consideration. I’m only 5’1″, of course I don’t weigh a ton, but I can still donate blood.
And I did.
And my arm hurts.
But I feel like a hero.
~Trisha
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Scary that a penny did that. WOW! Thank gosh Charolette was ok.
wow that is SO scary. thank God you’re all ok. maybe you should cover your outlets with those child safety things. good for you for giving blood!
Doesnt do much good to cover them if you have a nightlight in it. LOL! Maybe they need safer nightlights. I need to look around and see if i can find some that children cant remove.
A penny did that??? Thanks for sharing that! My daughter has pennies stashed all over the house! I’m checking the nightlights RIGHT now!
That is so scary! I’m glad Charlotte didn’t get hurt. Kudos on giving blood.
That’s very scary! I’m glad everyone is ok! Good for you donating blood!
I went to give blood a couple of months ago.. but they wouldn’t let me because my Iron was low… Geez..
I don’t have the weight problem and the nurse told me 2 days before going to give blood to take 2 childrens flintstone vitamins until the day I give blood and my Iron will be good.. I am going to try it in a couple of weeks when the blood mobile comes back to town.
Good job giving blood is so important.. and goodness HIde those pennies.. Thankful that Miss Charlotte is fine. Scarey
OMG I’m so glad she is OK, that everyone is ok. I can imagine she was scared, who wouldn’t. I hate fires, and am very afraid of them!
I haven’t given blood in long time, WTG girl!
wow, a penny did that? I’m just glad she’s okay.
You should have seen the penny. It melted it in some areas. It sizzled and basically knocked it all out from the current in the penny to the plug. SCARY!
Whoa, that’s scary. Glad your circuit breaker worked.
WTG on giving blood. You weren’t supposed to? Well obviously you are still alive so they were wrong. Kudos!
No because they have weight restrictions and I dont meet them by like 4 pounds. But since they didnt have a scale, I lied.
Oh gosh.. Thank God you guys are and were okay. –
should be in bed but I’m too busy reading this! Love it!
Lol @ Donating blood even though you’re not allowed, I’ve never even heard of that.
You’re seriously the coolest, funniest, and most real blog mom.. If that makes any sense..
Thank you!!!