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Warnings on instructions most ridiculous I’ve seen

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Chris and I finally got around to putting in our new window air conditioner on Saturday. Ok, well Chris put it in all I did was read the directions after he installed it. LOL

I took a look at the instruction booklet because I wanted to find out what the Dry setting was on the air conditioner. I’ve never had an air conditioner with a dry mode on it and you know what? The instructions never explained what it was so I’m still clueless.

What I did find in the booklet was the craziest set of warnings that I’ve ever seen! Geez, it made me feel like we should have each called for a life insurance quote and perhaps made sure our wills were in order.

Lets see there was a warning about the batteries for the remote. Specifically –

If you eat the liquid from the batteries, brush your teeth and see doctor.

Huh … who eats battery liquids and how much liquid is in a small AA battery anyway?

Here’s another one – Do not drink water drained from Air conditioner.

The list goes on. I’ve seen some odd and often humorous warnings on electrical appliance instructions before, but almost every warning in this air conditioner booklet is strange. Do they really think people are that stupid? Honestly?





Do you still use old fashioned window air conditioners?

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We living in an older home. It was built in 1927! It’s well built but overall I don’t think the previous occupants did much to change the home. It’s heated with oil so we have an old oil furnace and of course that means no built in air conditioning. I’m sure we could add air conditioning but I think we’ll be replacing the furnace soon anyway so we might as well wait.

So … we use window air conditioners to keep our house cool in the summer. Unfortunately when my husband put them in earlier this month during the heat wave that we had here we discovered that one of the air conditioners (the cheapest one we bought) was no longer producing cold air. It worked more like a fan instead. We figured that the ac compressor is probably shot.

Since it was a cheap unknown brand air conditioner we decided that rather than try to repair it we’d just replace it with a new one so we bought a new air conditioner this weekend. Good price too. Luckily it’s cool here right now because we still haven’t installed the new air conditioner. The other one will cool the house, but two work better for this house.

Does anyone else still use clunky heavy window air conditioners?

We still don’t have an iPod

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Sometimes i find it hard to believe that neither Chris or I have ipods. Unbelievable isn’t it? I bet that the majority of you reading this have at least one iPod or some other type of portable MP3 player in your home.

I keep thinking we should get one. I mean, now that we have the dog it would be nice to have an iPod to listen to as we take our dog on long walks. It might also come in handy on long car rides as Chris and I sometimes have very different tastes in music. At least if we had an iPod we’d each be able to listen to whatever we wanted between the car stereo and the iPod.

I guess I’ll keep an eye out for sales. Any tips as to which iPod is the best one to get? We’d really only use it for music – I think.

Need to find better ways to cool our home

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Now that it’s finally get warm outside here in Toronto I’ve come to realize that we need to find a better way to keep the house cool in the summer.

We have window air conditioners, but they seem to only cool half the house. If I go upstairs into the non- air conditioned spare bedroom on the south side of the house it’s almost as hot as if we didn’t have any air conditioning at all. Same for our kitchen which also faces south.

I have curtains in the kitchen and a roman blind in the spare bedroom, but I’m thinking about getting some wood blinds so that I can use them to block some of the strong sunlight that comes into both of those rooms in the morning and early afternoon.

I figure if I can keep those two rooms a little cooler the rest of the house will be cooler too and perhaps we might even be able to turn the air conditioning down a notch or two.

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