Frugal in the corner

 Hello everyone, how are you all? It's been a week of repairs, my washing machine sprung a leak and it seems to have been doing it for a while, the floor underneath is ruined and we had to remove the floor tiles, just a steady little drip over months and i never noticed until i saw wet footprints tracking across the kitchen and couldn't fathom  where they came from. I thought maybe the dog peed and no one noticed but it wasn't yellow and didn't smell. Then i thought maybe the girls washing up spilt water and didn't clean up, no because as soon as i dried it all it was back, so the only other possibility was the washing machine. Hubby pulled it out and sure enough there was a puddle. The floor tiles were buckled and lifting so they were removed and the puddle was dried up but it was back later.  It's amazing the things that go through your mind when it does things like these, was it the filter, so we emptied that and cleaned it all out and it was still dripping, ...