When I finally moved into my apartment everything broke, since everything I owned was about 10 years old, give or take a few years. My hair brush, toothbrush, shoes, socks, etc all gave up the ghost. I took it as a sign that it was time to move on from my old life.

I hold on to things until they literally cannot be fixed any more, and always have. I've never spent much money on furniture or other adult things until I moved here where I can actually fit furniture that doesn't fold up.

And yet, I woke up to a flood in my bathroom yesterday. I know these apartments were built in the late 1960s, but I've had to work around various appliances breaking in under a year here. The shower rod came crashing down one day, the toilet arm leading to the handle snapped (it was plastic, thank god they replaced it with a metal one), and now the float valve was leaking, leading to the flood. I've had the fan working for the past 2 days to dry everything out properly, but I'm disappointed that they didn't see fit to check these things before I moved in.

On the positive side, I haven't had to deal with vermin minus an unfortunate fruit fly infestation at one point. But I haven't seen any small roaches or had mice in the apartment, so that's a plus compared to NYC apartments. I'm always working on the lower end of the scale when it comes to apartments since I will never make that much money, but I've found that having no infestations is a decent indicator of overall care for the building/complex. 

Hopefully things will stop breaking for a while and I can just get on with doing a deep clean of the bathroom at some point. It won't fix any brewing problems, but it will make me feel better when the super comes to take care of them and it's clean for him to fix.