Here's just a couple highlights of the year.
We've been in this house for 34 years. At Easter, the water supply line to the bathroom sink split, and really made a mess. Two months later, that old water softener gave it up. Also had to replace leaky kitchen fixtures and then the shower got a rebuild.
Five flat tires this year.
Oh, and Christmas morning I went down to the basement, and stepped in water. I installed a new hot water heater in October, after the old one had spewed water everywhere - and there was (again) water all over it, and everything else.
I should probably post this in the HAPPY thread, instead - because it turned out to be the cold water hose on the washing machine.
How lucky can ya get ?
And yes, that basement floor is squeaky clean now.
UPDATE: $38 in SS braided hoses and the laundry is going around and around and everything is dry dry dry.