It took us 9 years to fix this problem because this is the very first faucet we found that would fit our needs. It's a good example of why I find shopping much more interesting in Monteverde. In Wisconsin, if you want something you go to a store or two and buy it. Ho-hum; it's a chore. Or maybe you go on line and a day or two later it's at your door. Where's the challenge? When we do eventually find what we want here, it really makes us very happy.
Here there are often strange shortages of things—when we first moved into our house we couldn't find coffee cups anywhere in town for a few weeks. Recently there was the desk lamp crisis and we've just spent 4 months trying to get a replacement part of our hot water tank. (It just came into the hardware store. Hooray!) Many people that live here shop in bigger towns or San Jose where there is more demand for luxury goods like a faucet that cost more than some ticos make in a day (about $20). We are just too plain lazy and too content here to go elsewhere to shop. Not to mention that it might take all the fun out of finding a faucet.
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Fun to read your post after my weekend retreat in a convent in Racine. (They are hosting 40 of us Unitarians). Days were foggy and windy on the outside and very mellow inside. Your post reminded me of a sale Dave and I went too once at a convent that was closing down its wing for unmarried mothers who wanted to become nuns. There we saw huge spools of thread and cases and cases of other goods - it is different when you are buying for perpetuity. Thanks for bringing me another shopping perspective with faucets and ladders.
I think I can fully understand what you mean. I think having to make an effort to find stuff or to make things with your own hands gives a huge amount of satisfaction and joy.
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