I Bought a Used Washing Machine and Found a Diamond Ring That Brought the Police to My Door

meant as-is. I did the mental arithmetic. Sixty dollars. If it ran for six months, that was worth it. If it died tomorrow, I had lost sixty dollars I could not afford to lose, but I had also not spent six months washing three children’s clothes in a bathtub.

“We’re buying this,” I told Hazel, who had been tugging my jacket and asking if we could leave.continue reading …