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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with if it's not broken, don't replace it.

I'm fine hand washing dishes so for me the dishwasher would be the very last priority[/quote]

Agree with the above.

Our 10 year old appliances are not stylish, but also not about to quit.  Likely you can get 4-10 years longer out of most of them.  OP’s dishwasher sounds like it might die early, but hand washing works fine in a pinch — and OP is in a pinch right now.

Hot water heaters do die.  So that is towards the front of the queue, but don’t spend _all_ your cash on any one item.  Only replace a working item after you have saved enough to fix a second or third item if it dies.  When you replace, be sure to put the new water heater in a low-cost overflow tub, to reduce chances of a flood when it gets old.

I find the HVAC ducts story very hard to believe.  Get several bids, not just 2, when that dies.  I cannot see any reason ducts would need replacement.  If there is new piping, it should be a short distance (only basement/attic unit to outdoor fan-coil) and ought not be expensive.

We have an OLD house.  The HVAC was literally 40 years old when we replaced it (it was made by a Chrysler subsidiary that no longer exists; parts were not available).  We did not have to replace any HVAC ducts when we replaced it.  We did need some new wires connecting the new indoor basement unit to the new fan-coil just outside (not very expensive since 10 ft) and also about 10 ft of copper piping from basement unit to the outdoor fan-coil (also not expensive).[/quote]

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