Helpful Hints- Garbage Disposal

Here are some helpful hints to save yourself from a week of an unusable garbage disposal... (and can I just add how grateful I now am for a garbage disposal- it's definitely one of those things I have taken for granted)...
#1- some garbage disposals are made so that if something gets stuck in there it will just shut off (kind of like the reset button on some of your electrical outlets) so that you don't completely distroy the disposal. When this happens it will completely shut off so that you don't hear a thing when you flip the switch. (this is what ours was doing)

#2- if it shuts off- there is a little reset button on the bottom of the disposal- push that and the thing can regain power and now you have sound. (in our case there was sound, but it was still not turning/working)

#3- if this is the case, then down at the bottom of (some) disposals there is a little hole that you can stick a key, screwdriver, in our case it was an Allen wrench (also called a "hex key") and you just stick it in there and turn. This cranks the disposal manually and can sometimes help to dislodge whatever it is that made it stop working in the first place.

#4- Now once you've managed to turn the thing manually you can reach your hand down in there (make sure Luke and Brad are no where near the switch) and you can remove whatever it was that ruined your life in the first place- and it should work just fine!!!

helpful hint #5- Don't let your kids play with pennies near the sink- they're really hard to fish out of there. It was completely destroyed- should have taken a picture.

Who knew a real estate agent/landlord could be so useful. Now I know how to fix a disposal if a penny gets in there and jams it all up. And now thanks to me and my all-knowingness- so do you :)