Worth it?

 Was it worth it?

So far, even with all the hardships and extra expenditures, I would say yes.

It’s more than the money I will save in the long run - the Cool Factor counts for a lot.

My Mini-bar has been transformed into a movie theater concession stand and my living room is my private theater.

After a year - I am on to my second box of Coke syrup.

Only to discover the nozzles need to be cleaned,

pretty much daily.

A black thick mold grows in the tiny pores of the diffuser and in and around the fountainhead.

I ordered a specialty set of brushes & and some cleaning solution, but the cleaning is still time consuming.

Not to mention I am grossed out by having consumed gallons of liquid that poured through it, all gummed up and moldy.

I have pretty much stopped using the whole system now.

In addition I no longer order fountain drinks unless I can see the cleaning schedule on the machines. (My son worked at the local theater and one of his jobs was cleaning the spouts. He is also the one that informed me that they needed to be cleaned and showed me how.)

So I can have a coke with my Kettle Corn

- When I can go to the movies like normal.

Next?

Well - I am thinking I might add a popcorn machine, one that produces kettle corn :)

Except I LIKE Kettle Corn, and I am not sure I want to know all the dirty Dark secrets about it that may turn me off of it FOREVER!

Worth it?

Not sure it was, It has been an experience.

I have learned a LOT!

I have spent a LOT

and there is more expenditure to come if I get rid of it.

At this point I have resigned myself to selling it with the house. I just have to wait for the same model home to come up for sale on my street, with no nearby barking dogs or noisy neghbors - then tell my wife I had to sell the house because I put in a soda machine.