The Spooky Keurig Mini Coffee Maker

After the last Keurig coffee maker died we got a one cup model to replace it. That was over three years ago. We use it primarily to heat water for tea after dinner and occasionally for one cup of coffee when only one of us is here in the morning - a very rare thing indeed. Over the last several months the machine was getting out of sorts. It would start and stop. It wouldn’t start at all. It took several tries to get the thing to turn on and warm up after pouring in the water. Then all of a sudden it started to make brewing noises in the middle of the night and it wasn’t even turned on. It was like some ghostly phenomenon. So we started to unplug it after use. Because I knew it was only a matter of time before this one stopped working completely I ordered a replacement backup unit during the last Amazon prime sale a few months ago. It’s been sitting in the closet. Because of the plugging and unplugging and general deterioration, we decided it was finally time to swap it out yesterday. So we unpacked the new one and placed it in the same spot as the old one - next to the Mr Coffee pot in the kitchen on top of the Kcup sliding rack. I put the old one in the box from the new one and we brought it down to the dumpster area in the building. When I was reading the instructions for the new unit it actually says you should unplug it after every use. Maybe that was the problem after all - although that was just one of many. So rather than ruin the outlet by plugging and unplugging every day we need to get an adapter for this appliance. At least when we did the first run through it worked nicely and after dinner last night I didn’t have to fool around with it to get it going - and while it was brewing it wasn’t screeching at us. I guess most of these things have a shelf life. I hope this new one lasts a bit longer. Let’s see if unplugging it will make any difference.