Water Problems

So after meeting with the Culligan salesperson yesterday, we discovered (after numerous water tests) that its not just our drinking water system that is shot.  Its the entire system.  Our softener hasn't been working at all and we had no idea, other that some weird smells coming from the washer after several days of no use. It was my questioning the salesperson about this problem that led to water testing and the discovery of a completely dysfunctional water softener.  So now we have to buy an entire new system.  The house is 18 years old, so it's probably time for a new one.  The good news - they can come and install it on Thursday and were able to work around all of our holiday traveling.