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Presenting.....My new washer :)
My daughter took this one for me...she was rolling her eyes at the idea! Anyway, no pictures of grammie & baby this week. It's going to be several weeks before I get to see her again and I'm going to be going thru withdrawals badly!


Before I left to go to my daughters for a week, with the last load of laundry in my washer, my washer filled with water but would go no further. Luckily I have another set downstairs, so took all the clothes out, wrung the extra water out by hand, took them downstairs to wash, then back upstairs to the dryer as my dryer downstairs is not very good and takes forever to dry.
Then I was gone for a week, came home and since my husband was super busy and gone most of the week on jobs himself, the washer was still sitting with water in it. Yuck!
He sucked the water out with the shop vac, called the repair man who came and informed me that it would cost nearly $400 to fix it. WHAT? I screeched (well, not really) That washer isn't even that old! "Well....it is 8 years" He informed me.
Right. That's still baby age in my opinion. My old washer was 20+ years when it finally died, and my "old set" downstairs is over that too! GRRRR!
My opinion of appliances and about a hundred other things that are made so cheaply now they die in a couple of years is really not too good! To say nothing of the fact that the "normal" person cannot even look at them to tell what is wrong, let alone fix them themselves.
I could go on & on about all that, but I'm sure you've already gotten glassy eyed from reading this far, so I'll just say so far I love it, it's VERY different, holds a ton, works great, is so quiet I can't hear it running unless I'm right in the room and I plan to enjoy it since I had to get it.
My dryer has outlasted both my old washer, & last new one, and other than wishing I had a matching set, I really couldn't find a good reason to buy a new one. You can bet my next dryer (if this one ever does die) won't last 25 years either.