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Down here, the dryer is worth it for pine pollen season alone. Because nothing better for one's allergies than several weeks of wearing clothes totally saturated in the yellow dust one is horribly allergic to.
Down here, the dryer is worth it for pine pollen season alone. Because nothing better for one's allergies than several weeks of wearing clothes totally saturated in the yellow dust one is horribly allergic to.
Never had dust on my clothes, but then I am 4 flights, and no trees really where all the tennants clotheslines are.
A washer and drier shouldn't be your final decision anyway. It should be your wife's. Let me put it this way - those are HER tools. Would you feel happy if she picked out your power saws based on the colors matching your shop? Give advice, and step back.
Harry - I appreciate that you don't want to step on your wife's domain. But you are assuming that the OP's wife is the only one that does "woman's work."
A less offensive analogy would have been: Would you feel happy if she picked out your power saws based on a report she read in CU?
Personally, I used to get really pissed off when my husband used my tools.
Anyway - back to real advice:
If the washer/dryer are visible in a high traffic room, get a matched set.
If the washer/dryer are not that visible, go with the best quality for your money on each unit separately.
If you have natural gas, I strongly urge you to buy a gas dryer over an electric one. The cost to operate is so much cheaper. There ure usually state/loca/federal tax rebates available that will offset the higher cost.
Oh, But will the CDC pay my electric bill? LOL, j/k
I have been using a clothes for the last 100 years, yes, me and the dinosaurs used to hang clothes and never had lice or bed bugs. Now that it is cold outside the towels smell so good when they are put into the linen closet, oh well, preference i guess....
I generally use a line... sometimes a dryer is just convenient...
MissNM, I'm too old to take serious offense to your correction. I did however notice the MissNM and husband used to. However, I don't want to make any more assumptions, since that wouldn't be PC.
If you want to find someone more interested in gender issues and political correctness than solving problems, I'm sure you will find them. I could care less whether or not the "wife" was a 6' 10" drag queen, and the "husband" was a dominatrix. My point was (and is) that the person using a tool should get to choose unless that person is incompetent. You don't have anything against she-male dominatrices, do you?
MissNM, I'm too old to take serious offense to your correction. I did however notice the MissNM and husband used to.
It's Miss as in "longing for" and NM as in "New Mexico." The login name is old and now I realize that I didn't miss New Mexico, I just didn't like where I was. Maybe I should change it to Dominatrix.
My husband doesn't use my tools anymore - he had to get his own. I have to admit that he picked out the washer/dryer (even though I actually do most of the laundry).
And I know what you mean - about getting older and not finding things offensive. I just like to stir things up!
Kinky, but maybe you could just expand on the existing name. MissNM... Hmmm. Short for Mistress Naughty Mistletoe or something like that? I could probably do better, but I'm afraid to.
I used to do a load of laundry every once in a while, but these new machines are too computerized for me (and I am a programmer as part of my business!). I refuse to learn operating systems that are not completely intuitive. I've wasted too much time already learning programs and OSs only to have them change in a year or two. I HAVE learned which three buttons to push on the dishwasher, and how to mash the "add 30 seconds" on the microwave a few times to make it cook food.
I used to do a load of laundry every once in a while, but these new machines are too computerized for me (and I am a programmer as part of my business!).
OMG - me too. I find it easier to have 4 separate remote controls than to spend my time reprogramming one to "do it all." At the end of the work day, the last thing I want to do is technology stuff or paperwork.
I just got a pretty basic set from Sears (white about $750 total). They work great. In a previous house I had the expensive frontloaders. I hated them. The washer leaked down the front and it always smelled gross (due to the fact that not all of the water would go out). Plus, no matter how careful you are, wet clothes always get dropped onto the floor. UGH
I just got a pretty basic set from Sears (white about $750 total). They work great. In a previous house I had the expensive frontloaders. I hated them. The washer leaked down the front and it always smelled gross (due to the fact that not all of the water would go out). Plus, no matter how careful you are, wet clothes always get dropped onto the floor. UGH
I'm with you... not saying someone shouldn't spend upwards of 2k on a washer/dryer if they want to.
I'm saying the basic whirlpool/sears washer/dryers have served my family well for 3 generations...
The last pair I bought on sale at Sears... less than $500 out the door with tax...
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However, I don't want to make any more assumptions, since that wouldn't be PC. 
