As I mentioned a few days ago, I bought a new washer and dryer. The old washer and dryer, pictured here, were really on their last collective legs.
For several months now the washer made metal on metal noises any time the spin cycle ran, and within the last month the dryer started making a thumping sound even if there was nothing in the tub to thump. It was time to replace them but I was really just trying to ignore the problem until they completely fell apart.
We were out shopping in Roseville at the Galleria (which has recently expanded and is actually the size of a normal mall now), and we decided to hit Best Buy and see if they had any interesting electronics that we could play around with (I’m really liking a digital camera that can go underwater)…
We wound up over in the kitchen/laundry area looking at washer/dryer combos and were there for nearly 30 minutes listening to the associate describe the differences in their LG line (which was on a sale that was ending that day). We learned about wash cycles, drum capacity, high efficiency laundry detergent, pedastals, stackables, you name it she told us about it. By the time she was done I looked at her and said, “I have made my decision. I want both of these.”
On Friday, both of these were delivered…
Beautiful aren’t they? Is it wrong that I’m giddy as a school girl about these? Front loading (with opposing doors making it easy to pull things out of the washer and put them right into the dryer), high efficiency washing and energy saving drying just add to the deliciousness that is my New Appliance Day. On NAD I was busily cleaning the “old” laundry room in preparation for the arrival. Once the very expedient delivery boys arrived, I just couldn’t wait for them to get the new systems in, get out, and let me get to it.
Within 20 minutes they had hauled out the old and installed the new. Within 5 minutes of them leaving I had the first load of clothes into the washer. Frankly I don’t know how this thing gets clothes clean, because it uses about as much water as it takes to boil an egg – but these clothes come out spotless. The magic of a magnetically driven “clothes chamber” (Direct Drive Motor), high efficiency detergent, and water saving makes it pleasing just to sit down and watch. In fact, I might just take a chair into the laundry room, sit down, and watch it all happen. It only takes 51 minutes for a large normal cycle to run…that’s not too much time.
Anyway…this is what excites adults. For kids it’s a new toy like a Nerf Rocket Launcher, but for us it’s a new ice maker in the fridge, or a new washer and dryer that really gets the endorphins going.
