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By heather | November 9, 2008
Shopping online for a new washing machine, because:
1) ours decided that self could not possibly be expected to keep up with the laundry generated by one very spitty baby, one dirt/sand/ketchup loving toddler, one mama who is newly obsessed with hot yoga and in the past week has sweated through 5 sets of workout clothes and an equal number of towels, and one daddy whose laundry lurks in all corners of the house so we can’t really be sure how much there is but it’s a lot and I never find it all until I’m on the final load
2) in a fit of misplaced confidence, I let our home warranty expire (you know the one where they replace your stuff if they can’t fix it and has paid for itself many times over with the timely death of the A/C, shortly followed by the water heater, and miscellaneous other applicances). Because see, once I actually gave in and admitted that our oven (made by General Motors in 1962) would never die of it’s own accord and under duress purchased a new one, why on earth would I need to continue coverage, ha ha ha! I think once the mighty oven was gone, the weaker appliances that were afraid of being laughed at are just throwing in the towel.
Now, I’m faced with either
a) finding and paying a repairman to scratch his neck and tell me the washer has kicked it and then purchasing a new washer
b) sucking it up and buying a new one, but always wondering if ours was really fixable because of something dumb, like say the plug falling out. (We are not total idiots and did check that…)
c) renewing the home warranty and waiting a reasonable amount of time to call in the brokea$$ washer
Remembering that TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE here because people, we cannot go longer than a few days without washing spit cloths, what would you do?
Topics: home improvement, soliciting advice | 3 Comments »
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November 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Umm depending on how long you have had this one, I say just buy a new one if you can afford it. That way you wont have to wait for them to come out and fix it.
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November 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Give me the specifics an I’ll call my dad, an almost genious repairer of all things mechanical.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:51 am
If you get new ones….You MUST get the LG front loads. My life improved dramatically when they were delivered. They rock. I love my LG – but any front load with maximum capacity is well worth it. Plus they use so much less water and electricity. I have noticed a significant drop in my water bill since Aug.
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