I'm blessed now to have my own, but remember well having to spend about $20 to do full laundry run.

It is a huge PITA! I am grateful for my own washer and dryer, too. Laundromats these days are expensive!

Every day, I give thanks for running water - my well, well pump, and water heater, too.
One old saying is “You will know the worth of water when the well runs dry”. I think there may come a time when we all need to be grateful for fresh drinking water. We take it for granted here.

My well does not do real well with a prolonged period of dry weather. Always grateful to finish a shower without the pump saver cutting the water off.

The washer's spin cycle at the end doesn't work so all the laundry comes out soaking wet, as if I'd washed it all by hand and the dryer doesn't work at all. I have a wooden drying rack and short clothesline in the basement so I can hang wet clothes to dry. But towels, sheets, blankets and the bedspread must be taken to the laundromat. I was just there yesterday.

The only good thing I can say about the laundromat is that you can do lot of loads at once. But it is expensive to wash; $4.00 for the small washer. The dryer is more reasonable, a quarter for six minutes. I initially put in enough money for 36 minutes, but sometimes I have to keep adding more quarters to get everything completely dry.

Don't get me started on some of the weird people I've seen at the laundromat. I try to go on the slower days but even then, I might see one.

A new washer and dryer are on my wish list, but not in my budget at this time.

Hope things improve for you.

Have you unplugged it for a minutes and tried running another load of wash afterwards?


Is there a local appliance repair tech in your area? In 2024 our 7 year old GE oven stopped heating up. I called a local repair tech and they discovered it was the ignitor and quoted me a price before actually replacing it. It was under $200 which is much better than replacing the entire range itself.

They do not make appliances to last these days unfortunately.

We have a 14 cubic foot Kelvinator refrigerator that we keep for extra fridge storage. I deep cleaned it recently and I found the serial and model number inside the fridge. It was manufactured in June of 1992, so it's 34 years old. It still runs and has never needed replacement parts.


*Knock on wood* I hope that I just didn't jinx this appliance because I have no idea what to replace it with if it conked out.

Both machines are over 30 years old. I think they need to be replaced.

When I told a friend how old they were when they gave out, she said "you'll never find anything that will last 30 years these days" and I said "That's okay. I'm not going to last 30 years either!"

Good luck with your refrigerator. I hope it lasts a long time more!

They definitely need to be replaced and you got your moneys worth out of them.

Yeah, they don't make appliances that last long these days. It's frustrating because they're expensive.

Thank you!

They lasted nine years for me. Still a good run for old appliances. Like I said, I still use the washing machine and let things drip dry in the basement. It's not perfect, but it's okay.

I had Roper brand set that didn't last me for that long.

The last stove absolutely had to go as I accidently cooked a mouse with it.

We suspect that one of the cats was chasing a mouse and the mouse somehow got into the oven to escape and died.

The smell and the smoke was disgusting, the oven couldn't be saved. It was that bad.

That reminds me. Eons ago, my wife and I were renting a house for a year. Not a bad place, but a mouse got in at some point. Unbeknown to us, it got inside the dishwasher and one of us closed the dishwasher door behind it.

The next day, I opened the dishwasher to put a plate inside and something flew out of there and past me so fast that my eyes couldn't track it. It was just a small object moving like lightning!

Then I looked inside the dishwasher and there was mouse turds everywhere on the bottom. It was just coated!

We wiped out what we could and then we ran the self-clean cycle three times before we used it again.

Gross!

Those little critters can contort their little bodies and squeeze into places that should be impossible.


There's nothing worse than cleaning up mouse urine and feces. Ugh!


I'm glad that dishwasher still worked after all that nonsense.

Bleach will kill a septic system and the last one put me out $40,000.

The laundromat is on a city sewer system.

I dry the whites at home.

A wash here is $2.50. We were forced to downsize when my now deceased husband became disabled. At least I don’t have to mow a lawn or shovel snow. The main plus is I have great neighbors that look out for each other. I do miss having a garden though.

...for a while, and I had to accompany my mom every weekend to the laundromat.

When I think now about using washing machines that may well have been full of someone else's dirty underwear in the previous load, it grosses me out completely.

It took me a long time to persuade my husband that dish towels and underpants DO NOT get washed together. Until I brought him around on that, if I found them washed together, I would re-wash the dishtowels.

I was working in one of my school gardens and I looked up to see this Chinese kid, a resident of the neighborhood and student at the school, staggering down the street with a big bag of laundry on his back. It was painful to watch: the poor kid could barely put one foot in front of the other and he was bent over with the weight of the bag.

When his Granny came along about 100 feet behind him, I went to the fence and asked if they'd like to borrow a cart to get the laundry to the laundramat, which is at least six more blocks away, maybe even more.

She looked at me and laughed right in my face. She said you don't know he's putting you on?

Then I remembered this kid had pulled a couple other practical jokes on me. I then found her totally credible. We both laughed as the kid spotted us and straightened up, now carrying the bag easily.

You reminded me of a story. Years ago, at my Dad's store, my younger brother staggered out of the cooler with a cardboard crate of eggs, 24 dozen. He stumbled and dropped the carton, right in front of my Dad. My brother looked horrified and my Dad was furious. Maybe less so when my brother started laughing, and opened the crate to show it was empty. Lol I saw him do it and I was fooled. He got us both