If you’ve been around this blog for a while you’ll know that laundry isn’t my strong point.
I blame a lot of things for my lack of laundry prowess. The fact that our ‘laundry’ (pictured above) is just a sink and washing machine taps that are in front of half our back door is always top of the blame list. Today I added another reason to my list, a reason I had no idea existed but it now seems so logical….
You see before today I had a tiny washing machine. A 4kg washing machine. I didn’t know it was small until I walked into the show room and saw all the gleaming white MONSTERs with numbers like 6kgs, 8kgs…. 9.5kgs!
You mean all these years, these 12 odd years, I’ve been washing tiny loads when I could have been washing huge ones??
To think I was sad yesterday when our old, reliable, SMALL Simpson washing machine stopped suddenly, never to pump out water again. I was annoyed at having to waste a day looking at washing machines, let alone spending our emergency stash on a new one.
The sales man saw us coming a mile off and, I’m sure, rubbed his hands together with glee.
Two girls walking, Daddy carrying the boy child and Mum pregnant. He steered us to the biggest most expensive model in the shop. “I bet you do a lot of washing” he said, I’m still not sure if he was feeling sorry for me or congratulating me.
We’re not that silly though… We had a budget and an idea of what we’d come for and I was only mildly dazzled by all the flashing lights and features of the top of the line models. And hello, even the 6kg washers looked HUGE to me. I wandered around in a daze muttering “but they are all so big…..”
In the end we came home with a 7.5 kg top loader and oh wow can it wash!
Now all I need a bigger washing basket, a slave to hang all that clean washing on the line and clothes that magically fold and put themselves away and I’ll be laundry legend!
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Our ‘old faithful’ is becoming a bit unreliable these days. We have to manually move the dial to get it through the last spin. I fear that we are on our way to the appliance store and ‘old faithful’ is on its way to the big appliance store in the sky.
Maybe I will be as pleased with my new purchase as you are with yours. I hope so.
Shelly
I love the domestic godess with all the right tools look on you, it’s great!
Our washing machine seems to be pretty small, and it takes 3 hours to wash a load. It to takes FOREVER to get washing done, particularly when you’ve just for home from a week of camping and your entire wardrobe is dirty. :D
Enjoy your sparkly new machine!
Chris.
Oh man, you should see my washing pile at the moment! The laundry is not my strong point either. YAY for 7.5! You won’t know yourself.
Thanks Kate for letting me know about the comments glitch. I have changed my comments to ‘pop-up window’ and hopefully that will fix the problem. BTW, your comment eventually did show up.
Thanks for taking the time to comment twice!
Shelly
Hehehe, you always make me smile, Kate. Hope the new machine makes your washing load lighter x
I didn’t know what mine was, I had to have a look, it’s 8kgs. I’m impressed you were managing with such a tiny machine! You’ll love your new one.
As you know, I’ve felt your exact pain this week! Snap!
Silly me thought we had a 7.5kg washing machine. So, when we bought our reconditioned Simpson 5.5kg washing machine, I was inwardly lamenting the loss of 2kg washing capacity each wash.
When the man turned up with our washer, he giggled and then pointed out that our old was was actually a 5kg washer!
So, we’ve been washing for 6 with a 5.5kg washer for the past 17 months, and didn’t even know it!
We LURVE our new washer already. Although recond. it actually looks BRAND new. It came with a 2 year warranty, so we have peace of mind, yay! But the best bit is that it washes a regular load in 28 minutes AND we don’t have to keep restarting it. OMG – I can’t believe we put up with restarting our old (too sensitively calibrated after a new motor was put in it) washer for the past 4.5 years!
Enjoy yours, we’re certainly enjoying ours and have renewed faith in the old adage, “Where a door closes, a window will surely open”!
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