clean.clothes

We got a new washer today! Our old one broke for the fourth time in less than seven years, and instead of paying another $125 service fee (plus the price of the part) and waiting for two weeks (during which we'd have to pay to use a laundromat) the old one is out, and the new one in. There's a class action suit against maytag (our old washer- the maytag neptune) for the exact same problems as we had- the door latch breaking so the door wouldn't lock and run through cycles (it's a front loader- I guess they didn't want the door to open and have water pouring out everywhere), circuit board failure which caused the machine not to enter the spin cycle, and finally, mold growing on the rubber seal between the door and the tub. And yet maytag says they did nothing wrong. Funny. Even funnier is the fact that my parents had the same washing machine for around 20 years with no problems. When they got it, it was avocado green, and my mom even painted it white since it worked fine and she couldn't justify getting a new one just because the old one was ugly. Our new one is the lg tromm steam washer. It's pretty darn fancy. I sat down there on one of our many piles of dirty laundry and watched the wash cycle do its thing. For a while I didn't believe that it was actually working. It kept making pfft sounds and the clothes spun a bit, but there was no water rushing into the drum. Then I read the instructions (yes- after I'd loaded and started the wash. These things are pretty self explanatory) and learned that even though there's not a lot of water in the drum, there are very strong jets of steam shooting in, doing a very good job of cleaning the clothes, all while using lots less water. Sure enough, after ten minutes, I saw the clothes were looking pretty wet. I can't wait for them to finish.