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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's these terrible single washer/dryer combos that are the cause of this pain. I can only assume their popularity is because they are small and cheap.

It may be the one thing America gets right - overwhelming people have larger washer / dryers with dedicated washing and drying sections. Takes up more space and I'm assuming requires hookups that aren't common elsewhere, but man, they are SO much faster and far more effective. You can be done with all your laundry in a couple hours tops - and I'm talking like 1-2 weeks of laundry all at one time.

Meanwhile we have one of these, and I feel like we're doing small loads of wash the entire week. And don't even bother with the dryer setting on it - for 90% of items, you're just spending 6 hours raising your electricity bill.

/rant

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have never in my live seen a washer/dryer combo, but that does seem pretty stupid. Like just hang your cloth to dry, it's not that hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

But why bother? I have a machine like that. I can put my clothes into it for a short cycle while I'm running, and after one hour I can wear clean and dry clothes again. It works great. It saves a lot of time and effort.

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