laundry fight - see if this makes sense

[sammytko]

On another forum I frequent there are some posters that think everything was so much better in the olden days.

Somebody posted about how washers and dryers don't last as long today.

I say NAY! I think you should compare how much laundry you do; not just how long your machine has been sitting in the basement etc.

I gave them the example of my sister and I. Her machine 30 yrs old. She does maybe 2 loads a week. I do at least 10 loads a week. In the 8 yrs I have had my machine, I have done at least 1000 more loads than she has.

They think you can't compare it like this. I think it is the only way.

I could say that Krups makes a fantastic cappucino maker just because I have had one for 20 years. Forget the fact that its been in my pantry most of that time!

[petronius]

1. I think you are more right - the number of wash cycles is the best measure of quality

However, longevity, even lightly used, is still some indication - seals crack, metal rusts, paint flakes, etc, and all that will happen more slowly on a better machine...

[sammytko]

2. Plastic doens't rust!!!

so I still win - lol.

[elleng]

3. Maytag

[applegrove]

4. They do make things with a shelf life these days. Take couches. I had a couch of

my grandmothers (8 way, hand tied, web & coil construction) that was 65 years old and it was perfectly bouncy and in great shape. I took a interior design course and we leard there that today's couches have shelf lives of 7 years.

[ChoralScholar]

5. Where I bought my furniture,

the couches weren't on shelves. :P

[applegrove]

6. LOL!

[siligut]

7. Planned obsolescence instituted after WWII

So we have to buy new stuff. You know about furniture? Cool. Mr. Gut is a big guy, so we bought Flexsteel furniture and the set we have now is going on about 7 yrs, and still in great condition. Even the upholstery is holding up, but I am thinking of having it reupholstered sometime soon anyway as I am fairly certain it is full of farts.

[sammytko]

8. yeah that's the thing about upholstered old furniture - all kinds

of dead skin cells and other creatures abiding in there. lol.

Wonder if you could extract DNA and find out who sat it it.