I am, at best, an indifferent housekeeper; at worst I am a terrible slob. I sweep the floors every few days because the crumbs and dust and loose hairs on the tile floor get ridiculous, but I never do a super job. I've lived in this apartment for over a year and a half and I've only ever mopped the kitchen and the bathroom. I hate mopping, it's a man's job. I did buy a mop this weekend, because I have good intentions about mopping the whole apartment sometime soon.
One thing I do keep up on is the laundry. I'm very touchy about having clean clothes and I like to make Dan's life easier by keeping his clothes folded and neat so he doesn't have to play the puzzle game "Match the Black Dress Socks" every morning (it takes him long enough to get ready as it is). So I do laundry. A lot. And I despise my washing machine.
It's not just a washing machine, it's a washer/dryer combo. "But that sounds great! You don't have to switch over the laundry, you just let it go and come back when it's done!" You're right, hypothetical person, that does sounds great. But that's not how it works. Well, that's kind of how it works, but there are a few things about the machine that make it obnoxious to work with.
First, the door locks on the machine while the cycle is in progress. This makes sense. You don't want to open the door while it's full of water and get water all over your floor or have a child sucked into it's spinning, or whatever. Unfortunately, it doesn't unlock when the cycle is over. It only automatically unlocks after a dry cycle after it's done it's 4 hour "Wrinkle Reduce" cool down or you restart the cycle and pause it and wait 5-10 minutes while I scream "Gimme my freaking clothes!" at it.
Second, it takes forever to dry something. Literally, forever. I have put clothes in there to dry for 5 hours and I still had to hang them up to dry when they came out. Here's the estimated cycle time for three regular size bath towels:
That 3 hours and 25 minutes is just an estimate, mind you. It'll definitely take longer than that to run all the way. I usually stop it during the last ten minutes and hang the stuff up to dry. Some people hang dry all of their clothes here. To that I say "Bah!" because that can take days.
I don't have a balcony, and even if I did, it would be against the rules of the apartment and the municipality to line dry my clothes out there (gotta keep the buildings looking nice for the sandlot outside my window!). So I would have to hang them up inside my glacially cool apartment, in a country where the humidity is so high water routinely condenses on my windows or my sunglasses when I walk outside. So foregoing the dry cycle completely is out.
Third, and worst, is the condenser that you have to empty after every load. See, the dryer doesn't have an outside vent so it works on some voodoo magic (or science) which requires water use on the outside of the drum during the dry cycle. That water gets collected in the bottom of the washer and after every load you have to empty it. This is what it looks like:
So I hate my washing machine. And I will never ever forgive it for being so horrible.
LG Washer/Dryer Combo: Consider yourself on notice.
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| OKAYWIFE brand. Makes a contented family! |
One thing I do keep up on is the laundry. I'm very touchy about having clean clothes and I like to make Dan's life easier by keeping his clothes folded and neat so he doesn't have to play the puzzle game "Match the Black Dress Socks" every morning (it takes him long enough to get ready as it is). So I do laundry. A lot. And I despise my washing machine.
It's not just a washing machine, it's a washer/dryer combo. "But that sounds great! You don't have to switch over the laundry, you just let it go and come back when it's done!" You're right, hypothetical person, that does sounds great. But that's not how it works. Well, that's kind of how it works, but there are a few things about the machine that make it obnoxious to work with.
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| Excuse my while I freshen my drink. I hate this machine so much it's driven me to drink. |
First, the door locks on the machine while the cycle is in progress. This makes sense. You don't want to open the door while it's full of water and get water all over your floor or have a child sucked into it's spinning, or whatever. Unfortunately, it doesn't unlock when the cycle is over. It only automatically unlocks after a dry cycle after it's done it's 4 hour "Wrinkle Reduce" cool down or you restart the cycle and pause it and wait 5-10 minutes while I scream "Gimme my freaking clothes!" at it.
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| Smug bastard. |
Second, it takes forever to dry something. Literally, forever. I have put clothes in there to dry for 5 hours and I still had to hang them up to dry when they came out. Here's the estimated cycle time for three regular size bath towels:
That 3 hours and 25 minutes is just an estimate, mind you. It'll definitely take longer than that to run all the way. I usually stop it during the last ten minutes and hang the stuff up to dry. Some people hang dry all of their clothes here. To that I say "Bah!" because that can take days.
I don't have a balcony, and even if I did, it would be against the rules of the apartment and the municipality to line dry my clothes out there (gotta keep the buildings looking nice for the sandlot outside my window!). So I would have to hang them up inside my glacially cool apartment, in a country where the humidity is so high water routinely condenses on my windows or my sunglasses when I walk outside. So foregoing the dry cycle completely is out.
Third, and worst, is the condenser that you have to empty after every load. See, the dryer doesn't have an outside vent so it works on some voodoo magic (or science) which requires water use on the outside of the drum during the dry cycle. That water gets collected in the bottom of the washer and after every load you have to empty it. This is what it looks like:
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| That's what all the towels are for. |
So I hate my washing machine. And I will never ever forgive it for being so horrible.
LG Washer/Dryer Combo: Consider yourself on notice.
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