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A return to Permanence • Write stuff down • Read old Books • Fewer, better things • Lasting Quality

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From shopping lists, to passwords to the Little Black Book that must never be destroyed ... you need pen & paper notebooks.

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@DingBangFook Lol. Front loaders are easier to repair ... 🤣

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Remember your mom's washer? The one with 3 settings that lasted 40 yrs?

It did the exact same thing this Samsung does = washes clothes. That's it.

This one will last 10 yrs if they are lucky and will cost over 1k to replace.

It's a shame the direction we are going.

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I already told you your numbers are wrong based on real world measurements.

Buy a Kill-A-Watt and do your own measurements. Same with fridges. (I would show you mine but I'm currently measuring the actual energy use on a Pepsi machine.)

And hot water does not factor in because 99% of people have hot water tanks that are kept at 120deg.

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Old front loaders did not use 30-45 gallons. You are comparing apples and oranges.

WP direct drives used around 30-32 gallons per load by my own measurement. The current WP top loader using Deep Water and extra rinse (to equal the approx same cleaning result) uses 25 gallons by my own measurement. (And much more if you have an off balance load it needs to try to rebalance.)

Direct drives lasted 30 yrs. Current WP top loaders are lasting 5 yrs. Do the math.

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@DingBangFook BS. Do the calculations but in real life (not based on the energuide.) The savings come nowhere close to the 5 to 10 year lifespan of modern appliances.

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This was the 80s. No phones or electronics to worry about getting wet. Pure family fun.

Few ever get to experience this now.

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

This is the kind of wealth people should aim for in life.

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@Arbormate You are too nice. lol. I relentlessly burn them out in mine.

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@0xdippo It's 12 yrs old my dude. A lot has happened in the appliance industry in that time. Glad you have something that made it past the 10 yr mark though.

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@DontBuyThatYet @bourbonislife80 I don't know of any mechanical timer Speed Queens currently being made/sold.

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@highhertel Brand?

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@Secretpolicia @DontBuyThatYet Wrong. The word 'commercial' is a marketing trick. There are no domestic washers 'rated commercial' that are any good. None. Speed Queen is the only one on the market that is close to being quality. Listen to what the experts (the repair guys) here are saying.

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@0xdippo There are virtually no simple machines that will last. Nobody makes them anymore.

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@DontBuyThatYet @bourbonislife80 There are no Analog Speed Queens.

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@Jenniferfnf I've gone back to a paper calendar too. I'm also doing some writing right now where I'm putting down paragraphs by hand and finishing on my laptop. It's reigniting creativity I had before the digital age.

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From shopping lists, to passwords to the Little Black Book that must never be destroyed ... you need pen & paper notebooks.

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@JeffSchneiderRE Having to change the battery on your tire sensors made sense to same person who decided that a simple tire gauge was too hard for us common people to use.

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@miles_commodore

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Simple. Effective. Will last another 100 years. The toast problem was solved a long time ago, in a very simple way. All the toasters since have added complexity and failure.

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It's honestly crazy that people pay for electric toasters.

They're not easier to use than old-school nonelectric stovetop toasters. They're more expensive. They break and must be replaced far more often.

Nonelectric toasters are more beautiful, more effective, and cheaper.

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@shagbark_hick I am Analog, and I approve this post.

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@aestheticsguyy Taken 1 hour ago.

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@NoahSabich The John Deere field service guys (they call it Sudden Service here) carry more boards than tools on their trucks.

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@TheBrinkOfDeath Guess who else is monitoring your appliances?