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Well Bob, using the DW 2 to 3 times daily sounds like a lot of wasted water for a 2 person household. When I do the dishes by hand I don’t leave the water running and probably only use approx. 2.5 gals to wash the dinner dishes. I rinse the dishes over the side of the sink that I’m washing the...

Wow Bob, no need to be rude! I have a “life” and just because I don’t share your love for dishwashers is no reason to be out and out rude. You do you. I’ll utilize my time as I see fit. And I can assure you that my use of water washing the dishes is conservative, probably less than those...

In August of ‘74 I bought a ‘74 Nova that was the dealership demo for $2995. It was a 2 dr coupe with a 250 six and a three speed manual with the shift lever mounted on the floor. I traded my ‘55 Cadillac 2 dr HT for this car because I was planning a road trip from here to Vancouver, Wash...

I haven’t had a car without power windows since ‘89. Now it’s difficult to find any new car that doesn’t have power windows. However, during the last several years in my area there have been at least 4 or 5 instances that I can recall where a car has gone into the drink and all the...

My Mom only had a DW that worked for about 2 months in 1962, a 1956 Westinghouse DW that was in the home we moved into a just 6 weeks before my Dad died in an auto accident. Shortly after his death the DW stopped working and we had far more pressing financial issues than repairing/replacing a...

Re: #7 Mike your Christmas dinner looks great! We had Ham too, with Au Gratin Potatoes, Peas with Pearl Onions and Homemade Dinner Rolls with a lovely non alcoholic Rose wine. I made Potato Salad too, but this was for Christmas Eve dinner with Salami and Cheese and Homemade Rolls. David loves...

When my Aunt Louise was 17 through 21 years old she worked at the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif. during WWII building Victory Ships. When she was in her late 60’s she was diagnosed with Mesothelioma from her exposure to Asbestos while working in the shipyard building Victory Ships. She...

On Labor Day weekend of 1971 I went to San Diego, Calif.with my then boyfriend Art to visit his sister and bro in law. They drove us to the border to go to Tijuana, Mexico. We rode in their Datsun 240 with Art and I riding in the back of the hatchback with the lid partially open as we held on...

My Aunt Louise had a Norge Timeline Washer just like the one in the POD. We had one of it’s sister ships, a Hamilton Timeline automatic washer and we also had a Norge Timeline dryer like the one in the POD, except the knobs on ours were black instead of red. The dryer had a brake lever near...

The first refrigerator that I can recall my family having was a small Servel that was probably a late 1930’s model. When I was a teenager and we moved to the Sonoma County Coast our neighbors 3 miles up the road in Seaview, Calif, had an old Servel out on the back porch and it ran off of...

BTW, I got rid of that GE Hydrowave for an LG FL because I was feeling guilty for using so much water to do the laundry. I had always been a proponent of FL’s before buying that LG FL which was a complete and total disappointment! I so wish that I’d kept that dependable GE washer that always...

The last washing machine that I owned with an electro-mechanical timer was a GE Hydrowave that I bought in about 2010 and used with no problems for over 2 years. I thought that it was a pretty good, simple washing machine. These GE washing machines have gotten lots posts that complain about...

There’s a somewhat funny story about how we came to have our current artificial tree. When we moved here in 1994 we knew that we’d want to place the tree in front of the window and the electric baseboard heater is right under that window. In he past we’d always had either a cut tree or a live...

We put our tree up this weekend. It’s a two day job. Saturday we assembled and fluffed out our 18 year old artificial tree and strung the lights on it. Then on Sunday we hung all the ornaments and set out the Nativity Scene. With 44 years of Christmas’s together we’ve amassed a whole lotta...

If you want your bar soap to last longer buy it far in advance and store it for several weeks or months before using it. This allows the excess moisture to evaporate and the soap to harden and then it won’t melt away so quickly. I buy Ivory Bar soap and Zest in paks of 8 to 12 bars remove the...