Recent content by kate1

This is more than a little ridiculous to me. I don’t like ‘squirt and wipe’ cleaning for most things anymore anyway. I much prefer diluting soap or a little all-purpose cleaner in a bucket of hot water and using a dish cloth to actually scrub things down with my hot, soapy water. I don’t end up...

I am a mail carrier! There are different delivery types based on various factors. Most of my route is walking, so door to door delivering to a box on the porch or a slot. I still drive a standard mail truck. Very little of my route is curbside delivery and then a tiny bit is multi-box units...

My Honda Odyssey is a 2006 and the dash is all blue/white, I spend a lot of time commuting and my morning drive is always in the dark and it doesn’t bother me. I do know that when it comes time to buy a new one, I’m basically getting a base model to avoid the push button ignition and other...

I hate the self clean cycle on ovens, I’m not even convinced the fumes produced during it are safe (a friend’s pet bird was killed by the fumes from a self clean cycle and there is some research that says they may be more toxic to humans than we thought). Easy Off works great, definitely protect...

I will very much miss powdered detergents if they become completely unavailable. I have a bottle of Tide ultra stain release that I use for pretreating stains and I use a liquid specially formulated for delicates on my sweaters and blouses but everything else is washed in Tide with bleach. I...

I don’t know if it’s helpful but here are pictures of the dishwasher

The dishwasher in my home is a Whirlpool W10431031A. It hasn’t worked since I bought the house from my dad. I had assumed he had tried getting it fixed and it was just dead so I was planning on replacing it when I could, this is apparently not the case, he never had any service technician out to...

So when she went shopping the salesman at the appliance dealer was really pushing GE. I don’t have a high opinion of GE appliances in general, but especially not their laundry appliances. I worked at a hospital that had a GE front loader that we used for the specialized pediatric equipment that...

I sent the link to my mother in law, her first car was a FIAT. Fix it again Tony is right, she was lucky that car was so small she could push it out of the way by herself and wait for a tow when it broke down. It got her in trouble once because she broke down in West Hollywood and she had to...

I feel overheated just reading this thread. It reaches 80+ in my house and I start putting my pillow in the freezer before bed and opening windows and taking off clothes, by far summer is my least favorite time of the year and my worst season for good sleep. Living in a northern climate though...

So this is maybe a tangential question, but apparently sis’s girlfriend is a more serious relationship than I was originally aware of (they’re talking about moving in together YAAAY!) and her girlfriend is a nurse. She currently washes her scrubs in a Samsung front loader that came standard in...

So let’s replace clean burning, low emission, efficient household gas appliances and replace them with all electric appliances pulling power from coal fired power plants. That’ll fix climate change.

Is the SQ stacked unit a nightmare to move? My sis is a renter and likes the idea of having her machines stacked due to the potential of ending up in a rental that only has space for stacked machines at some point. She’s childless, and likely always will be, currently not living with anyone but...

She looked at the Speed Queen front loaders but they lack a hand wash cycle. Are they really the only choice for quality laundry machines? Her LGs are only 18 months old and the washer is completely dead, she’s had technicians out four times for repairs on it and now they’re telling her to just...

My sister has had it with her LG top loader and wants recommendations for a new front loader. Her main requirement is that it have a true hand wash cycle for silks and woolens, she owns a lot of those types of things and is sick of washing them herself. She also wants a durable, high quality...