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I do miss quieter shopping experiences and believe it or not, Muzak instrumentals. I also miss the sound the simpler electronic or older PC-based registers would make as the clerk keyed in your purchases; it printed the receipt line by line. Those were miniature dot matrix printers, usually...

@wishwash: I think Whirlpool would be content with this because washing machines don't last as long as a range or refrigerator. Most washers these days are lucky to see 10 years, in some cases it is less than five, so they'll snag more sales when people flock to the store (or online) to replace...

I'm all for keeping American jobs here but the toothpaste is already out of the tube. Tariffs can harm the economy and stifle the market. The best thing to do is to incentivise companies with tax breaks if they show tangible proof that they added American jobs (with no trickery or creative...

Ran across this on Offer Up. Posted pics in case the auction ends. $175 is enticing for something I will probably never see again. Needs a new plug but that's no biggie at all. Alas, I have no real use for it, nowhere reasonable to put it (I already have a garage fridge) and a wife that would...

I spy a Wascomat blue top! I would have loved to be able see one in action. I don't go to laundromats because I don't need to, but all of the laundries in a 50-mile radius have the "boring" new machines, judging by what I see at a glance driving by these places. Oh, well, machines wear out...

looks kinda sorta like mine... Except it's not an Elite and it doesn't have adustment knobs and the little LCD. The body seems similar in appearance to mine though. On mine, the Kenmore logo is the bland "infinity" one that they use currently. I've had it for three years and I like it. It feels...

Yes, but seldomly. My wife and I are OCD and frying in the house is a big no-no, so on the rare occasion we want to deep fry something we do it out on our deck with a Fry Daddy (or do regular frying with an electric skillet for something like bacon, burgers or fish). However, living in the PNW...

My 2014 Whirlpool's stainless panels are actually fabricated as stainless and not just glued on. The control panel is black with a stainless inset, which does not appear to be glued on. That may have changed between then and now, though. The OTR WP micro (which I no longer have as I replaced...

Had Christmas dinner over at my sister in law's new home. Had a very delicious prime rib dinner. While conversing and snacking on hors d'ouevres in the kitchen, I looked around. I came around to the range, and I just couldn't help but notice something a wee bit disturbing. Most of us know that...

Montague makes (or made) a horizontally-opened oven... Instead of swinging outwards the two door halves opened from the top and bottom. I was on the job replacing a remote condenser for an ice machine in a hospital kitchen. There, I saw an oven that I assumed to be an unusually small...

Correct me if I'm wrong... ...as I wasn't even a twinkle in somebody's eyes back in the Hobart days of KitchenAid, but there were only two models back then: the 4.5qt head-lift model and the 5qt bowl-raise model, each with their own motor, right? I have the 4.5qt Classic in white. I'm not a...

I have a Kenmore (LG) FL and if I had to say something I disliked about it I think it would be how it spins. There's just no rhyme or reason. I've had a load full of denim jeans go into spin relatively quickly while whites (t-shirts, towels and sheets) makes the machine hesitant into spinning...

I had a 2000ish Kenmore 90 Series... ...but with electromechanical controls rather than the electronic touchpad. It also had a Triple Action agitator. With small and medium loads, the upper part of the agitator did move. It didn't work well with heavy blankets and the like. It came with the...

Every day at work (furnaces, heat pumps and AC condensing units, some RTUs). It's a big pile. Refrig gets evacuated and the scrap guy comes by once a week (or twice a week if needed. Nothing interesting in the pile usually. Most of it is less than 15 years old. Outside of work, not much...

WAIT, there was a SPEED QUEEN-branded MICROWAVE??? Though the name does make sense. Microwaves are primarily for speed cooking. I do know that SQ was owned by McGraw-Edison before being handed off to Raytheon and then Alliance), was Litton a McGraw-Edison company? Speaking of microwaves, I've...

I use Persil Intense Fresh liquid or Arm & Hammer powder for everyday loads, and Boardwalk Huracan 40 for suds-sensitive/white loads. The Huracan 40 is great for pillows and mattress pads, basically anything that would act as a giant sponge and create air pockets which would cause suds to...

I think the best looking washer and dryer is a Kenmore ...from the late '80s to early '90s. You know, the ubiquitous black control paneled ones with the fake wood on top. Second would be the GE FilterFlo from the late '70s up until the late '80s when they did away with the "classic" control...

they still do the hard sell at Sears... Sears still seems to push people from BOL to MOL/TOL, and they REALLY want you to buy the extended warranty. When I purchased my LG/Kenmore TOL steam front loader, which was a discontinued clearance floor model, I was going to buy the matching dryer until...

My first washer was a TOL Kenmore 90 Series washer, circa 2000. It came with my first (and current) house when I bought it and was in immaculate condition. It was running when I replaced it. I wanted a front loader, and so far, I don't regret that decision (don't worry, I made sure the set went...

Cool! It's amazing how long furnaces lasted, just like many other commodities (cars, not so much...). Then again, the new ones are waaaay more efficient, but as I've noticed as a HVACR tech, sometimes holding on to something that works is cheaper in the long run, especially when a simple and...