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When I was a rotten little kid, I had a friend named Darrel. His mom had one of these and yes, I was totally fascinated with it. My poor mom still had a Maytag wringer washer.

My parents had a dishwasher like this. I guess it was OK, but dishes had to be rinsed off before loading, and the plastic impeller frequently got massacred by an errant loose eating utensil.

When I was a teen, my folks had a 1962 HOH electric dryer with the electronic drying sensor, along with the matching washer. It wasn't very fast as a load of towels would take about 75 minutes and its drum capacity was quite small. However, it was ultra quiet (maybe due to the intake air filter...

I loved watching this video. It was so sad to grow into adulthood and watch all of those American brands go away or be sold to offshore companies. The new appliances those companies look good at first, but become junk by the time the warranty has expired. Having said that, WCI, an American...

In 1959, my parents got their first automatic dishwasher. It was nearly identical the Roll-o-matic one in today's POD, though it was branded as a Frigidaire. I'm thinking that it may have been manufactured by D&M. Though it was necessary to rinse items before loading, it was still better than...

Isn't it interesting that, although later on the Laundromats were notorious rust buckets with an anemic spin, I don't remember any of these going through control boards, rear seals and bearings, like the new ones do.

Without having my late husband to share Thanksgiving, I have a Hungry Man frozen dinner waiting for me in the freezer.

WOW! So impressive! As a nerdy kid and teen, I often wondered what it would be like to have an "all you can load" machine like this for home use. Of course a laundromat-type ginormous dryer would complete the set.

I'm curious as to why a quality brand like Speed Queen would source a less-than-mediocre performing dishwasher from D&M. Did D&M ever make a dishwasher with a food particle filtering system?

I had one of these in an apartment when I was working a temp job in another city. It was a belt drive-wigwag model. (buzz, click, snap) I was surprised by how fast it spun. Too bad that WP/KM full-sized models didn't also have that spin speed.

My late partner and I had a Norge-built MW set in the early 80's. They were strikingly beautiful. The washer was quite aggressive, so we often used the slow wash/fast spin combination for most of our regular clothes. For my grimy work clothes back in my blue-collar days, the fast wash/fast spin...

GE learned that many cycles of water (i.e. Wash, Rinse, Rinse, Wash, Rinse, Rinse) helped keep from redepositing of food particles in their machines with no filter.

Our Norge set was great for our laundry and had a reasonably fast spin. The matching dryer, a positive air flow design, put all the lint back on the clothes that the burp-a-lator filter removed. I do have to mention that of all the laundry pairs we experienced back then, this set would get us...

Back in the early 80's, my late partner and I bought this TOL washer made by Norge for Montgomery Ward along with the matching linty dryer. The set was beautiful and the washer was perfect for my work clothes with its aggressive wash action. The only issues were the noise level of the washer and...

In my experiences with many different washers over the years, my 1-18 wins this contest.

I use a Bissel Crosswave floor cleaner. For my OCD, I know that the water with cleaning solution, is always clean during application. This is instead of rinsing the mop out with dirty solution, which is what happens with a mob and bucket. I do use a Swiffer for small clean-ups and spills, but I...

I despise mushrooms, especially raw ones used in salads. Their earthy taste is just not for me. A couple of exceptions are mushrooms sauteed in wine and butter for a steak topping, or on pizza.

I always thought that some of the appliances from the Hotpoint division of GE often had better designs and ideas than it's GE sibling. Instead of a filter pan that had to be removed for loading and unloading, Hotpoint put their recirculating lint filter system around the rim of the tub which not...

When I was a teen and young adult, we had three AM radio stations in our small city in Idaho. One was an NBC affiliate, one was a rock station that shut down at sundown, and one was a country music station that went off the air at midnight. No problem! At night, KOMA out of Oklahoma went...

A few years ago, I rebuilt and rewired a 1960 IronRite rotary iron. It does a great job, especially with napkins, table cloths, and other flat items. It took practice and a video to learn how to iron trousers and shirt. One thing I did notice is that it is no faster than hand ironing. Oh! and...