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I always remove the toilet seats while cleaning my toilets. I have an old Kenmore Elite, with an easily removable upper rack, hooked up in my garage that I use for utility cleaning. I wash the seats in there. It's also great for cleaning my cat's litter boxes. Good thing I don't use it for...

I still have an ancient bottle of Mrs. Stewart's Blueing. It only takes a few drops in the final rinse, and I have used it from time to time.

I never put any cookware that has a non-stick coating, in my dishwasher. Also, in my experience, the rainbow pattern on other items, is a sign that I've used too much detergent. I wipe them out or if need be, wash them in warm soapy water. Over the years, I found that doing this makes the...

Jealous, I am! These were great dishwashers due to their design and reliability. The mechanical timer in these rocks as it is less susceptible to failure like the newer solid-state control boards. With this kind of timer, it is easy to use the machine as a plate warmer as well. The washing...

Tis a puzzlement! Today's appliances look like they are built like tanks. Sadly, their longevity and/or reliability doesn't show that to be true, though most perform very well. I am reminded of the TOL Electrolux front loader that my late husband and I owned. It appeared to be very sturdy, and...

This is a true story, from way back in the early 1950's, that most of the older folks in my small town swore was true. "A widow purchased a New Chevrolet equipped with PowerGlide automatic transmission. She used some of the money left by her late husband, who usually drove, as she couldn't drive...

IIRC, this dishwasher is very easy to use, but has no soil separator. (food particle filter) This means it has a tendency to re-deposit food particles on the items it is washing.

If I dry large loads in my LG dryer, the dryness sensor works perfectly. I do always have to use timed dry cycles for small loads. The moisture sensor won't work at all for those and shuts the dryer off after just a few minutes. I think the most accurate moisture-sensing dryer I've ever owned is...

My parents had this exact dishwasher in the same color. It matched their 40" Flair range, and side-by-side refrigerator.

"Tragic Lint Filter" is indeed a correct reference to the under-the-tub passive lint filter. After 8 years of service, I gave my TOL direct drive a thorough cleaning, removing the tub because I thought the lint filter might need attention. I was so wrong! There wasn't a speck of lint in it after...

"The number you have dialed has been changed, the new number has been disconnected."

Many years ago, I noticed that my mom's friend's Sunbeam vacuum coffee maker, made far better coffee than mom's Sunbeam percolator. The vacuum-made coffee had a full flavor taste without the burn or bitterness that came from percolator machines. Percolator machines can make good coffee, if you...

Eddie, I remember the timing device used by toll switchboard operators. It was called a "Calculagraph." When the call was connected, the operator would put a ticket in it and pull the left handle and remove the ticket. The machine would print a little clock on the ticket with the start time...

Our DE-806 HOH dryer was very accurate, but painfully slow at drying towels or jeans. The thermostatic dryness control on a few dryers I've had since then was acceptably accurate, but did a much better job with sensing small load dryness than my current LG, which just runs for a few minutes and...

The best drying dishwasher I've ever had was my Maytag non-reverse rack 1997 model. Since then, I had a new GE that came with our new house, and a KitchenAid TOL. The GE caught fire as the control board would often turn on the heating element, but not fill with any water. The KitchenAid washes...

When I was growing up and through my teens, our household mixer was a Dormeyer. KitchenAid mixers were not available anywhere in the small-town city in which I was a child/teen. If a home didn't have a Dormeyer, then they had a Sunbeam with the bullet-shaped black rear control. Occasionally, our...

My late husband had the most delicious and clever sense of humor. While in college, we lived in an older multi unit apartment complex. While preparing Sunday breakfast one morning, the toaster started to smoke and spark. He took it apart to see if something got caught in the wiring, when out...

We had one in the last half of the 80's. It was one of the best dishwashers we've owned, along with our non-reverse rack Maytag in the 90's.

My TOL KitchenAid has needed a main motor replacement, leaking repair from a bad float gasket/seal, flimsy rack, rack clips that keep coming off, etc. So glad the big stuff was under warranty. However, the drying performance sub-par with it not being able to dry even hard surfaces. I bought it...

For a few model years, Waste King dishwashers had a quirky but non-mechanical detergent dispenser. It had two compartments on the sides that would fill with water during the pre-rinse. The right one had a small hole of which the water could slowly drain out, unbalancing the dispenser on its...