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This thread is for reporting AA's![ Appliance Abusers! ] We need a national list to protect our treasures.
After we get the list then we must start to segregate the AA's from all appliances.
We also may need a public slapping place for blatant abusers!!

My first report Mrs. Mannion.

1) washer over stuffer --chronic

2) coffee maker abuser --jerks machine around, total lifespan in the home for a coffee maker -2 years tops!

report by jetcone
 
Don't tell anybody, but...

I hate to admit it, but I have been known to occasionally kick the washer and slam the door to the dryer.

Do I qualify for meeting attendance?
 
Mrs. Clark (not her real last name, which is Hystad):

1) Leaves wet laundry in top-loading washer until they smell of mildew, THEN PUTS THEM IN THE DRYER.

2) Never cleans spilled detergent off inside of machine; never cleans in-post fabric softener dispenser.

SLAP-SLAP!!

report by Frigilux
 
My mom overloads, I'm not sure how often but I'm willing to bet she might fit into the chronic overloader category! I caught a stuffed comforter in the Maytag once doing the "160 OPM death thrash".

Thank God I'm the only one who uses the Studio machines.
 
I'll rat my mom out too...

Name: Gladys Parker

Crime: washer UNDER loader--famous for using the full setting on the washer and only half filling with clothes. Result: clothes piled up in one part of the tub resulting in an off balance machine.
Mom killed a Maytag A702 in 11 years, and an A608 in 19 years.

She's also guilty of ignoring dishwashers and disposals and letting them expire from dried seals and such
 
Aha, just the thread i was hoping for, time to rat on the relatives.

Name: Carol Pearson
Crimes: Overstuffing machine resulting in poor to non existent turnover. Using way too much detergent causing inproper rinsing. Overloading the dishwasher and then using the fast cycle resulting in me picking of bits of dried cereal off my dinner knife.

Name: Allison Haigh (aunt)
Crimes: Using Medium water level on Simpson Eziset for every load no matter how big or small.

Name: Jean Haigh (grandmother)
Crimes: Starting the machine on the very final inecrement of wash resulting in a 1 minute- ultimately resulting in us finding dried detergent powder in our undies.

Name: Deborah Campbell
Crimes: Using the Rinse cycles on her front loader to wash clothes- she never uses any of the wash cycles, just starts the machine at the first rinse on the timer. She also uses regular powder in a HE machine.

Here Endeth The Report

Suggested Punishment for all crimes: One months appliance training at AW.org
Reporting officer: Matthew Pearson
 
Next villain

Next villain,
Jeanette Hinds-my sister
Crime:washing every single day for just the 3 of us therefore wasting water and detergent(causing me to have to buy more all the time) and causing unnecessary strain on washer.
Crime 2:Using the accursed fabric softener(aarrgghh),on EVERY single thing she washes thus causing horrible buildup of gunk inside machine.
Solution:No more fully automatic washing machines, changed to manual twintub funny how above problems ceased when there was no more set it and forget it.
Now pardoned from crimes and coming along nicely in rehab.
P.S. but I still love her anyway.
 
id like to report

my mum. She never buys decent detergent, no she uses crappy ariel and own label products, only uses 40 deg synthetic washes on everything and over loads the machine. Everything gets a fast spin, and thrown into a hot dryer in winter. Did i mention she uses Lenor? Yuk. She washes jeans with wooly jumpers and t shirts. And she now wont use softener in the drawer again. She has gone back to running an extra rinse and spin causing extra motor wear when all she needs to is use DECENT DETERGENT LIKE PERSIL to get a good rinse. She also over loads the dryer, sets the timer for too short and leaves em slightly damp in there til she remembers like 2 days later and they stink. Rant Over. Nick
 
just a question...

Might it also be helpful to burn the worst of them as washer-heretics at the stake or do you think dunking is more adequate to a washer-crime??
Or do you think a strict washing-exorcism might help either??
Any other idea that might be helpful against those washer-witches and washing-sorcerers??

lol....Ralf
 
Shocking stories,all......

I don't remember the name,but a friend of a co worker couldn't afford a new dryer,so they used their mid 70's Kenmore until the front of the drum was shredded from bad rollers,and seals. It was grinding metal on metal,and finally started destroying clothes,along with cutting into the outer cabinet. I gave 'em a GE,and put the poor Kenmore down........

I also have a mid 70's Kenmore 'fridge,that someone brush painted black,but didn't pull it away from the cabinets,so it's still avocado where the kitchen cabinets were. Does that count?

kennyGF
 
Proclamation & Emanipation plea for retromom!!!

I hearby declare in the year of our Lord-2006 that said above poster Venus/AKA: retromom be emacipated and freed of all punishments associated with AA Abuse.
I have been witness to her personal appliances and can vouch that they are lovingly kept dust free, clean, and as of earlier this year, showed no signs what-so-ever of denting, mold, mildew, or abuse.
Her son, mind you, a TEENAGER no less, should be reported to the proper authorities, or the nearest Teen-Alanon AA Program.
Any temporary abuse done to Automatic Washers or Dryers that was indeed applied by retromom, was done under great emotional and physical stress at times when running a household of 1-said male teenager, and pre-teenage daughter, one husband, and a myraid of animals, while trying to handle numerous e-bay auctions, and figuring out what vintage coffemaker to use that morning.
Such abuse in the future should be considered when dealing with the abuser and applied to the bylaws and acts of the 12 step program.
My name is Maytagmom, and I am not an enabler or appliance abuser. But I do have a brother in law who washes dishes before putting them in the DW. I will pray for his soul on a daily basis for the next 2 wks, but it will not do any good.
I will pray for the souls of all these other AA's. This is my resolution for 2007.
Thank you, and I will step down now and have a cup o' spiked coffee now, lovingly perculated in my Vintage Red West Bend Flav-O-Matic with cream covered Bakelite handles and base.

Best regards,
MaytagMom
 
anyone have a cigarette?

Oh yeah, they are going up a dollar a pack on Jan 1st....you better stock up now!
"Cept for the Indian Casinos"...no tax there, from what I have been told.
I've cut back...waaaaaaaaay back recently. But still...
I need to quit *sigh*
 
anyone have a cigarette?

1 year, 7 months smoke free here, I quite totally cold turkey, and will never go back...

Its not as hard as you think it is to quit!
 
And after you've quit for awhile, you wonder why on Earth you ever put your lungs through the trauma of smoking. I quit hard drugs close to twenty years ago, cigs six years ago and alcohol over two years ago. I was worried I'd find straight-edge reality boring, but it hasn't been too bad. In fact, I've lost all interest in being altered by chemicals. Calories: The Final Frontier, LOL.
 
Maytagmom very funny lady

Maytagmom should not fret for her clear and unbridled sorrow for sins of the past have nearly set her free.
She and I will have a date in Purgatory to work off the balance of our sins. I have been guilty of leaving coins and "posty notes" in the pockets of my clothes being washed through ignorance but not malice. I calculate about 14.5 hours for those sins. I sent my Coffeemaster ahead. We'll have fun. Bring cookies.
 
Can we move that date up a little bit Paul??

I ain't gettin' no younger or better looking!

Cookies??? FEH!

How 'bout I bring the Crown Royal, Dark Bacardi Rum, a bottle of 2004 Chardonney I recieved at the hotel room in Vegas, and a 6 pack of Tecate?

I still have a few sins to commit before the end of the year!

Bed AND Breakfast await thee in Texas. Please make reservations soon, as it fills up quickly. I have Saturday night full right now.

I am getting desperate! LOL

PS: Bring laundry for the Maytag 606, but nothing that needs hot water. I will show you how to get whites sparklin' white without hot water! LOL
 
we're all forgiven... I hope

I think all of us at one time or another is guilty of abusing an appliance, certainly not intentional anyway.

I'm guilty too, I've overloaded the washer here and there(not my Maytag anyway!), I don't always remember to clean the lint screen on the dryer, I've fed corn cobs, pork chop bones, and celery to the disposal, and I've gone thru 3 toasters in 10 years.
I'll bake a cake Paul!
 
Appliance abuse?

Needed to fix mom's gas stove. Near TOL Hardwick brand from early 70's in brown, with waist-high broiler. Interior of oven door was SS. I approaced it with a DRILL. Mom did not bat an eye-lash or even leave the room! LOL

I suppose it WAS sort of crying at the (ab)use it got. The right door hinge squeeled like a stuck pig. (Lube did not help.) It was so bad that friends on the other end of the phone would become alarmed. LOL
 
M is for the musty odor from wet clothes hanging in the cloest
O is for OVERLOAD
T is for trip, as in out-of-balance switch
H is for high, her default dryer setting
E is for excessive amounts of suds
R is repair, which the poor washer needs after 6 months of abuse, ahem, use.
 
I have several AA's

1) My mother had a girl friend that had 4 kids and a slant front 1957 or 1958 Westinghouse laundromat. Always left clothes in the machine when after it had finished. I never saw the machine empty. The outer tub was of course metal. The machine always as far back as I can remember leaked water. When she replaced it in 1964 or 65 my dad brought the machine home for me to play with. Found a rusted out hole in the outer tub from the excess moisture since the washer always had wet clothes in it.

2) My sister! We had a 1971 bottom of the line Hotpoint washer. It lasted only 5 years from my sister craming it so full of clothes it could barely opertate. Also it washed clothes for 8 people at the time.

3) My late father-in-law's widow. She always washes little itty bitty loads in an super DD Kenmore washer and drys them in a super cap. Kenmore dryer. White load: 2 bath towels, 1 pair of panties, 2 wash cloths maybe one dish cloth. By the widow's standards it was overloaded with that many clothes in it. But she always complains about their high utilities rates. When my father-in-law passed away this past September my wife and I had been at her house for over a week and of course ran out of clean clothes. I washed 1 large load of colored cloths in her washer while she went to the store. She came back in and wanted to know why I washed our clothes on the large setting versus the med. to extra small setting. I told my wife I'll take them to a laundromat before I would wash there again. She runs the dishwasher the same way and ALWAYS washes the dishes before loading them into the dishwasher.

4) Another friend of my mom's leaving detergent piled all the around the lid area. I think it was an older BD Kenmore. There was no paint left on the top of the machine. It was so Nasty!!!!

5) My cousin! She never ever (unless she has started in the last few years) sorted clothes before washing them. Including diapers, husband's dirty work clothes everything was washed together. Their clothes never looked clean. Even their son's diapers were always a pale red or blue color. Plus she always left the last load of the day in the machine until ready to do another load which could be 2 to 3 days later. YECCH! She always used cheap A@# detergent I mean like something like lower then Dollar Store no name brand!

6) My Grandmother. She had a 1958 Kenmore washer/dryer combo. She baby sat that thing until it died in 1966. Replaced with a 1966 Westinghouse heavy duty top loading washer and dryer bought from GA. power. She never ran the washer or dryer unless she was in the same room sitting in a chair listening to make sure nothing happened while they were running.

You can see how I spent my childhood years when I was out with my mother! Always looking for the washing machine!
 
Quitting Smoking YEA!

I forgot to mention I have been quit smoking for over 19 years now! But they are still days I could light one up as big as a car!
 

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