This is what my wife and I started with back in the mid 90s.
Actually a decent low end Kenmore washer and dryer. We put ours through hell durning the early years of our marriage - kids at home and laundry running, at times, morning, noon and night. My wife had these 3 or 4 years before we met and married when she was working for a chalet rental business in Gatlinburg, TN in the early 90s and ended up going thru a nasty divorce that left her bankrupt and single with 3 kids to raise. The folks that ran the chalet business were really good folks and really liked my wife and they gave her their Sears card to go and purchase a washer and dryer after her old ones quit and these are the models she bought and they deducted from her check over time and they were paid back.
After we used the machines and moved to new housing and appliances - her son took the washer and one of her daughters took the dryer. Altogether, between us all, we got nearly 20 years out of both machines before they wore out. We now have a large GE front-load and dryer set from 2008 - both still going strong after 5 years. Only issue has been the dryer heating element which was replaced about 6 months ago. My next set, when the time comes, will probably be the large Speed Queen front-load and dryer in stainless. SQ seems to be better built with better material and here in the states as well - wish I had known this 5 years ago as I probably would not have gotten the GE set.
My vintage machines right now are 1963 Kenmore 600 washer just like my mother had and a White-Westinghouse Spacemates front-load and matching dryer from the late 70s or early 80s.
