I had a pair at my old house; my late great-grandmother purchased it for my family around early 2004. It was a replacement for a Whirlpool set that came with the house in 2001 (apparently, the dryer took too long to dry clothes). The Maytag washer was very robust. Excellent washing and rinsing performance, thanks to a powerful agitator that created strong turnover. However, it was just plain noisy, and certain loads of bedding were prone to throwing the machine off-balance. The matching dryer worked just as well, fully drying every load of laundry.
This Maytag set is where I first started doing laundry at home, during my later teen years. I had previously done laundry while in high school, so this was a very important life skill to learn at home.
However, in early 2013, the washer died, likely as a result of washing my bathrobe by itself. I was taking down our Christmas tree, completely unaware that the machine had gone off-balance and was walking to the left. It was at that point that the washer was no longer filling with water; the agitator would simply move without any water every time we turned the washer on. So my dad did a lot of research on new washers, and bought an LG WM2650HWA washer to replace the Maytag with (our first-foray into front-loaders). In the interim, my mom and I had to drive down to the laundromat a couple times to get our laundry washed. It was a bit pricey to use their washers. The dryer still worked, so we brought the clean, wet clothes home in trash bags to dry them without the further expense of using the laundromat dryers.
I assumed that we were going to buy the matching LG dryer later down the road, but that ultimately didn't happen. The Maytag dryer just refused to die. However, in later years, my dad had to buy a couple of replacement parts for it, namely the timer and one of the drum baffles. So our washer and dryer were forever mismatched, even by the time we sold the house five years ago.
