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Now that's not a bad idea. It's a gas dryer and we do have gas hookups in the laundry area. But we're still using our Whirlpool set with Electric Dryer.

BTW, this is the same woman who was complaining that her KitchenAid dishwasher wasn't cleaning well. When I inspected it I found she was only putting in a dime sized squirt of Palmolive Gel in the detergent cup. She also had a roasting pan on the front of the rack standing upright so it covered the detergent cup completely.
I gave her a lesson about how to properly load a dishwasher and how much detergent to use in it. A single bottle of liquid dishwasher detergent would last this woman an entire year!

And I thought most people knew how to use their appliances.
 
No it's not vintage. It looks like it's from around the 2000 era, so 96 would be about right. I'm going to try to retrieve it before the new dryer comes because it is in such good condition, very minty. I'll store it in my garage maybe one day I will need it. But the WP dryer I have now is going on 20 years old and never had one single problem with it, it even has the original dryer light bulb in it!
 
Karen talked to this neighbor this morning and she found a Kenmore Elite Steam Dryer that she liked. This woman asked the salesperson if she could dry clean in it and wash leather and the salesperson told her "This dryer will dry anything you want to put in it", it'll dry clean too!".

So she bought it. At least now we know who to refer her back to when disaster strikes. What ever happened to common sense?
 
Poor dryer. looks like a left behind, in a rotten shed, with leaking roof.

As for common sense. Especially with the over 70 crowd.... They are more likely to splurge on crap that isn't needed. These people, especially, were exposed to the Madison Avenue venue earliest, and are most likely NOT to have defenses to it.  So they actually believe that Bigger is Better, that America is THE best and always will be, and other ego pumping crap.

My, almost 80 y.o.,  parents just bought a new $40,000 Ford F-150 truck.

They can't afford it! they don't go anywhere ! They don't work outside the home and other than trips to the grocery store, his sisters, and the post office... he doesn't even have a license any more, and both of them have shrunk so small that they need to boost the seat all the way up just to fit in this Boat.
When they pull into the garage with this TANK, it displaces all the air.
There is hardly any room left to get in and out of this tank. (sigh.)

After all,why buy a used $500 Escort, when a $40,000 land yacht, that will lose 1/2 it's value when you drive it off the lot, will do just as well.

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I think there may be some addiction issues here

This woman is in her late 60's.

But today I was leaving my house and the dryer lady came over and asked me to help her with a FedEx package.

She was trying to send out a FedEx overnight envelope but couldn't figure out how the airbill went inside the clear envelope on the outside of the package. I noticed there was a pill bottle inside the package. I fixed it up for her and she told me why she was sending a pill back to Pfizer the pharmaceutical company.

She said that she has a regular prescription for a blood pressure medication called Xanax. She recently had her prescription refilled as she has for the past 10 years and when she opened the bottle ONE of the pills was split in half on the line you use to break the tablets in half. She had never seen that before so she
went back to the pharmacy that filled the prescription and told the pharmacist about this. He said it was fine, it was just one broken pill but take both halves and she'd be fine. That wasn't a good enough answer for her so she called Pfizer, the manuafacturer and asked them. She said after a long phone conversation with them that the reason the pill must be broken was because it was defective and she is sending in the two halves to have Pfizer analyze the pill to make sure it was safe to take and they would send her a new whole pill.

I asked her how many of these pills she takes every day and she said she takes five of them everyday. She said it was the only way her doctor could get her BP down to the normal range.

Personally, I think this woman doesn't need a appliance repair man, she needs a trip to Betty Ford. She's probably addicted to all hell with Xanax. I have noticed with individuals in the past one of the signs of addiction is strange behaviors.
Well this woman has a ton of them!
 
You're a good neighbor Allen.

 

Things are never what they appear to be on the surface, and sometimes, you don't want to know.

 

If she's that hopped up on pills, she will probably soon forget all about the dryer incident.  You can sleep knowing you did the right, charitble thing.

 

My mother is on probably a dozen different pills as well, which concerns me.  She had quadruple heart by-pass surgery, 3 years ago and has always had high blood pressure.

Still the pills these older generations pop, is disturbing.
 
land yacht

2010   obnoxious, unnecessary, militant, hideous, dependent on fossil fuels like never before, (~~hello, I'm david koch, and through my my and my brother's various companies, we manipulate the American public into thinking they need these over size vehicles, because we know that they will forever be dependent on oil, and the insurance industry.  have a good day watching the ozone disappear.~~)

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Sounds like this lady doesn't have a clue about how to operate or maintain appliances. I wonder how caked up with lint her dryer vent cap is! I hope her LG sourced Kenmore Elite lasts as long as the Whirlpool sourced KM did. And as for steam dryers, what exactly is the advantage they are supposed to offer?
 
I'm not sure what advantages a "steam dryer" offers. Weren't those known as "Filtrators" 50 years ago? LOL.
Just writing this post is making my olfactory senses salivate at the marvelous "ozone-y" smell of Filtrator dried towels!!!
 

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