when your doing laundry...

[xraytech]

I typically do not set and watch the wash. I do watch it start to fill as I add the detergent and then add the clothes laid in evenly and in a certain order. Once the washer is filled I go about my dusting and vacuuming and also cooking stuff for me to take for lunch(I am the envy of all my co- workers for the 3-4 course lunch I take every day) between loads and as they are dry I fold clothes on the coffee table in the living room while watching re-runs of Mama's Family or All In The Family and Iron my scrubs and lab coats in the kitchen(I still use an old TAB soda bottle with a sprinkler to dampen my clothes and roll up and pres and heavy starch to obtain a perfect wrinkleless uniform with crisp double pleated slacks with my old GE steam iron.I tend to be very old school and set in my ways even at such an early age.

I never ever leave the house or go to bed with the washer or dryer on because grandma set the fear of God into me about the chance of there being a fire.

As much as I would love to set and watch the entire wash cycle I would never get the cooking, cleaning, and ironing done

 

[autowasherfreak]

I started a load of wash the other day, and I usually watch it for a few minutes. Well this day I must have been very tired, I started to fall asleep standing up while watching the clothes tumbling away in my Frigidaire.

 

[frigilux]

Front-load washer: Set it, walk away.

Top-load washer: I like to watch through the first few minutes of agitation, then I'm off.

 

[thomasortega]

Always in front of the machines.

I always use all 8 at the same time

I don't like to use the softener dispensers because the brazillian softeners are too thick, three of my machines don't have dispenses and also I'm usually chatting on msn with some AW colleagues or my Orkut community's colleagues.

No matter what machine I use, after it's done, I always spin at the Electrolux Ecoturbo (AKA Frigidaire Affinity)

The only load I don't watch is the last dryer load.

My loads usually are:

Whites - Electrolux Ecoturbo
Light colors - Electrolux LE750
Dark colors - Electrolux LT60
Blacks - Enxuta Sollo
Towels - Electrolux LQ11
Jeans - Newmaq Atlanta (semi-automatic I bought when Joh ws here.
My mom's lingerie - Brastemp Eggo (Eco egg)
Delicates - Brastemp eggo or Enxuta Sollo
mops, cleaning towels or kitchen towels (of course not together) - Chinese Mini Twin tub
Bed sheets - Eletrolux ecoturbo or Electrolux LE750
Duvets - Electrolux Ecoturbo or Electrolux LQ11
Sneakers - Electrolux LQ11 using the sneakers accessory

it takes up to 2 hours to do everything, considering I have to fill the machines one by one because my gas instant water heater is the smallest model available and it gives only 8 liters/minute of almost boiling water.

 

[qsd-dan]

I hang around to listen for the cycle changes. I custom tailor my own cycles on the Maytag using the entire timer dial and need to be within earshot to make the necessary adjustments.

Maytag procedure:

Add clothes

Add detergent and Oxiboost in center of agitator and select "Regular" cycle.

Listen for machine to start agitating and carefully watch for any under/overloading for a minute or two. If all is good, I take care of other chores within ear shot.

After the first spin is nearly completed, advance timer to "Permanent Press" cycle and choose rinse water temp. Add fabric softener.

Let clothes agitate for 5 min for "Extra Large" load setting (4 min for "Large" 3 minutes for "Medium" never have used “Small”).

Advance timer to the beginning of the "Spin" cycle portion of the "Delicate" cycle.

"Regular" cycle is now only 1 click away and the process begins again.

 

[whitekingd]

SHIT!!

I start the machine filling, then add detergent, then load the clothes. THEN, go grab a BEER and stand there and watch the DAMN thing the rest of the cycle. That's wash day for me! FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[oldwasherguy]

I always watch my Maytag in action

1972 A606

 

[revvinkevin]

Well........

When I only had my Frigidaire FL set, I would "generally" start it and walk away, on a few rare occasions I would sometimes watch it.

NOW..... that I have a "collection" and I am using those more often then the "primary set", will stay there and watch or change settings, or start a load in one machine and finish it in another!

 

[ptcruiser51]

Laundry Room

is across the street from me in my complex. Seven new Maytag commercial machines, $1.50/load but they hold quite a bit. Our miserable landlord has the valves adjusted on the machines so only a trickle of hot water comes in if you set it for "hot", if you set it for permanent press or anything else, you're getting an ice-cold wash, my friend. I used to stand like an idiot waiting 20 minutes for the hot to fill, then change the cycle to permanent press (cool-down) to at leat get some semblance of a second rinse. One day it dawned on me: "Hey, I sell these damned things! I should be able to remedy this!" Next visit I bring my vise-grips, hit the shut-off on the wall, disconnect the hot-water hose, fill the washer(s), reconnect hose, DONE! I usually do 3 loads at a time, go back across the street and set the timer for 20 minutes and do chores. Come back and put sheets, towels, pants and sox in the dryer (those industrial dryers are murder on everything else). Take everything across the street and hang on fold-out dryer or hangers on bathroom shower curtain rod. Go back when timer sounds, which gives me time to pull sheets out and fold while everything else is on cool-down. Finished. Then later I iron when hanging stuff is just a trace damp.

Anyone remember that old Eddie Murphy routine from SNL?

"Kill My Landlord!"
"Kill My Landlord!"
"C-I-L-L. My Landlord!"

 

[autowasherfreak]

For those of you that have multiple machines, do you ever have problems deciding which washer to use? If I had a collection like Roberts and others. When laundry day came around, I would probably just stand there in the middle of laundry room thinking about which machine to use until I got a headache. LOL.

If I had a top loader nothing would get done on laundry day. I would stand there through the whole cycle watching it's every move. I did this when I was a kid. Mom would always yell down to me what are you doing, and I would reply watching the washer. She would always reply back, it's automatic, and doesn't need you.

 

[xraytech]

Jim,
If I had a large collection of washers like Robert it would be easy for me to decide on wash day, I would do the same as my vacuum collection and have a set schedule of which machine gets used that day and follow the schedule written on my calendar, yes I really am that OCD to have a schedule of what machine to use and on what day because we dont want to go out of order.

Sam

 

[newwave1]

I have mutiple machines and find i go through stages of using one machine more than other for a couple weeks then i'll use another, though thats not strictly true as i've been using my zanussi machines lots and lots lately, but thats because there my favourite lol!

Darren