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You Know You're A Member of AW When...
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When you're working a stretch
and can't get online there due to the firewall, but you are just dying to find out who's ranting this week about how bad modern HE washers and dishwashers are. Then on off days you sit in front of the computer eating a bag of candy while reading all the responses (and laughing so hard almost wet your pants)! ! ! !
ducks and runs.....!
and can't get online there due to the firewall, but you are just dying to find out who's ranting this week about how bad modern HE washers and dishwashers are. Then on off days you sit in front of the computer eating a bag of candy while reading all the responses (and laughing so hard almost wet your pants)! ! ! !
ducks and runs.....!
When.
You have more than one laundry room and still have appliances in storage.
You have more washers / dryers than you have loads of laundry per week.
You have more than 3 types of detergent, and use all of them.
You cook on your Chambers range and pitty the unfortunate souls who only have a Wolf or Viking.
Your refrigerator's referigerant is neither R12 nor R134a.
You know what refrigerant your refrigerator uses.
You have more than one dishwasher.
You have more than one dishwasher, and you use them!
You use appliances (plural!) with cloth cords.
You have replaced one appliance with an older model.
You yearn for features that used to exist, but are no longer on the market (foot pedals to open dryers and refrigerators!).
You believe washer and dryer consoles should always be lit.
You are in any way bothered by new appliances that last less than 7 years.
You know what a dryer sprinkler is.
You use a dryer sprinkler.
You won't use a washing machine unless you can clean its lint filter.
And finally:
You have the cleanest laundry of everyone you know!
Dave
You have more than one laundry room and still have appliances in storage.
You have more washers / dryers than you have loads of laundry per week.
You have more than 3 types of detergent, and use all of them.
You cook on your Chambers range and pitty the unfortunate souls who only have a Wolf or Viking.
Your refrigerator's referigerant is neither R12 nor R134a.
You know what refrigerant your refrigerator uses.
You have more than one dishwasher.
You have more than one dishwasher, and you use them!
You use appliances (plural!) with cloth cords.
You have replaced one appliance with an older model.
You yearn for features that used to exist, but are no longer on the market (foot pedals to open dryers and refrigerators!).
You believe washer and dryer consoles should always be lit.
You are in any way bothered by new appliances that last less than 7 years.
You know what a dryer sprinkler is.
You use a dryer sprinkler.
You won't use a washing machine unless you can clean its lint filter.
And finally:
You have the cleanest laundry of everyone you know!
Dave
. . . an entree, side dish or dessert is deemed "for VERY special occasions ONLY" because a utensil or cooking vessel required to prepare it isn't dishwasher-safe.
You know you're an aw.org member when...
..you're almost married to another member and you knew each other thanks to an specific washer model you posted almost three years ago.
..you're almost married to another member and you knew each other thanks to an specific washer model you posted almost three years ago.
delaneymeegan
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Aww, that's sweet Thomasortega. Love in the laundry room. I like that.
Thanks. And yes, everything started right here a little bit over 2 years ago and a few hours ago se were exchanging emails about finger size (for the ring) and how we are going to use the last name.
I won't tell who's Mr. Right because he's discreet. if he wants, he'll tell here.
But our closer friends in the group could follow our love and wash story since the beginning.
I won't tell who's Mr. Right because he's discreet. if he wants, he'll tell here.
But our closer friends in the group could follow our love and wash story since the beginning.
One side of the Temperature Selector on your dryer's control panel is too far from the other, so you coordinate your loads so you don't have to go far from one Temperature to the other (Highest to Lowest, Lowest to Highest) eg.
DELICATE LOW MEDIUM HIGH
In other words, I go from Delicate to Medium, High to Low, Low to Medium or Vice-versa, in the above... (I can get this system to work, believe me, I've done it a life-long time since getting this dryer, before!)
-- Dave
DELICATE LOW MEDIUM HIGH
In other words, I go from Delicate to Medium, High to Low, Low to Medium or Vice-versa, in the above... (I can get this system to work, believe me, I've done it a life-long time since getting this dryer, before!)
-- Dave
You go through another extreme: "Appliance Siting"--STALKING, rather!
Yes, spied through a kitchen window in my in-laws' neighborhood, and on a wall, A DOUBLE-OVEN BLACK GLASS DOOR! The four KNOBS were the first most-noticed... Then the ANALOG timer w/ start-stop and the digital clock--a rotating kind, NOT any LED's...
And the brand, most-likely? (I didn't get THAT close, but could easily identify) a GENERAL ELECTRIC... (Not just GE!)
-- Dave
Yes, spied through a kitchen window in my in-laws' neighborhood, and on a wall, A DOUBLE-OVEN BLACK GLASS DOOR! The four KNOBS were the first most-noticed... Then the ANALOG timer w/ start-stop and the digital clock--a rotating kind, NOT any LED's...
And the brand, most-likely? (I didn't get THAT close, but could easily identify) a GENERAL ELECTRIC... (Not just GE!)
-- Dave
More on The Appliance Peeping Tom:
Yes, the wall oven was seen at night, while just going out w/ some mail...
Another "through the window" to the extreme: The top of a Side by Side fridge that looked like it was in Coppertone, but I think turned to Stainless, or might'a been all along... I drove by a house where that somehow noticeably got seen...
I remember a newly-discovered hallway at my high school housing the big home economics dept. (which I wish I had taken!) that had a gallery of Westinghouse electric ranges, a stacked White-Westinghouse washer & dryer, and a built-in cook top & double wall oven, also Westy's the teacher used... This was the '80's, but all were still-working '70's, including the one, or two Westinghouse fridge/fridges, seen through the long window, along the hallway I had just not til that moment, that day, ever trod...!
The middle school I had attended had two Home Ec rooms, three counting an un-used one, still housing a single oven Frigidaire wall oven & pushbutton GE cook-top, and peeking in the working class rooms saw, in addition to the usual Westinghouse stock had Caloric gas ranges--plain ones that only had Self-Clean...! (Later, I worked for the school library & got to make rounds going to classrooms, in MS & HS, so I got to go into the former, but not the latter--there went to other non-HE rooms via that corridor...)
-- Dave
Yes, the wall oven was seen at night, while just going out w/ some mail...
Another "through the window" to the extreme: The top of a Side by Side fridge that looked like it was in Coppertone, but I think turned to Stainless, or might'a been all along... I drove by a house where that somehow noticeably got seen...
I remember a newly-discovered hallway at my high school housing the big home economics dept. (which I wish I had taken!) that had a gallery of Westinghouse electric ranges, a stacked White-Westinghouse washer & dryer, and a built-in cook top & double wall oven, also Westy's the teacher used... This was the '80's, but all were still-working '70's, including the one, or two Westinghouse fridge/fridges, seen through the long window, along the hallway I had just not til that moment, that day, ever trod...!
The middle school I had attended had two Home Ec rooms, three counting an un-used one, still housing a single oven Frigidaire wall oven & pushbutton GE cook-top, and peeking in the working class rooms saw, in addition to the usual Westinghouse stock had Caloric gas ranges--plain ones that only had Self-Clean...! (Later, I worked for the school library & got to make rounds going to classrooms, in MS & HS, so I got to go into the former, but not the latter--there went to other non-HE rooms via that corridor...)
-- Dave
AAH! I'm guilty of another one.
I can name the 3 LeFever brothers on the site and I have met their mother, In her own home.
WK78
I can name the 3 LeFever brothers on the site and I have met their mother, In her own home.
WK78
warmsecondrinse
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- when you get most of your pop culture info on aw.org
- You spend all night in a basement with a bunch of gay men and you leave with a burning ... interest in a particular 1930's downflow oil-fired hot water boiler
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Congrats, ThomasOrtega and nice to hear from you again
- You spend all night in a basement with a bunch of gay men and you leave with a burning ... interest in a particular 1930's downflow oil-fired hot water boiler
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Congrats, ThomasOrtega and nice to hear from you again
You can equate Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry", about TV news reporting from an Anchorman's point-of-view, in a world of media sensationalism and yellow journalism (I remember hearing that song for the first time) with what that song sounds like in the literal term (and likening those sound effects to laundry equipment!) as in dirty clothes--and of course, stuff "aired in public", another literal term, hence the name of one of Forums here at AW...!
-- Dave
-- Dave
You dig a song like "Grandma's Electric Washing Machine" (from the wringer days, post-one-stroke gasoline "lawnmower engine", I'm assuming)...
You bought Joe Walsh's SO WHAT? album 'cause you were curious about a song there called "All Night Laundry Night Blues"--and hear the groan into a washtub & in the chatter at the end of the song, can make out "detergent"...
-- Dave
You bought Joe Walsh's SO WHAT? album 'cause you were curious about a song there called "All Night Laundry Night Blues"--and hear the groan into a washtub & in the chatter at the end of the song, can make out "detergent"...
-- Dave
Couldn't foist the unwanted candy & drink on Granny!
You finally do peer around that corner through the open door at your health club's laundry to see a humongous washer & equally gigantic dryer and even a freight elevator w/ a red light to tell you it's In Use as well as a few other details & items, though can't recall much else about the electronically controlled appliances as in brand name, or anything like that...
-- Dave
You finally do peer around that corner through the open door at your health club's laundry to see a humongous washer & equally gigantic dryer and even a freight elevator w/ a red light to tell you it's In Use as well as a few other details & items, though can't recall much else about the electronically controlled appliances as in brand name, or anything like that...
-- Dave
When you are playing cards and you get queens and all you think is Speed Queen. lol
Jon
Jon
...when you spend over an hour making a video only to share with the aw.org friends.
Yes, "I Did!"...
When you try to sell a replacement plan for a blender (after the person buying it just made you reduce the price to "what he saw it marked for in the aisle") just for him to turn it down, then almost dropping it in his shopping cart yells out "Osters are JUNK, unless it's my '73!" (just randomly gave out a "Harvest Gold-EN Year")...
Since this was one of the new R2D2-looking droids, as opposed to it being my last-"decently-built" machines from 2007--Red & All--from the last good era for it to be still going strong... Whereas this new Two-Thousand-Fifteen, one WILL need that replacement plan before even ONE of the proposed two years (for a MODEST amount, mind you!) passes...
-- Dave
When you try to sell a replacement plan for a blender (after the person buying it just made you reduce the price to "what he saw it marked for in the aisle") just for him to turn it down, then almost dropping it in his shopping cart yells out "Osters are JUNK, unless it's my '73!" (just randomly gave out a "Harvest Gold-EN Year")...
Since this was one of the new R2D2-looking droids, as opposed to it being my last-"decently-built" machines from 2007--Red & All--from the last good era for it to be still going strong... Whereas this new Two-Thousand-Fifteen, one WILL need that replacement plan before even ONE of the proposed two years (for a MODEST amount, mind you!) passes...
-- Dave
cfz2882
Well-known member
...when your brother,staying at your house while on vacation,asks why there are five washers and two dryers hooked up in the basement (and still doesn't get it when the reason is given Or when 2nd hand shop operator wonders what was wrong with the washer you bought 2 wks ago as you buy yet another(old) one...
Or when 2nd hand shop operator wonders what was wrong with the washer you bought 2 wks ago as you buy yet another(old) one...
You get brave enough at the hair salon to try to peek through the door to the back room (still shuttered) to make out a bank of white appliances meaning a washer & dryer for laundering towels, smocks etc.--hey, there is a dryer vent sticking out of the wall at the front of the store I work at! Just not enough steam coming out of it to make it look like a fire...! LOL...
You're warned NOT to be peering in through the door at that neat, same FORTY-INCH FRIGIDAIRE electric stove, when, years before, my sister & I (chaperoned by an "older person" going to the door with us, warning me "what could happen") were going trick or treating on Halloween & some old man lived there (who didn't seem to want to be pulled away from his card game with his buddies, yet had his porch light on, passing out candy anyway!)
<strong>Yet, you're lucky enough, years later, to have a paper route & get to peek into that same kitchen, through that same front door, of that same house, of one customer who moves into there & see the same 40" Frigidaire electric range, while conversing about how she used to "fling newspapers & sling burgers" as I was doing...
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-- Dave
You're warned NOT to be peering in through the door at that neat, same FORTY-INCH FRIGIDAIRE electric stove, when, years before, my sister & I (chaperoned by an "older person" going to the door with us, warning me "what could happen") were going trick or treating on Halloween & some old man lived there (who didn't seem to want to be pulled away from his card game with his buddies, yet had his porch light on, passing out candy anyway!)
<strong>Yet, you're lucky enough, years later, to have a paper route & get to peek into that same kitchen, through that same front door, of that same house, of one customer who moves into there & see the same 40" Frigidaire electric range, while conversing about how she used to "fling newspapers & sling burgers" as I was doing...
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-- Dave
You had your head buried in your local newspapers' classified ads & even regularly bought classified ad publications such as AUTO SWAP and TRADIN' TIMES, even if you'd never bought any of the actual appliances, vans, trucks, automobiles for sale, but were there to look (& perhaps browse through the latter's Personal Ads) and loved what you saw that years later you see & learn more about here...! (& other places, after the dominate Hard Copy Media Age, Online...!)
-- Dave
-- Dave
You watched THE PRICE IS RIGHT as a kid...
Even being told by your mom "it is not a show for kids", but, then, why didn't SHE go on it????!!!!
-- Dave
Even being told by your mom "it is not a show for kids", but, then, why didn't SHE go on it????!!!!
-- Dave
You worry you'll damage your washer if you change the speed while it's running (you would if it's an Olde Tyme GE Filter Flo) so you turn it off (I don't know WHY I had mine washing on Delicate/Extra Slow (with a Slow Spin), almost the entire length of MY clothes in the machine before I realized I forgot to turn the knob to Regular/Slow (with a Fast Spin) after I was washing my daughter's clothes; at least I'd changed the Temperature while it was filling (Warm/Cold to Cold/Cold)...)
You remember a commercial for a radio station showing a man washing the dishes to Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" (Hey, it's the 35th Anniversary of The Boss's THE RIVER album!) and the light fixtures over the sink & the main area of the kitchen look like the exact same globes in mom & dad's (right down to my dad being the one who did--and still DOES!--EVERY dish, pan, pot, tableware, utensil, cup, glass, bowl, etc. BY HAND!!!! (Also looked like the actor (an African American guy, actually) even liked the song to do it on the radio spot, and maybe enjoyed doing the dishes in the wee hours, as seemed to be depicted, which was when my dad did 'em, too...)
-- Dave
-- Dave
You remember a commercial for a radio station showing a man washing the dishes to Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" (Hey, it's the 35th Anniversary of The Boss's THE RIVER album!) and the light fixtures over the sink & the main area of the kitchen look like the exact same globes in mom & dad's (right down to my dad being the one who did--and still DOES!--EVERY dish, pan, pot, tableware, utensil, cup, glass, bowl, etc. BY HAND!!!! (Also looked like the actor (an African American guy, actually) even liked the song to do it on the radio spot, and maybe enjoyed doing the dishes in the wee hours, as seemed to be depicted, which was when my dad did 'em, too...)
-- Dave
-- Dave
You associate THIS SONG with Everything Appliances, etc. (In fact, I c<span data-ft="{"><span class="UFICommentBody">an picture hearing this one on the Muzak system at: ______ --fill in the blank!) It's organist Lenny Dee's version of "Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got"--I can even imagine it playing along to the Buffalo Chopper working to!--... And it's 1973, again:
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<span data-ft="{"><span class="UFICommentBody">-- Dave</span></span>
http://https//www.facebook.com/DaveAMCornerKrayoGuy/videos/10153381381801125/
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<span data-ft="{"><span class="UFICommentBody">-- Dave</span></span>
http://https//www.facebook.com/DaveAMCornerKrayoGuy/videos/10153381381801125/
stricklybojack
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You watch what seems like far too many people posting on threads that sound mundane or
Otherwise unworthy you your time to take a look...the number grows, and grows(!) and finally you cave in and see about whatever-the-hell has got everyone so abuzz...prolly Laundress holding forth on a vintage detergent or some such thing...and in so doing you keep finding out there is so much more to find out.
If someone posted this same basic thought earlier, well, cheers, great minds think alike ;-]
You watch what seems like far too many people posting on threads that sound mundane or
Otherwise unworthy you your time to take a look...the number grows, and grows(!) and finally you cave in and see about whatever-the-hell has got everyone so abuzz...prolly Laundress holding forth on a vintage detergent or some such thing...and in so doing you keep finding out there is so much more to find out.
If someone posted this same basic thought earlier, well, cheers, great minds think alike ;-]
You remember back in 2nd grade, a school project where you bring in empty food containers to learn about volume, weights and measures and one of the containers you bring in is an empty Kleer-Vue windshield washer solvent jug, and another is a 9 Lives cat food can...
-- Dave
-- Dave
You remember back in the white Bradford dishwasher days your dad loading/unloading the dishwasher, filling it w/ the powdered detergent, hooking it up (it was a portable) turning it on, and all! (Though when it went kaput, it was washing everything by hand--HIS hands!)...
And your dad mixing the powdered milk (God knows why we had that stuff, that I don't really remember actually drinking--and thread idea: Powdered Milk: Does anyone still drink? What purpose does it serve?)
So you carry on tradition, being the family Dishmeister (I am charge of the frustration of getting everything in the D-W to fit!) and making the Kool Aid...! (WE are for PIMM'S! Pimm's BERRY Punch...)
Not to mention the tradition of living in our middle-class Detroit-suburbs (city of Oak Park, MI) that seems to hover over me, when in front of our house, shoveling snow...
-- Dave
And your dad mixing the powdered milk (God knows why we had that stuff, that I don't really remember actually drinking--and thread idea: Powdered Milk: Does anyone still drink? What purpose does it serve?)
So you carry on tradition, being the family Dishmeister (I am charge of the frustration of getting everything in the D-W to fit!) and making the Kool Aid...! (WE are for PIMM'S! Pimm's BERRY Punch...)
Not to mention the tradition of living in our middle-class Detroit-suburbs (city of Oak Park, MI) that seems to hover over me, when in front of our house, shoveling snow...
-- Dave
You finagle your washer to do what you want for a given load.
I always use diagnostic mode on my Calypso to purge the hot supply line to insure the wash fill starts immediately at the target temp ... and I always choose a Hot fill with my tankless water heater set at the desired temperature.
Ran a huge load of grungy whites this morning, starting with a 95°F soak/prewash. 1.5 tbsp STPP, 4 tbsp Biz powder, 4 tbsp Fresh Start. Stopped the cycle at end of the soak period, went into diagnostic mode to run 3 mins of nutation (diagnostic mode automatically exits after 3 mins). Let it sit for 10-ish mins, then drain/spin at 400 RPM with a HOT (140°F) spray rinse to preheat the load. Whitest Whites cycle at 140°F wash, 1.5 tbsp STPP, 4 tbsp Persil 2-in-1 liquid, and 1/2 cup LCB (timed dispenser releases at last ~3 mins of the wash period).
... You travel from Brazil to LA and you'll never be bored in a hotel room waiting for your BF if you have 5 days of laundry to do.
Or your first tour around the city is arrive at the hotel, throw the suitcase in a hurry and rush to the closest supermarket to see the detergent aisle.
Or your first tour around the city is arrive at the hotel, throw the suitcase in a hurry and rush to the closest supermarket to see the detergent aisle.
OK, Move Over, Jim Foxworthy, Move Over!!!!
The name FRANKLIN gives you a WARM, FUZZY FEELING!
Franklin Appliances, Franklin The Turtle, Franklin on Peanuts/Charley Brown, Franklin Graham (son of Rev. Billy Graham--and continuing Billy's legacy, picking upon his mission; as he's going on '99-Y-O', this year!), and Franklin Locks...!
Your idea of being a Thrill Seeker: Yes, I am washing MY CLOTHES on Heavy Duty! (Fast Agitation/Fast Spin), that normally get washed on Regular (Slow Agaitation/Fast Spin)--which is a pair of jeans, a couple shirts, one of my wife's shirts, and a couple pairs o' mah stank drahwers...!
-- Dave
The name FRANKLIN gives you a WARM, FUZZY FEELING!
Franklin Appliances, Franklin The Turtle, Franklin on Peanuts/Charley Brown, Franklin Graham (son of Rev. Billy Graham--and continuing Billy's legacy, picking upon his mission; as he's going on '99-Y-O', this year!), and Franklin Locks...!
Your idea of being a Thrill Seeker: Yes, I am washing MY CLOTHES on Heavy Duty! (Fast Agitation/Fast Spin), that normally get washed on Regular (Slow Agaitation/Fast Spin)--which is a pair of jeans, a couple shirts, one of my wife's shirts, and a couple pairs o' mah stank drahwers...!
-- Dave
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