|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#171
|
|||
|
|||
Weights of my bikes
On 5/24/2021 8:30 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
On Sat, 22 May 2021 02:28:05 -0700 (PDT), Lou Holtman wrote: In tourist locations like hostel, B&B holiday apartments etc. they often offer the use of a washing machine and a dryer. In hotels they have a washing service. In a family household however a washing machine and a dryer is considered a necessity of life. I can't imagine a family household with a couple of kids using a laundromat. If a washing machine breaks there is a panic and it has to be repaired or replaced within a couple of days otherwise the whole system breaks down. We have dry cleaners though but laundromats nah. If you have a couple of kids, that's when you need a laundromat. Fill up a half dozen or so machines, go back to the first one and put it into the dryer, when all are in dryers, start folding the first load, all done and dusted in two or three hours. Wow, we have a couple of kids, as do most people around here, and never used a laundromat. You don't let the laundry pile up all week. As opposed to the entire day I intend to spend on washing clothes for two people for one week strikethe day after tomorrow/striketoday. And strikeI'll/strike have strikea lot of the/strike folding to do strikeon the day aftertomorrow. I didn't buy my own machine until the water heater at the laundromat broke down and the owner declined to have it repaired. When you put your dish towels into a washer last used by heaven knows who to wash heaven knows what, cold water just doesn't cut it. I read something that said that the reason laundromats never were in China is because no one would want to wash their clothes in a machine used by "heaven knows who." We should have brought that thirty-year-old Maytag with us when we moved. My current smart-alec washing machine refuses to allow me to use hot water. For a while I tried to fool it by shutting off the cold water, but the timing is tricky because it checks that cold water is available before starting to fill, and the valves are really hard to get at. The old wringer washer provided in the trailer park where we spent winters after Dad retired is starting to look pretty good. They are still being made, but the price is higher than a kite's back, and I have my suspicions about the quality. |
Ads |
#173
|
|||
|
|||
Weights of my bikes
On Tue, 25 May 2021 10:45:52 +0700, John B. scribed:
The old wringer washer provided in the trailer park where we spent winters after Dad retired is starting to look pretty good. My mother had a wringer washing machine and to the best of my knowledge she used it until she died. Which would have been something like 60 years - assuming that she got it about the time us kids were born. I inherited my grandmothers wringer. No idea how long they had it. Eventually we replaced it with a twin tub as it was murder on buttons. Overhere, if it quickly economical to afford your own washing machine compared to the quickly growingamount spent at a laundromat. I wonder whether a modern washing machine will last 60 years? You should wonder about any modern manufacture. They design a new model, produce a batch and flogg them off and then repeat the cycle. By the time you determine which are the good models, you are chasing used machines. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Anyone do weights? | Kaiser Sose | UK | 8 | January 11th 07 11:19 AM |
Uni Weights... | irvinegr | Unicycling | 13 | January 20th 06 12:15 PM |
hub weights | nickjb | Unicycling | 5 | July 20th 04 11:10 PM |
Difference in weights. | Simon Mason | UK | 37 | June 7th 04 09:10 AM |
Hub and Cranks weights... | pluto | Unicycling | 11 | April 15th 04 08:05 PM |