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Post by bonbonlarue on Oct 15, 2010 17:12:48 GMT
My fridge freezer threw a wobbly last week...freezer fine but the fridge started overtaking and freezing the tomatoes..[like bullets they were...bullets] so after much Googling an' E bayin'..[unsuccessfully] the mancub said it was about time we had a new appliance instead of secondhand every couple of years... So, last night I ordered a state of the art, floor sweeping, brand chuffin' new fridge freezer...and then, this morning...I thought back and realised that I'd only ever had ONE brand new fridge and/or freezer before and that was before mummyslittlesoldier was born...[he's 27 now]... How the other half live eh?  |
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Post by Weyland on Oct 15, 2010 17:30:03 GMT
I thought back and realised that I'd only ever had ONE brand new fridge and/or freezer before and that was before mummyslittlesoldier was born...[he's 27 now]... I must be older and wiser than you, BonBon. Both my "kids" are mid-30s. I've had enough fridge-freezers by now to realise that it's a mug's game. The fridge will always give up before the freezer. So now I have a Beko freezer and a Bosch larder fridge (both special offers at Comet years ago). Much handier as well, if you have the space. (The freezer is in the utility room.) |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 16, 2010 10:10:23 GMT
It was always washing machines in our house, growing up. There was the single tub Hoover with the mangle on top that worked even after we stopped using it - but used to tie the clothes in knots rather than washing them, the AEG twin tub - a child of the sixties with the glorious corner curves to match that went up in smoke. a later Hoover Twin tub - which was quite modern by our standards that also went bang and a Hoover automatic that spent most of it's washing time trying to escape. Best Beloved's life was much easier - her Mum won a Hotpoint Automatic in a Persil competition in 1975 - The machine kept valiantly going up until 2000 When the parts just weren't available any more.
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Post by riotgrrl on Oct 16, 2010 11:04:11 GMT
OMG Twin tubs.
Trying to lift soaking wet jumpers out of the wash bit and put them in the spin dry bit.
I hated twin tubs.
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Post by aubrey on Oct 16, 2010 12:05:12 GMT
We got a new washing machine last week. And we're going to have to get a new computer soon.
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Post by everso on Oct 16, 2010 23:38:25 GMT
OMG Twin tubs. Trying to lift soaking wet jumpers out of the wash bit and put them in the spin dry bit. I hated twin tubs. When we got married, Mr. E's mum gave us her old twin tub washing machine. I used it once and thought "Feck that". I used to send Mr. E. down the launderette once a week while I cooked his tea. When we'd been married a year I used my Christmas bonus to buy an automatic washing machine in a sale at Keddies in Romford. It cost £69 and lasted 7 years. To this day, I still get that lovely feeling of loading a washing machine up, switching in on and walking away. Fantastic! |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 17, 2010 1:18:39 GMT
I'm a pervert then - I like Twin Tubs. I had a flat with a kitchen so badly designed you could never have got an automatic to fit - So I recommissioned my Mum's Hoovermatic Twin Tub. Boy oh boy could that get whites white. It was better than the brand new Hotpoint my brother and I had bought just a few years before (he got custody of that though). I loved doing the business with the transferring over and spinning and rinsing etc. Twin Tubs are so easy to fix too! I had to put a new drain pipe on this one and fitted a new pump - it was a doddle. Loved that machine!  |
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Post by everso on Oct 17, 2010 10:38:40 GMT
Pretty much museum pieces now.
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Post by Patrick on Oct 17, 2010 12:13:12 GMT
Oddly enough there are a couple of companies who have 'reinvented' the Twin Tub - from little ones that you can take with you if you have a caravan or motorhome through to full size ones for the home - Apparently people who have trouble bending down to load front loaders like them.
A few years ago I recall bumping into the website of a company that refurbished Hoovermatics - encasing them in polished Stainless steel!
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Post by everso on Oct 17, 2010 14:20:10 GMT
Up until the 1980s, my mum didn't have a washing machine of any kind, but instead did a weekly boil and hand-washing. I remember being put on mangle duty as a kid - we had a mangle that clipped on to the butler sink in our kitchen. It was always wise to keep out of my mum's way if the copper accidentally boiled over and she had to mop up the kitchen floor. For some reason it always made her angry.  When she died, I found her copper stick - she'd never got rid of it - and have kept it (for younger board members, a copper stick was used to poke the clothes when they were in the copper to move them around and clean them, and eventually lift them out). Of all the things that my mum left, her copper stick and rolling pin (my brother took that) seem such a part of her. |
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Post by Weyland on Oct 17, 2010 14:38:52 GMT
Of all the things that my mum left, her copper stick and rolling pin (my brother took that) seem such a part of her. I got the rolling-pin. Still use it. Don't know what happened to the wooden tongs she had for the boiler, but I do know she kept them way into the 1970s at least. I well remember the first washer we had -- a huge cream Hotpoint with a built-in mangle. In no way automatic, and it made noises like a train crash, but I suppose it was much better than what went before. |
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