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I bought a new washing machine from Home Depot last week.

Side note: why is a dishwasher a dishwasher but a clotheswasher is just a washer? Aren’t they both washing machines? Likewise, a car wash is also a washing machine. It even goes one step farther, as it is a machine for washing machines. Anyway, I just wanted to remind people that a dishwasher is a washing machine too.

Now back to our regular content…

What I find half amusing-half annoying is that since then, Home Depot has sent me a few emails touting their washers and dryers and asking me to shop for those items.

I realize I fit the profile of someone who bought a washer but not a dryer therefore I should be in the market for a dryer, but that’s not what their email said. It was just “Hey, we have deals on washers and dryers!”

For what it’s worth, I’m not in the market for a dryer. (Specifically, a clothes dryer. I should have checked that they weren’t actually trying to sell me a hair dryer, or a paint dryer).

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In case you were wondering, we had bought a GE washer about 2.5 years ago. And the GE warranty is only 1 year. It failed (motor wouldn’t run, so no spinning or agitating, just filling and draining – plus the basket was leaking from the middle, probably the water leaking onto the motor assembly is what caused the motor to fail). I estimated the replacement parts would have been close to $300. Add in the cost for a service call plus labor for someone to fix it, and that’s the price of a new clotheswasher.

So that’s why we bought a new washer.

And it’s a Maytag. They don’t have a 1-year warranty. They have a 10-year warranty on the motor and the basket – the two components that failed in the old machine.

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