Minneapolis/St. Paul Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Washing Machine Recs?
GAH. I'm fairly certain that our 20 year old washing machine died on me tonight. I washed a load of blankets, went down to change it and it completely went through the spin cycle without spinning. I just washed these blankets last week and it was fine. I had to pull them out and haul them upstairs and dump them into the bathtub. Darn it. I thought it was acting funny the other night too.
SO... I guess I'm looking for a new washing machine. Any good recommendations? Do you like yours? Do you hate yours?
Oops, I got into Dad's hair goop. At least I gotta mohawk!
Re: Washing Machine Recs?
Front page of Yahoo has an article on washing machines right now:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/581/best-washing-machines/
My machine also broke last month, similar issue. We got it repaired for about $100. Just a thought, you might see if a repair place would give you a free quote on fixing it, and could also perhaps tell you how much "life" would be left in the machine after fixing it. It may cost a lot less to repair the existing machine.
That said, if you do get a new one, the Service Plus guys who fixed our machine (who do repair for a living) told me that they would only buy Whirlpool or Maytag (those brands hold up the best), and to definitely get a top-loader and not a front loader. Front loaders are cool because the use less water than a top-loader, but they said they tend to break at least once a year, so you'll have high maintenance costs.
I'd also recommend getting home service plus on your appliances. You pay about $6 month per appliance, and they fix them for free.