It's A Wild And Wacky, Smart And Red, Washing Machine Story!

         Are you wondering why I'm starting a post about a washing machine with a picture of an out-of-control, wild-looking plant?! Well, I'll tell you. It's because THIS is how I'm feeling about the new washing machine we just bought!! Let me explain......
       Growth is wonderful! And just like hubby's sunflower plants outside in the backyard are growing beautifully...

        ...the growth inside the house is going beautifully too. We've gone from washing our clothes in this top-loading, 'agitating' agitator model....

        ...to washing our clothes in this red front-loading, computerized model!.....

      ...*pretend you hear a chorus of 70,000 people humming and a big light just went on over it* ^_^...It's called 'LG-Life's Good'. No......seriously!! That's what the washing machine model is called!! ^_^
       Hubby agrees with the name of it too! If I didn't have almost 29 years of hard earned years in with him already, I think he might be ready to get a new model...from me...to this washing machine...and 'put a ring on it'!! LOL
     A few days ago I told you about our wait for this washing machine. As it turned out it was an even longer wait than we imagined...It was suppose to be delivered on Thursday, at dinnertime. We waited........and waited.......and waited. It never came!! What 'did' come, the next day, was an automated phone call telling us that our 'delivery had been delayed'....NO KIDDING!!!! UGH!
     After some wrangling and some complete annoyance with the whole 'ask-too-many-questions, don't-give-you-any answers' online telephone arrangement system.....UGH!...we finally got another delivery date.........Sunday morning! O_0 Is this the 'Wacky World of Wuglyees Washing Machines'?! In the past when we've tried to get a weekend delivery of...ANYTHING....we'd get 'poo pooed' like we were crazy 'don't-know-nothing' back-woods country people!!
     Whatever!!.....So, it came.....late!....but it came. Then hubby went into 'giddy, smiling, manual reading, mode'...For two days I've heard....."Ooooo! It talks to you! Not a literal talk like 'THE DOOR IS AJAR', but it makes noises!!...You remember when Red Skelton would jump and they'd play that music?....." {Okay....he's going waaaaay back for this story!! ^_^}
    "....It kinda sings to you when you turn it on, and when you choose the cycles. Then if you leave the door open or something it 'bings' and a digital code comes up!"....So it's digital?! Interesting. ^_^
     He also says that when the washing cycle is finished it sings a little 'diddy' and a sign comes up that says: "End"...I know it plays the music because I heard music playing...coming out of the bathroom...and I was kinda startled. LOL
     He's also ecstatic because it's energy efficient. It hardly uses any water. In fact, when you first start the machine the digital technology in it weighs the clothes and gives you an estimated time of how long it's going to take to wash! Then it squirts water in, a little at a time, until it fills the tub to how much water was needed. Then it washes a little while one way. Stops. And washes the load, flipping the clothes the other way!!
      But now, for the wacky part!!.....We found out....after we got it home...bad consumer planning on our part!...that it doesn't use regular detergent!!!!!!

        It's an 'HE' washer, which means it's 'High Efficiency' and only uses products marked 'HE'!!

       My translation of this is that it doesn't use sudsy detergents! NO SUDS!!!...O_0 That already has me puzzled!....But hey! It has a allergen cycle too, where you can wash your bedding and have it come out dust mite free! So, whatever!! ^_^
       My real problem with the 'HE' stuff is this...

        I don't like using stuff I've never used before!!!! Downy fabric Softener......okay. I've used this all my life!...But, for detergents, I went from things I became allergic to over the years {from 'Cheer' and  'All' to 'X-tra'} to things my skin and body would tolerate. Now I have to change again!!!!.....

           .....to this 'HE' Tide...I've never used Tide! Have any of you used it?!....Did it cost this much?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

       UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have an efficiency washing machine that requires an inefficiently priced detergent!!!!!!......Yep! I think 'HE' has another meaning! I think the makers of the washing machine are somewhere laughing and saying: 'Ha-Ha...Easy'! LOL ......*shaking my head*
        Oh Well, for now all we can do is listen to the music and wait for the light bill next month. Hopefully somewhere down the line this thing will pay for itself...at least in scraps! LOL
      I'm off to have some breakfast, get some photos set for my finished hats, and get ready to start another black and white shawl...Tomorrow I hope to have my Jane Austen novel in hand too. I'm determined to read one! I'm gonna see today if the library has 'Pride and Prejudice'. I'll keep you informed.....Oops! Music is playing!.....Later! ^_^ {The poem below was written for hubby a while ago...but it fits today! LOL}


Quick Ditty About "Change"

No! I don't do "change" well.
I like things just the way they are.
That's why I wear the same deodorant
and drive an old  beat-up car!

My clothes are classic, retro style;
I still shave. Will not use NAIR.
Until my hair falls out...
then I'll be off to buy some hair!