You know you live a boring life when you get this excited...

Over a washing machine and dryer!

Hubby surprised me yesterday with a huge purchase....

A new washing machine and dryer.

He said that he heard me say that he never surprises me, so he thought he would...

And BOY was I ever surprised!

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We've wanted a new set for the past couple of years, especially when our old washing machine decided not to spin anymore.

Every single time we would wash clothes, we had to go and manually start the drum spinning.

Because it wasn't working well, we often had to spin each load at least 4 or 5 times.....

And then the clothes would still take at least two dryer cycles to dry.

Then, in the past few weeks, the dryer has been overheating about 5 minutes into the cycle, causing it to stop.

Doing laundry has been extremely frustrating, to say the least.

We wanted a front loading washer and dryer for a few reasons....

It is energy efficient.

It uses much less water.

AND, it's much easier to get the clothes in and out....

Which is good because I don't like to bend...lol

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I was even more surprised when they delivered AND installed them early this morning!

 (They're  here!)

It took a while to get them all hooked up (there is a USB cable that connects the two, so the dryer "knows" how wet the clothes are, therefore lets us know how long the drying time will be).

(Well hello, beautiful!)

(Hubby making sure there are no leaks)

So far, we have washed AND dried two loads of clothes and are washing a third load...

The first load washed and dried in 1 hr and 39 minutes.

 

(And I am a little embarrassed to say we sat in the laundry room and watched it wash the first load of clothes...lol)

The second load washed and dried in 1 hr and 30 minutes!

The washing time is consistently around an hour, and the drying time is between 30 and 40 minutes.

Really? 30 to 40 minutes to DRY towels?  jeans?

I've never had a dryer that finished BEFORE the washing machine!

I have a feeling we are going to save enough money on our monthly power bill to pay for the washer and dryer!

Does anyone else get this excited about laundry?