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If you fol­low me on Twit­ter, then you’ll know that for the last few weeks I’ve been deal­ing with some irri­tat­ing appli­ance issues.

My wash­ing machine had been with me for more than 15 years and it was finally giv­ing up the ghost.  Wash­ing for messy boys ever day was  a lit­tle much for her, so we finally went out and bought an LG fancy-smancy front loader.  I have been want­ing a front loader for EVER awhile and was giddy that I was get­ting one with all the bells and whis­tles (steamer and aller­genic cycles!). Unfortunately, 2 loads into it and it broke.  Their steamer out­let is right in the drum open­ing and it got loose I guess and was leak­ing every­where…and I do mean every­where. 

As irri­tated as I was I couldn’t help but be impressed how quick Best Buy traded it out for another one.  I thought, “Surely this is a fluke and we won’t have any more problems.” 

Silly me.

This time, after 3 days of own­er­ship, it decided to turn off and not come back on.  That’s it!  I was hacked!  I was so frus­trated because the LG brands over­seas (where they orginated) were one of the bests. Again, Best Buy went WAY out of their way to help us out, even when they thought our busi­ness was going to move to Sears (You’re the best, Calvin!!!). 

I must have been in a prog­es­terone or was it an estrone state of mind, because I decide to try it again.  This time I was going with­out all the extras and stick­ing with their basic front-load washer. 

So far, so good and I actu­ally like it’s con­trols bet­ter.  What’s crack­ing me up is it’s settings:

Baby Wear — for lightly soiled baby wear (Really? I’ve never heard of a baby that lightly soils it’s clothes.  If there’s not spit up all down the front, there’s blow-outs in the back but on most days it’s both!)

San­i­tary — for heav­ily soiled under­wear, dia­pers, etc. (Holy crap­pers, I’ll be able to get J’s nico­tine stains out!)

Del­i­cates — for sheer or lacy gar­ments, etc (Trust me LG, if I’m buy­ing this washer for the San­i­tary and Baby Wear set­tings, I’ll have no need for this setting!)