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MADem

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20. I have an acquaintance who has an appliance store.

Reply to redstatebluegirl (Reply #10)

Sat Nov 24, 2012, 11:37 AM

Nov 2012

He admits that those front loaders (big money makers) are shit and the amount of water saved for an average family won't make up for the repair costs. And what he told me about gas dryers? They're all the same--the high end ones are mostly "looks."

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