My husband and I bought the cheapest fridge/freezer and washing machine we could find when we moved into our last place 6 1/2 years ago. They're still working, but the fridge/freezer is on its last legs, and the load capacity of the washing machine is very small. We got a chest freezer off of freecycle a couple of years ago, which works but is pretty grotty - the seal is going, it's constantly frozen up etc.
Baby is due in July, and I think we ought to replace the washing machine because we're planning to use cloth nappies, so a bigger load capacity would be really useful. We could also do with a tumble dryer, and have found myself putting a new fridge/freezer and chest freezer in my online basket, because I'm convinced they're going to completely pack up soon.
I can't bring myself to press buy! Is it completely ridiculous to buy all this stuff now (when we've still bought virtually no baby stuff)? It's just over £1,000 for all four appliances, which seems like pretty good value (and we can afford) but it just seems stupidly over the top when the things we have still work!