So sad, I'm lusting after a washing machine.

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I'm on holiday and we have Maytag. Gosh, it's wonderful; top-loader, the drum is over twice the size and it does a proper wash in 38 minutes.
It even has has a matching sibling dryer that's equally impressive.
Most people bring a straw donkey home from holiday

That happened to me on holiday too. We were camping and they had huge machines in the laundry block - front loaders but with massive capacity, and the dryers actually dried things, unlike my washer-dryer combo.

We've moving house soon and I've to get new machines, and I'm refusing to get anything with less than 9kg capacity.

Same happened with me... we used a washer and dryer in Nashville which were Samsung. Our new washing machine arrived yesterday as our old one was about to die (guess what we got!!)