Dammitall

I hate our dishwasher and our washing machine. The dishwasher, which came with the house, is always clogging up with water and there are portions of the bottom rack that are rusting; we're very much due for a new one.

Thanks to space constraints in our house, we were stuck with purchasing a stackable washer and dryer (two separate front-load units, not the single unit with a dryer on top of a top-loading washer). We didn't know the washing machine in the set being offered in our price range at Sears had no filter in front of the drain pump. We're typically about 85% vigilant with emptying our pockets before the clothes go in the washer. As luck would have it, we've had to replace the drain pump twice after coins got left behind in our pockets a handful of times.

Yes, we're more careful now, but both of us had gone our whole lives laundering clothes with stuff left in pockets before and never had this problem until now.

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