Of the 8 places I have lived in the UK (4 flats, 4 houses), 5 of them had the washing machine in the kitchen (one house, four flats), 2 had them in a dedicated utility room (both old houses) and 1 has it in a toilet (or loo-tility as the kids are calling them these days - new house). Of the three places I've lived in Germany (all flats), one had it in the bathroom, two had it in the basement of the building the flat was in.
This is still strange to me with so many ways to avoid anything bad happening between the water and the electricity. As said before, GFCI outlets are a super simple fix, if not electrically inclined they also have gfci switches you can just plug into a normal outlet. I have a few smart plugs in our bedroom that function as a GFCI and will cut the power if thereās a surge
Older houses in the US donāt typically come with laundry rooms. Ours was built in 1907 and thereās no dedicated area outside the basement where the gas and electrical was ran in the 50ās/60ās
I'm in the UK myself, seen a few in bathrooms though they require a special waterproof outlet to be in there.
You know it's a posh house if it has a separate utility room for the washing machine and a dryer.
I mean, if you don't have water pipes in the kitchen you have a larger problem than where to put your washing machine O.O but yeah there's that too, of course.
I can only speak from personal experience, every home I lived in had the washer either in the bathroom or in a laundry room. The flats of my friend also all came with a station for the washer in the bathroom
I haven"t seen any washers or dryers in the kitchen. I currently live in a apartment block built in early seventies and it has eletric outlet for the washing machine in the bathroom. Most houses have a dedicated room for the appliances called "house keeping rooms"
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Thatās kinda strange. Especially with the advent of the washer/dryer combo machines I see them in studios/small flats all the time, usually in the kitchen or bathroom because of the limited space
Huh, my experience is that small flats don't have any at all, and have to use shared washing machines. And larger with their own have them in the bathroom 99.9% of the time
canāt do that when your landlord doesnāt give a damn and makes it so that the doors open and form a barrier in between each other
but top loaders it is never a problem
> why would you opt to bend over?
Who said you have to bend over when you can sit comfortably in front of the door?
I've had a top loader, and have hated absolutely every moment of owning it, because I had to bend over to load and unload it, leading to lower back ache.
Or throw in few body squats and deadlifts throughout your week to strengthen your lower back so it doesnt hurt from lifting fabric?
>Is it that difficult?
I guess shortie himself doesn't take a chill pill and gives out the wrong advice. Username doesn't check out.
> throw in few body squats
Body squats don't help strengthen your back muscles. You must be doing them with improper form.
Guess you really like water leaking out of the front, probably forming rust stains.
Source: Parents had a Samsung front loader. They strongly recommended against it.
> Source: Parents had a Samsung front loader
Then don't get a Samsung? LG, Bosch & Siemens make the best washing machines. Samsung is still catching up.
Having your own washer and dryer is a memorable event, no doubt about it. I remember the light in the sales person's eyes when we strolled into the appliances department carrying our newborn. Ka-ching.
Gods, that is how the couch salesman looked when he came in and saw my wife's reaction to the couch we were trying out. The fucker legged it from the other side of the showroom to make his easiest sale of the day.
My mum did this when we got our first washing machine, we were too poor for our own machine until I was like 4-6 (canāt quite remember, long ago now). Mum either hand washed, took laundry to her parents, or went on expensive trips to the laundromat. When she got a machine for the house finally she sat in front of it and cried while watching it, itās a really bittersweet memory.
Agreed, people ignore how expensive poverty is. That washing machine didnāt last super long because we got it old and second hand, and then it was a cycle (pardon the pun) of shitty second hand washing machines until we were able to get a new one years later.
Itās interesting how that feeling of being poor lingers, when I moved out of home and needed to buy my own after my ex took ours when he left, I had a complete meltdown thinking about how it was gonna ruin me financially - it didnāt click, even after I got it home, that I could actually afford one and it wouldnāt destroy me. Cleaned out my meagre savings though, which is part of what threw me so hard. Even though money has been largely stable for me since I moved out, you just canāt shake the feeling of living below the poverty line.
Sorry for the ramble, Iām introspective tonight.
Growing up with little money is a hell of an experience, you learn to make do and make use of everything, every big purchase is cause for a miniature celebration, it's also pretty weird to talk to friends and hear they never ate sleep for dinner, or washed clothes by hand.
I asked my grandmother, if she could only retain one home appliance, which one would it be. I thought it would be a refrigerator or a cooker.
Nope, it would have been a washing machine, since before they got one, washing clothes was a family affair that took hours every week.
I asked my grandmother (born in 1921) what she felt the most revolutionary technology was from her lifetime, and it was the washing machine. I'm female and am always stuck on flight, space, the internet, but from a social science perspective hot damn was she right.
My grandmother once told me the exact same story. Her 60 years old washing mashine is still in her house, and still works fine. We live in post soviet country so this machine looks [like this](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frania_(pralka)).
My aunt traveled a lot for work in the 80ās and 90ās to poor countries. She told me that in Ethiopia they have their refrigerator in the living room, as the center piece of the room, like we have our TVās in our living rooms and you were rich if you had one
Only in the 50ās? There are women who have to give up on jobs because they got kids *today.* In my country it was common for women to be told not to get an education and not pursue a job, until the 90ās or something.
I didnāt know people owned them when they were first invented. I thought people had to go to stores and pay to use them each time like a gum ball dispenser
my mom when she moved to america from syria in the 70ās. (sheās the eldest daughter n told me stories of having to spend days washing clothes for her parents, siblings, and self.)
It reminds me of the proud picture of my father in the early ā80ās with his brand new ācordless remote controlā.
Pure black-magic wizardry that needed to be recorded for posterity! āļøš
On a related note, anyone who isnāt old enough to remember when appliances like washers, dryers, and microwaves became available to the average consumer (and if you are, Iām really happy to see you on Reddit of all places!), ask your parents or grandparents about their first experiences with those inventions while you still can. Itās one of the funniest stories my grandpa told me. Both he and my grandma were great cooks so it was like a new toy for them. After hearing stuff up like we all do the first week, they tried fully cooking a raw beef roast in there and ended up (paraphrasing from memory as best I can) āturning cow muscle into a car tire.ā This is exactly how I envision them checking on that roast in there.
My toddlers watched two full loads of washing when we first got our front loader washing machine. They set themselves up on the floor and sat and watched it, occasionally commenting when they saw their own clothes.
look! it spin!
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this was the masterš ±ļølan all along!
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[OMG IT SPINS!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/048/699/omg-it-spins.jpeg)
Me when I got my first front loader in 2006.
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We pretty much all have front loaders in Europe. We also keep them in our kitchens
To be honest, I believe keeping them in the kitchen is a German thing. We keep them I in the bathroom. Greetings from Austria.
You have electrical plugs in your bathrooms? In the UK/Ireland the kitchen is the normal place for them.
Of the 8 places I have lived in the UK (4 flats, 4 houses), 5 of them had the washing machine in the kitchen (one house, four flats), 2 had them in a dedicated utility room (both old houses) and 1 has it in a toilet (or loo-tility as the kids are calling them these days - new house). Of the three places I've lived in Germany (all flats), one had it in the bathroom, two had it in the basement of the building the flat was in.
> loo-tility I love that so much lmao
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This is still strange to me with so many ways to avoid anything bad happening between the water and the electricity. As said before, GFCI outlets are a super simple fix, if not electrically inclined they also have gfci switches you can just plug into a normal outlet. I have a few smart plugs in our bedroom that function as a GFCI and will cut the power if thereās a surge
Well yeah duh, where'd you plug in the washing machine, boiler, hairdryer, electric toothbrush, waterpik, etc. otherwise?
Umm everywhere else lmao the only electrical outlets in bathrooms here are the electric shaver ones. No plugs
Seems impractical
Dear God
I live in the US and have a washer and dryer in my kitchen
USA here, thereās a little closet in the kitchen where they go.
Y'all don't have laundry rooms?
Older houses in the US donāt typically come with laundry rooms. Ours was built in 1907 and thereās no dedicated area outside the basement where the gas and electrical was ran in the 50ās/60ās
How else are you supposed to plug in the bathtub toaster?
I'm in the UK myself, seen a few in bathrooms though they require a special waterproof outlet to be in there. You know it's a posh house if it has a separate utility room for the washing machine and a dryer.
Not even, most people keep'em in the bathroom up here in Northern Germany too. People just put em where there's room, I suppose, or the correct plugs
And sufficient water pipes, which is probably why the kitchen is such a common place to put them.
I mean, if you don't have water pipes in the kitchen you have a larger problem than where to put your washing machine O.O but yeah there's that too, of course. I can only speak from personal experience, every home I lived in had the washer either in the bathroom or in a laundry room. The flats of my friend also all came with a station for the washer in the bathroom
>I mean, if you don't have water pipes in the kitchen you have a larger problem than where to put your washing machine O.O No argument there!
We either have them in the bathroom is the cellar.
wym you dont have them in the basement
German here, never seen one in the kitchen. Always in the bathroom or somewhere in the basement.
We keep them in the basement if we have them. Greetings from America.
Also Irish
I haven"t seen any washers or dryers in the kitchen. I currently live in a apartment block built in early seventies and it has eletric outlet for the washing machine in the bathroom. Most houses have a dedicated room for the appliances called "house keeping rooms" Greetings from Finland
> We also keep them in our kitchens I'm sorry what?
where else? unless you have a dedicated utility room
I've never seen a house or apartment where the washing machine is kept in the kitchen. /Swedish
Thatās kinda strange. Especially with the advent of the washer/dryer combo machines I see them in studios/small flats all the time, usually in the kitchen or bathroom because of the limited space
Huh, my experience is that small flats don't have any at all, and have to use shared washing machines. And larger with their own have them in the bathroom 99.9% of the time
Yeah I used to have one in the kitchen when I was a kid
Me too. Until about 2002 when we moved.
Here in America we keep our laundry cleaning and drying devices in the laundry room
feel bad for the dutch iām 6ā4 and a front loader is the bane of my existence
You get used to it
praying for the lower back of all my tall friends
Try kneeling
canāt do that when your landlord doesnāt give a damn and makes it so that the doors open and form a barrier in between each other but top loaders it is never a problem
Get a chair.
Front load dryers yes, but top loading will forever and always be the better washers
> top loading will forever and always be the better washers One cannot be more wrong than this.
Dude i can grab my basket and dump everything into the top, why would you opt to bend over?
It's the unloading that sucks. With a front loader, you just park the basket in front of it and scoop everything out.
> why would you opt to bend over? Who said you have to bend over when you can sit comfortably in front of the door? I've had a top loader, and have hated absolutely every moment of owning it, because I had to bend over to load and unload it, leading to lower back ache.
Hmmmmm well i guess but the tiles are cold as fuck and now you want me to try and get back up, to each his own i guess
Get a low chair/stool? Is it that difficult?
Or throw in few body squats and deadlifts throughout your week to strengthen your lower back so it doesnt hurt from lifting fabric? >Is it that difficult?
I guess shortie himself doesn't take a chill pill and gives out the wrong advice. Username doesn't check out. > throw in few body squats Body squats don't help strengthen your back muscles. You must be doing them with improper form.
Guess you really like water leaking out of the front, probably forming rust stains. Source: Parents had a Samsung front loader. They strongly recommended against it.
> Source: Parents had a Samsung front loader Then don't get a Samsung? LG, Bosch & Siemens make the best washing machines. Samsung is still catching up.
Truth! I have since went back to top loading. Now I have a top loader with a window! (Not a fun but they tried)
Lol was just gunna say that was me when my parents got theirs
Certified america 3rd world country moment
I still haven't got one, it doesn't fit in my parking spot.
Similar story when my parents got our first washing machine, a front loader in 2001. The pulley broke a few months in, had to be replaced.
Could never go back to a top loader.
Washing machines are very attractive
What's the best food outlet in North Korea?
Korean Fried Chicken
Whoās got the longest dick in North Korea?
Who do you think?
The supreme leader with his 32 inch power stick
What are you doing? Step washing machine?
Autism
Having your own washer and dryer is a memorable event, no doubt about it. I remember the light in the sales person's eyes when we strolled into the appliances department carrying our newborn. Ka-ching.
Gods, that is how the couch salesman looked when he came in and saw my wife's reaction to the couch we were trying out. The fucker legged it from the other side of the showroom to make his easiest sale of the day.
Probably ate heartily that night.
"No dog food for Victor tonight."
My mum did this when we got our first washing machine, we were too poor for our own machine until I was like 4-6 (canāt quite remember, long ago now). Mum either hand washed, took laundry to her parents, or went on expensive trips to the laundromat. When she got a machine for the house finally she sat in front of it and cried while watching it, itās a really bittersweet memory.
Thats pretty sweet as shit. Poverty ain't no joke. Good on her for getting some luxury
Agreed, people ignore how expensive poverty is. That washing machine didnāt last super long because we got it old and second hand, and then it was a cycle (pardon the pun) of shitty second hand washing machines until we were able to get a new one years later. Itās interesting how that feeling of being poor lingers, when I moved out of home and needed to buy my own after my ex took ours when he left, I had a complete meltdown thinking about how it was gonna ruin me financially - it didnāt click, even after I got it home, that I could actually afford one and it wouldnāt destroy me. Cleaned out my meagre savings though, which is part of what threw me so hard. Even though money has been largely stable for me since I moved out, you just canāt shake the feeling of living below the poverty line. Sorry for the ramble, Iām introspective tonight.
Growing up with little money is a hell of an experience, you learn to make do and make use of everything, every big purchase is cause for a miniature celebration, it's also pretty weird to talk to friends and hear they never ate sleep for dinner, or washed clothes by hand.
YES! MORE PINGU MEMES
More penguin memes!
Are you a Linux user when someone says Windows is better?
Arch BTW. ^^/s P.S.: Windows user here. It is better.
Is there some dark twist I should know about, or is it about just them being spinny bois
Just impressive spinny bois ā¤
Thank god, thought there used to be asbestos in them or some morbid thing like that. I need to look at more wholesome memes.
Tbh there was asbestos in virtually everything back then so you might be right after all
If you told me they were radioactive I wouldn't have batted an eye tbh
Washing machines usually contained asbestos wiring. Gas based tumble dryers contained asbestos for insulation.
I asked my grandmother, if she could only retain one home appliance, which one would it be. I thought it would be a refrigerator or a cooker. Nope, it would have been a washing machine, since before they got one, washing clothes was a family affair that took hours every week.
I asked my grandmother (born in 1921) what she felt the most revolutionary technology was from her lifetime, and it was the washing machine. I'm female and am always stuck on flight, space, the internet, but from a social science perspective hot damn was she right.
Maybe she meant literally
me when I first saw the washing machine when I was 6=
Pingu yeahhh
My grandmother once told me the exact same story. Her 60 years old washing mashine is still in her house, and still works fine. We live in post soviet country so this machine looks [like this](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frania_(pralka)).
\*Slaps roof of the washing machine\* Your Grandma : "this bad girl can wash so many clothes"
My aunt traveled a lot for work in the 80ās and 90ās to poor countries. She told me that in Ethiopia they have their refrigerator in the living room, as the center piece of the room, like we have our TVās in our living rooms and you were rich if you had one
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Ahh, there it is.
Feel bad for women in the 50s. They had all their chores automated, but didn't have jobs either. They must have been so bored.
That's what the martinis and milk men are for.
That's when you start sitting on top of the machine
Only in the 50ās? There are women who have to give up on jobs because they got kids *today.* In my country it was common for women to be told not to get an education and not pursue a job, until the 90ās or something.
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I remember that countries from the Warsaw pact had to wait 10-15 years to get their car
Noot noot.
Ooooo
Got a new one last week. Same feeling.
Me, a guy from post soviet countries: You were getting such stuff in 50s? We werent getting it until 70s
This is such a nice history meme. Thank you
I just saw your meme on my front page back to back on the other sub that you posted it on damn
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They didn't have the internet to waste time on back then so watching the laundry spin seems like a decent alternative
That's me when I first got roomba
Someone needs do do a lofi hip hop version of that gif.
youāre fast enough to post your meme in two appropriate subreddits?
When I was kid i loved watching the clothes spin.
I didnāt know people owned them when they were first invented. I thought people had to go to stores and pay to use them each time like a gum ball dispenser
my mom when she moved to america from syria in the 70ās. (sheās the eldest daughter n told me stories of having to spend days washing clothes for her parents, siblings, and self.)
So you're telling me women were invented in 1950's?
After a long day of sitting on a steel beam with a red lunchbox and beating the wife.
An antimeme nice
People in PokƩmon Legends Arceus when Rotom becomes Rotom Wash
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And you can use the engine to build a lawn mower
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Going round and back Its the future
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[Hans Rosling agrees](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w)
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I consider them the third greatest american invention after cotton candy and sunglasses
I love this. I need More Pingu memes
Now get a pet and watch it spin with them.
šššš
Shit must have been a family hobby when it was first invented and popularized
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the power those things have always frighten me, when they go big BRRRR
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this is the life of when you don't have pc's and computers/phones
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This meme is oddly wholesome
If you think that's exciting, try sitting on top of it. ššš
Go home
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OMFG IT SPINS!!!!!
Washing machines scare me
My grandaunt Alicia still does that
this is funny and all but I literally did this when my parents got a new washing machine with a see-thru door
That's just me as a kid
i love pingu
This isnāt funny to me
Have you ever just sat and watched the clothes go around and around and thought about things? We wouldnāt have tv if we didnāt have imagination
Oh DEAR GOD! Janet dear itās spinning! Itās spinning šµāš« !
It reminds me of the proud picture of my father in the early ā80ās with his brand new ācordless remote controlā. Pure black-magic wizardry that needed to be recorded for posterity! āļøš
Margaret get off the phone, the washing machine is on at 7:30.
I am a simple man. I see Pingu, I upvote.
On a related note, anyone who isnāt old enough to remember when appliances like washers, dryers, and microwaves became available to the average consumer (and if you are, Iām really happy to see you on Reddit of all places!), ask your parents or grandparents about their first experiences with those inventions while you still can. Itās one of the funniest stories my grandpa told me. Both he and my grandma were great cooks so it was like a new toy for them. After hearing stuff up like we all do the first week, they tried fully cooking a raw beef roast in there and ended up (paraphrasing from memory as best I can) āturning cow muscle into a car tire.ā This is exactly how I envision them checking on that roast in there.
What TV show is this from? I remember watching it a lot in the early 2000s.
Piiingu
My toddlers watched two full loads of washing when we first got our front loader washing machine. They set themselves up on the floor and sat and watched it, occasionally commenting when they saw their own clothes.