What do you look for in a washer/dryer?

What do you look for in a washer/dryer?
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answer:One from a different time when a washer got clothes clean. Not one that uses a teaspoon of water to soothe environmental guilt. Rant over. My mother has been mostly pleased with the line topping Kenmore set from about eight years ago. It’s “high efficiency” but before that trend got out of hand, just. It has a multitude of settings, many of them gentle enough to move me to use it instead of hand washing so many items. The washer has a rinse and spin option that allows me to spin out so much water that items can be dried flat.
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