On Feb 8, 7:11 pm, " wrote:
or spending thousands on a front load washer dryer pair......

the added cost of the unit, will never save money during the average
life of the machines.

Nonsense. A front-loader wrings out the water from the clothes much
more, leading to less drying time. In the winter, a clothes dryer
takes warm air from inside the house and dumps it outside. The less
time it runs, the better. So a front-loader saves you money there.

More importantly, a top-loader is a primitive form of "washing"
clothes, involving flapping an agitator in soapy water, and in the end
wearing clothes with half the wash detergent in them still. A front-
loader actually washes clothes. This is why the $4 machine at the
laundromat is a front-loader.

worse the machines are less reliable and cost
much more to repair

Nonsense. The early US-made front-loaders had problems, they were beta-
testing at the time. The Asian- and Europe-made ones did not, and the
current US ones are fine too.