On 19/09/2016 13:30, Graeme wrote:

Whatever we buy
these days seems to have far more buttons and options than we ever use,
but perhaps we're the ignorant minority.

I'm in the same club then.

"cottons @ 40 degrees" for everything generally on "short cycle", only
variation being a bundle of DIY clothes or whites then it gets the full
length cycle and very occasionally for things like the sofa cover it
gets a "water plus" treatment.

Refusing to wash "her" jumpers also simplifies things enormously.