The Replacement

That new dryer we got is a keeper.

Since the old dryer was choosing our best and newest articles of clothing to inflict burns upon, anything else would have been better in comparison. Hanging sweatpants from the van's antenna and booking 60 was looking like a good option in the clothes drying department. So it isn't like the new dryer had to actually prove itself to get instant approval around here.

The first day we had it, while it was sitting in the hallway waiting to replace the old one (which was a fire waiting to happen - wait, it already caught fire once), Micah sprayed the inside with vinegar. (You don't keep a spray bottle of vinegar around the house for various cleaning jobs? Huh. You probably should.) I was fully expecting the first load of laundry to smell like vinegar and made a mental note to myself to wash something that normally reeked and would make vinegar smell like an improvement. Like dog beds.

Mental note forgotten, the first load of clothes ran through that new wonder machine was some of our best clothing. It had already been drying for a while before I saw that note hanging in the corner of my mental office space, so I was a bit apprehensive when the bells alerted me that the clothes were now dried, folded, and ready to be worn. (It's a slight exaggeration.)

Upon opening the door, I found a dollar bill. No pungent vinegar smell, just money. Dude, my new dryer is paying me for my day job as a mom! That's a whole dollar more than I've ever gotten paid for any mom-job in the past 14 years. I'm swooning over an appliance at this point. My husband's position may be in jeopardy.

Micah is in love, too. He discovered the light inside the drum. (Did I not mention that? Oh, yeh. I mocked it at first, but now am a believer. A lighted drum. Oh, be still my beating heart.) Micah plays inside the dryer. With the light on. With two Woodys. He's in love.



As I was watching him play, I spotted this.



It's a quarter stuck in the door. My dryer is also paying me to babysit my kids.

*sigh* Dryer love is awesome.

And get this - the high efficiency model dries a full load in less than half the time my burn-em-at-the-stake model did. How sweet is that?

The only thing that could make this appliance any sweeter is if I had been given it as a freebie to test and rave about. Unfortunately, those kind of things don't befall me. I had to sell a horse to make the purchase. It was a good trade though. The horse was worse at drying clothes than the appliance we just replaced.