Confessions of a Reluctant Laundress

I love my washer. Is that so wrong? My brother-in-law just moved and doesn't need his old set, so he offered them to me. They're a matched set of LG front-load stackables - beautiful, energy efficient, must have been expensive.

But I just cannot ignore how much I love my top-load washer - it's the first one I've ever had that can handle all the clothes my family of 5 accumulates in a week. Plus towels -- loads of them (pun intended). And even pillows and a comforter from time to time.

I was sort of freaking out about making a choice between my "old" washer (bought last year) and this gift-horse one. I was kind of driving my husband nuts.

"So take your old washer and the new dryer when we move," he said.

"But they won't match," I told him.

"Will it matter when you go to wash a sleeping bag?"

Well played, sir. I'll keep the washer, matching or not.