• cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    Washing machines are heavy. I recently had to take one apart and there were 2 concrete blocks in there, I assume to keep it stable while the motor flings your clothes around.

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        3 days ago

        Haha maybe not that heavy, it depends when you were seeing those ads and what inflation was like. I reckon in the 90s it would have had £-lb washing machine parity at some point.

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          3 days ago

          This was 1978, back in the days when many people in the UK would rent appliances!

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            3 days ago

            Oh yeah, so less inflation but a much more expensive appliance with less built-in obsolescence! I bet they were heavy AF back then.