• cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk
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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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        2 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.