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Airing, And Sharing, My Dirty Laundry

August 30, 2009 By Blonde Mom 5 Comments

Disclosure: As part of my review opportunity for Team Frigidaire, I agreed to post twice this month about my new front-load Affinity washer and dryer. At first I thought, “what the heck am I going to write about ,” but this was before I started using them…almost daily.

In late July my 7-year-old daughter, Miss C, caught a cold from her little sister. She just couldn’t kick the cough and one night I really became concerned when she came to me and told me, “Mommy it hurts here when I cough” and pointed to her chest. It turns out she had pneumonia in her left lung. Cue the mommy freak out music as school was starting in a little more than two weeks. Thankfully within two days of starting on an antibiotic she was asking to go swimming and ride her bike (which I told her, “um, no.”)

Now what does this rambling have to do with my new washer and dryer? I don’t know about you, but when one of my kids gets sick I immediately strip their bed and wash their bed linens. I realized as I was about to start our new washing machine that we had a high temperature sanitize mode and you can better believe I used it.

Here are some additional features on my Affinity washing machine from Frigidaire that I’ve been using frequently (and loving):

Whitest Whites – I love using this for towels, especially. Socks get a beating at our house, too.

Delicates/Hand Wash – I have some nicer items I wear to my office that I like to wash on delicate.

Another bonus feature is the fact that the Affinity washing machine is incredibly quiet during the wash cycle. Both appliances are energy saving, too. I have yet to use the delay wash feature but I’d like to try this on a day I am scheduled to go into my office.

As far as the dryer, I am using the Towels/Bedding feature the most. Even though there are only four of us in our household, it seems like I am constantly washing and drying towels, especially in the summer if we hit the pool.

I also love the storage pedestals that are optional to purchase with the washer and dryer, something I would highly recommend. Our utility room is a long and narrow space and having additional out-of-sight storage is wonderful.

Now if I can just get the rest of my utility room organized, it will be the ideal laundry room!

Thanks again Frigidaire and Mom Central!

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Just Call Me The Diva Of Dirty Laundry

August 27, 2009 By Blonde Mom 14 Comments

We’ve been using our brand new Affinity front load washing machine and dryer from Frigidaire for more than a month now and I’ve got to tell you I LOVE THEM. I actually don’t mind doing laundry any more because walking into our utility room feels like walking into my own personal laundromat minus the 80s video games and the magazines (also from the 80s.) Of course I still hate folding and putting away laundry, but that’s another story.

Seriously if it is possible to truly adore appliances, then I have appliance love. I feel like a rock star doing laundry because they’re so state-of-the art I actually don’t mind washing dirty clothes or dirty whatever. Dog beds? Sofa slipcovers? Full-size comforters? These bad boys can take it!

I am also loving the storage pedestals and use them to stow away our bleach, fabric softener sheets, and even our iron. Our utility room is long and narrow so to have additional, yet hidden, storage space was a bonus.

Speaking of bonus, you’ll see from this video that even Miss C now wants to do laundry. Miss A, per usual, just wants to play her pink electric guitar.

Thanks again to Mom Central and Frigidaire for this amazing review opportunity and also to Rico and Ronald at A1 Appliance here in Nashville who tolerated me ooohing and aaaaaahing over our new washer and dryer while they installed them!

So tell me, what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever washed in your washing machine? I’m thinking mine is soccer shin guards, although honestly that’s probably not that weird.

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Oh Dishwasher, Where Art Thou

July 9, 2009 By Blonde Mom 12 Comments

I was obviously very excited about testing a new swanky-fied Frigidaire dishwasher as part of their mom blogger test drive campaign, but there’s been a slight change of plans.

The dishwasher release date has been postponed until this fall so the Mom Central PR team working with Frigidaire gave me the option of selecting another fabulous swanky-fied Frigidaire appliance to review or wait this fall for the dishwasher. Although we could use a new dishwasher, as ours was in our kitchen nine years ago when we bought our house, our 12-year-old washing machine, as if on cue, started leaking horribly the day after I found out about the dishwasher review opportunity oh happy, stinky day. Not.

So…I’m getting these bad boys instead!

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I’m also getting the 15-inch storage pedestals which I am very excited about as storage is a problem in our utility room. 15-inches of storage! This is organizational porn at its finest folks. I am actually looking forward to doing laundry!

I’ve chosen white, rather than the red, which I realize is boring and practical but I have a feeling that there will be nothing boring and practical about washing the girls’ Hannah Montana undies again. Although I am really turned on by the cheery red, the walls of our utility room are a cranberry color and it would really clash and then it would turn into a redecorating project that I’m not really wanting to take on.

Our new Frigidaire washer and dryer will be installed in the next few weeks and I’ll be sure to update at that time.

One of my favorite movies is Oh Brother Where Art Thou, so in honor of moms everywhere who never see the end to the mountains of dirty laundry, I give you my version of Man of Constant Sorrow.

Woman of Constant Housework

I am a woman of constant housework

(chorus) In constant housework through her days

I am a woman of constant housework
I see laundry all my day.
I bid farewell to that luxury called free time
Because now I’ve got kids to raise.

(chorus) Because now she’s got kids to raise.

For seven long years I’ve been a washing
No pleasures here in the laundry room
For in this world I’m bound to dirty britches

And my kids won’t wield a broom

(chorus) Her kids won’t wield a broom.

I’ll soon bid farewell my old washer and dryer
They’ve been run a million times.
I can’t wait to try my new ones
That are sure to make our clothes look fine.

(chorus) That are sure to make her clothes look fine.

I think I’ll bury myself in piles of laundry
For many hours where I may lay
Then I may realize my children have no clothes on
While I am napping my day away

(chorus) While she is napping her day away.

Maybe my friends think I’m a strange blogger
But face you’ll see light up when I hear Frigidare
There is one promise that has been given
I’ll have a beautiful new washer and dryer this summer!

(chorus) She’ll have a new washer and dryer this summer!