Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Keep your top loader as long as you can. I have a front loader and don't like it. It doesn't use much water to wash the clothes and it doesn't always get them very clean either. Sometimes I'll have to wash certain things twice. Also, I think it is harder on the clothes than a top loader. It doesn't seem to spin them dry as well either. Also, they get a moldy smell from water collecting in the front.

Maybe I just don't have a very good one, but for my next washer I will go back to a top loader. Unfortunately all the new top loaders use alot less water than the old ones so I'm not too hopeful about them. I guess you are supposed to put fewer clothes in them, but it will take up more time to do more loads of laundry. If I could find a good old-fashioned working top loader second-hand I would buy it.