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Until a couple of years ago, a Maytag washer and dryer that my wife and I bought new on a payment plan when we were first married. It went through eight different houses in four cities and three states, 27 years of marriage and 18 years of twin daughters. Of course, when they needed repairs we thought it would cost about as much as buying new and replaced them. Wish we'd had them repaired regardless of the cost. New ones contain much more plastic instead of steel, have electronics that have already caused problems, take twice as long to wash a load, and generally do not work as well as the old Maytags. The old commercials with the Maytag repairman being bored were true in our experience.