Actually, I called a friend and he said I should be glad that I don’t have a Korean sister. He’s got it real bad, not only is she a Korean sister, but she’s also a doctor. Not only is she a doctor, but she’s a radiologist.

Anyway, it looks like the two thousand dollar washer/dryer set is going to be more like a three thousand dollar washer/dryer set. When the guys came to deliver it, it wouldn’t fit in our door and they had to take it back. I measured the space to see if it would fit but I forgot to measure the door. Our door is only 28″ wide, they needed at least 29″ of clearance, and a normal narrow outside door is 32″ nowadays.

There are several options here:

1. Get a new door put in, at a cost of at least $1000 more.
2. Have a whole new laundry room built which really needs to be done but it would start with a new foundation and that’s probably around $40,000.
3. Dig stairs into the basement including cutting a hole into the foundation and pouring lots of concrete. That can’t be cheap.
4. Get a cheaper washer/dryer for about $600, which means it would be about $1400 less.
5. Don’t do anything since the old washer and dryer haven’t completely broken yet.

Talking to my friends, the first option was the only one that made sense. However, my sister seems to think that my parents need a new cheap washer, not all this stuff. I pointed out that if we were being cheap, we could just keep the old set. The only person who has trouble with the current washer and dryer is her, since she turned all the whites pink once, and put holes in her clothes. No one else has that kind of trouble. She got mad and hung up on me.

I know, I don’t do much of the laundry lately, but I’ve never dyed the clothes or put holes in them either. I even had to use cheap Japanese washing machines where there’s a wash tub and a spinner tub. There was also no agitator and the clothes all spun into one big ball. My only big problem is that guy landry is easy, and chick laundry is impossible. The most delicate thing in guy laundry is probably the underwear, and that could be made of denim or burlap for all we care. Anything else that is unwashable goes to the dry cleaner.

Anyway, my mom wants the fancy washer, so we need to put in a bigger door. The only downside is that the door leads to a small addition that probably should be torn down and rebuild. Plus getting things into the laundry room doesn’t mean they can go anywhere else since the door from the laundry room to the rest of the house is an even smaller 24″ wide.

In any case, my sister has spent more money on a just a turntable and cassette deck in the past (and I’ve spent more on my ham radio crap) so I don’t know why she’s so against buying a decent washer. This is the first time she’s ever hung up on me. Maybe she wants a larger inheritance. Who knows?