Just cold water!!!

They can keep it. I wouldn't take it for FREE!

Watch what I tell you, in a few years they will all be cold, wait and see.

Sure seems like a trend. Even the textiles care labels all indicate cold wash, even cotton. Thanks but no thanks.

Wow. I would only use the heavy duty cycle with hot. Sparky is right. This is the new trend.

When I bought my HE TL 2 weeks ago, I noticed the traditional TL is gone (or at least none were on the sales floor). I was forced to buy either a FL or HE TL.

I'd say we have 10 years before hot water options are gone.

Washing on cold saves some energy but requires more detergent and time to compensate. It doesn't seem like a good trade to me. Maybe we should do away with detergents too and all wash in cold water with laundry balls? That will be next.

I just read an article (published in 2014) in which P & G said it was their goal to see 70% of all washing to be done in cold. Because I am sharing good news, I would also like to add that the powers that be are also testing new water-efficient dishwashers, which so far, don't seems to work well because, it seems, you need water to clean dishes

I think we need to make friends with all of those lovely young men on AW...we're going to need them.

Alex --- Yikes. Just . . . yikes. We will all be using more energy on our stoves to boil up a 10-gallon hot wash if that change becomes the "norm."

mamapinky - if the gov't wants to fiddle with A/C settings, they'd better set the example and change their own first --- in their gov't offices *and* homes --- before they inflict that on their voters. I can't see heart-condition patients living in homes that are 90-100°F in the summer. The A/C units wouldn't even run enough to pull the humidity out, causing mold problems in homes, etc.

There's a hot water wash on there so it's only missing a warm water wash. We've come a long way from boiling water, washboards and lye soap. I'm old enough to remember a wringer washer and line drying. We also ironed sheets and pillowcases. Today's clothing has a lot of knit and knit variants that prefer cold water washes. Most people could run 80% of their laundry on a fast-wash using cold water because they may change one-three lightly soiled garments every day and throw them in the hamper instead of hanging them up. For those people, this washer would make sense.

Moro, sometimes I feel like I'm still back in the day...lol. I probably would have been a good laundress back in the day of large rocks by the river and a bar of homemade lavender soap. Even my automatic washer rarely is allowed to just be automatic lol. I think I'm going to put a load in start it add the products and walk away, I'll bet everything is clean and the world doesn't end.

Pink, ANY automatic washer beats pinching fingers in a wringer washer or having to boil water or tromp outside in the freezing wind to hang stuff up then going back out and thawing the sheets. My folks farmed in MO and there were some lean times in our lives even though I'm only in my mid-50's. When the rural power would go out, a well would go dry, whatever the issue, we still had those old manual items on hand. When I worked for hotels, they used those huge iron rollers for the sheets and after a INS-scare once, all sales personnel got a quick lesson on how to work in an industrial laundry.

Moro, my mother used a wringer washer until I was 9, in the basement beside huge double utility sinks, she had clotheslines all over the basement. Mom was a hard worker as was most adults in the 60's with a family to care for,4 kids all a year or so apart and a drunk for a husband she worked full time in a sewing factory making clothing, than had the house and laundry for 6 people to do, our house was a farm house minus the farm lol..yet with all she had to do our home was immaculate, clothing clean and ironed and meals prepared, I don't know how she did this, pretty much on her own. But I used to watch her using that wringer, even than I was fasinated with laundry and everything that went with it, I remember thinking someday I'm going to make my clothes look as nice as mom did..I remember handing her dirty wrinkly clothing and when those dresses again appeared in my closet, they looked new. I still want a wringer washer, just to play with out in the back yard. Lol..we moved to town when i was 9 mom finially left the drunk, we moved right beside a huge laundramat that my two aunts had..talk about fun..I loved it, that laundramat was my second home and my #1 hangout, I loved helping and using the key to open the bottom of the dryers and sweeping them out. I would walk up and down the rows of washers and lift lids just to peek at the action, and I would wait for someone to come in carting their laundry hoping they would ask my help, small country town every one knew each other, so if someone said Cheryl could you start this load for me...I was in heaven, my greatest enjoyment, I hung out in that laundramat as much as I could until I was 24 years old, even taking my babies along, until a fire took my playground..I was destined to love all things related to laundry.. lol. Sorry for the rant

But I agree about automatic washers making life easier, it sure does.

Love these stories about laundry fascination. We had a Maytag wringer and it was a thing of beauty to me. I didn't participate in the washing as anything other than sometimes pushing the clothes through with the sturdy water smoothed stick. The unit was eventually donated to the church where it continued to provide service for quite a few years.

Y'all can tell these stories all day long, and I would never tire of listening to them.

When I was first married I had a wringer washer outside on the porch. We were dirt poor and picked it up for $15.00 at a flea market. I filled it with the garden hose and hung my clothes on the line and felt like a Queen while doing it because I didn't have to go use the laundromat.

When we bought our first home it came with a washer. I thought I was in heaven! My own home and a washer too! Not 6 months down the road the washer died and in came my wringer! I don't remember how long I used it but I do know that machine was a workhorse! I would love to have it today to use for greasy mechanic clothes.