Word: washer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hanging out there like wind spoilers. Talks with a trace of a lisp. Looks like he'd be at home on the showroom floor of any Sears store in Middle America, moving metal. Appliances, that is. Be good at it too. Get you right into that Kenmore 831 series washer when what you were really thinking about was the 701 at 56 bucks less. But oh so politely, so that you later reckon it was your idea in the first place. Bet he loves to fish and swap tall tales. Family man. Churchgoer. Never kicked...
...this was not the time to get overly complicated about the whole affair. I dumped all of my clothes in a washer, smacked in 75 cents, and washed cold. Mom had mentioned that cold washing prevents color bleeding...
...more to eat away everyone's leisure time than any other factor. If both mother and father are working to make ends meet, as is the case in 57% of U.S. families, someone still has to find the time to make lunches and pediatrician appointments, shop, cook, fix the washer, do the laundry, take the children to choir practice. Single-parent households are squeezed even more...
...when you're dealing with broken things, you're also dealing in funny stories about how people broke their things. Like? "Some guy came in with a broken watch. Said he'd put it through the washer and dryer...
...over a four-year period starting in 1987. But consumers and the lending industry have already hit upon an alternative: the home-equity loan, which is secured by a house or condominium. Interest on such loans will remain deductible, within some limits. "You go out and buy a new washer and dryer and still get to deduct the interest because in effect you're paying for it with a home-mortgage loan," says Kinzie, the Chicago banker...