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This. Some people in the comments below mention how it saves them money and energy. $27 is not even my coffee budget for a month.

The only thing I agree with is we need more of the "integrated" washer-driers, or an automatic way to transfer clothes from one to the other. I would pay good money to save myself the effort of bending and moving wet (heavy) cold clothes, and instead have the convenience of having everything ready when I wake up.

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FWIW - When I've used washer-drier combos I haven't enjoy the convenience of discovering my clothes are all damp. They just don't dry well, so the do-it-all-while-away convenience is only true maybe 50% of the time. The other 50% of time it backfires badly and you have to redo the wash.

Damp? Then it's a drying problem. I'll push on one button and check again 1h later. And I'll figure a way to double the drying time so that it doesn't happen again. So what if it's not as time-efficient as a separate drier? I don't care how long it takes during my sleep!

The absolute worst case of 1 button push is still worth the convenience of not having to move damp clothes.

For perspective, about one billion people live on $30-60 dollars a month and out of all of humans, only one billion make more than $32 per day.

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