Maybe because I'm a woman I was thinking of the sheets - we still don't have a washing machine.

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If I can purchase a pension 24 hours a day over the phone, surely it should be possible to have a washing machine delivered and installed on a Saturday?

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Fire officers said smoke alarms had helped alert the residents to the blaze which is believed to have started in a washing machine.

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The washing machine or vaccum cleaner as examples of the technology that have freed women from household drudgery, the contraceptives that have continued their economic emancipation are also on the list.

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Both parties have to register their fingerprints using a biometric scanner that's plugged into the washing machine, which will only work if it scans a different finger than the one used before (you could also trick the machine and use two of your own fingers when you first set things up, but you'd only be fooling yourself right?).

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For instance, if the washing machine goes wrong, the tenants will want it replaced immediately, and you need to have the money for that.

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We have wonderful friends and neighbors and a million dollar view from the porch, a real kitchen, a washing machine, a lawn mower stuff that is foreign to city dwellers.

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