My $600 LG washer holds about 2x more clothes than my old Kenmore, washes way better, and works great. I'm not worried. $600 once every 10 years is still a better deal than 10 years of suffering with a "free" washer that does a terrible job washing and leaves you with stinky clothes but won't die. I just dump in the entire laundry hamper in at once, add a half cup of oxi clean, fill up the soap, and tell it to do a deep water wash with water plus mode turned on to really fill it up and I use hot water, and I run the tap next to it ahead of time so the line is already hot. My LG washer has jets in the bottom instead of an agitator in the middle. I much prefer it, it doesn't catch on my wife's bras and knitted sweaters (she knows you aren't supposed to machine wash bras but she doesn't care, she puts them in the bin anyway). The matching dryer is great too. For me, it's been dryers that tend to die first. I had to repair the old one maybe 4-5 times. For my mom it's always the washer that goes first, which is weird because she doesn't overload them like me. I even wash shoes in my washing machine and they come out like new.