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Moved from US to UK as a kid, first month there, watching an advert (US: ad) for a domestic appliance on TV and I genuinely asked: "Mom, why are the washing machines here so heavy?"
Washing machines are heavy. I recently had to take one apart and there were 2 concrete blocks in there, I assume to keep it stable while the motor flings your clothes around.
£350-400-heavy? I mean, 350-400 lbs heavy?
Haha maybe not that heavy, it depends when you were seeing those ads and what inflation was like. I reckon in the 90s it would have had £-lb washing machine parity at some point.
This was 1978, back in the days when many people in the UK would rent appliances!
Oh yeah, so less inflation but a much more expensive appliance with less built-in obsolescence! I bet they were heavy AF back then.