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Durable goods I can vouch for

daisukitoo:

h3lldalg0:

kontextmaschine:

Rothco M65 BDU Pants – the most faithful replica of the old ‘80s-‘90s army pants that’ve emptied out of surplus stocks by now. I think there might be some single stitching where the originals were double stitched, but other than that the only difference I can tell is the “Made in China” tag

Condor 3 Day Assault Pack - I shop at surplus stores, can you tell? The most durable, functional backpack I’ve ever had. On the motorcycle, this is my trunk, and if I pack it myself I can get 3+ bags of groceries in there.

Speed Queen washing machines - the exact opposite of the sleek new “high efficiency” washers (which are inferior planned obsolescence riffing off California regulations riffing off the optics of the water crisis without addressing its agricultural basis), they’re square laundromat-quality machines that work right fast and I’m told last for 20+ years

Seconding Speed Queen washers. 

Our Speed Queen washer is pretty great, after 10+ years of use (and I don’t know how old it was when we moved in).

The Speed Queen dryer died last year, and we couldn’t find a washer we liked to match a new dryer. They seem not terribly reliable in general? Maybe we need to look for a new Speed Queen.

Oh, the washers in particular - for drying I got a Samsung that beeps a ridiculously long and cheery song at me when it finishes a cycle (and, @discoursedrome, those purchases were heavily informed by Consumer Reports reviews, so). A lot of matched washer-dryer pairs really only have one good one and rely on people’s aesthetic perfectionism to carry the other.