Replacement Buying Guides

Four specs decide this purchase: capacity, format (front-load or top-load), the two efficiency numbers behind the ENERGY STAR badge, and whether the machine fits the room with its door open. Everything else on the spec sheet exists to separate two models on a showroom floor. What follows gives you the capacity table everyone publishes —…

November — and the honest follow-up is that it barely matters. Over the twenty complete years from 2005 to 2024, the federal government’s Major Appliances price index averaged further below its own annual average in November than in any other month, and November was the year’s cheapest month six times out of twenty. But the…