You need to get out of Target and Amazon and spend about twice what you’re trying to budget for this. Forty bucks is going to get you crap.

Speed Queen and Miele

LOL I am glad someone posted this.

Speed Queen

Dude, check out Pacific Coast.

Super high quality, made in America pillow that are well worth their cost.

Slept on them at a posh bed and breakfast in Montgomery, northern Vermont, and had one of the best nights of sleep of my adult life.

Ordered them as soon as we got home and still love them like 5-6 years later. No compression or loss of comfort whatsoever.

Now, I refuse to consider them BIFL just due to their nature and the eventual accumulation of more gross human things than I’ll be comfortable with, but these have been an excellent purchase for my wife and I.

You want the best value for money, go Japanese.

You want something that you will pass on in your family and will hold value and can be used as an asset, buy Swiss.

You just care about the aesthetics and price, buy Chinese or "US made" with foreign parts.

100% Chaco’s forever. They last me about a decade per pair and are built to be resoled and have webbing replaced.

I can't speak to the buy-it-for-life quality, but I just bought a couch and loveseat from sabai.design. They seem really well-made, plus sustainable, made in the US, diverse ownership, etc. Anyway, I'm pretty dang happy with them so far.

I got mine from a local cobbler. Cost me less than $40 and it's made out of saddle leather or "sole" leather. It's been with me for 10 years and Ive just change the buckle because I got bored of the old one.

Red Land Cotton. The best you will ever buy

Not a hotel pillow but instead of down, why don’t you buy shredded latex by the pound. I forget offhand how many pounds it takes for the average pillow, more than one, but the advantage is you can add it or take away until you reach you comfort level.

Mine has been disappointing too. My MoVado has worked for over 30 years with no problems except the latch needed to be tightened.

Red land cotton grown and made in the us.

Nah im with everyone else. This is as buy it for life as a ziplock bag

I think it sounds pretty good compared to other speakers of its size. What are your opinions on its specific sound quality?

By last legs, what do you mean? Most washing machines can be repaired. If you can do it yourself, part prices are usually not too expensive.

The class action lawsuit did independent testing and is completely unrelated to NYT…

LTT solid gold controller >!(not really)!<

I'm glad it lasted but you missed the important part. Crappy quality in the sound department.

Yes. Compared to a quality front loader like a Miele, they wear out the clothes very quickly.

I did a big outback road trip, and using the coin laundries in caravan parks and like (almost all speed queen), pilled, faded and thinned my clothes drastically faster than my front loader at home.

It was an outback trip too, so it was 90% cotton shirts and shorts. I wasn’t washing fine silks or delicate synthetics.

I had a couple of sets of ‘nice’ clothes for the odd dinner in a town, and those speed queens flogged the shit out of them too.

Until you have owned a quality front loader, you don’t realise how long clothes can actually last.

I had a sonicare and it broke past the warranty period…called them and they replaced it and shipped it for free. Told me to trash the broken one. Great customer service.

My wife bought it at sofa mart here in mid Michigan don’t know if there still in business

I bought mine from Restoration Hardware ~3 years ago and they’re in top condition. Pricey but worth it!

I bought a cheap one from Target; Casa Luna?

It's good enough I went back and bought another.

It is not BIFL, but it's better than the $100 (!!!) pillows it replaced.

Speed Queen if it’s in your budget.