I was speaking to a lady working on one of the tills in Morrison's a few weeks ago. She told me she has 7 children and does two washes in her machine every day. She went on to say that she usually has a washing machine for about 2-3 years and then it breaks down and she gets another one This is, she told me, because a new basic machine is around £200.00 and it is cheaper to get a new one than call out an Engineer to fix the old one, which she reckons is worn out after a few years.