A; Good old-fashioned bribes can still get a washer/dryer in.
The influx of young families and rising real estate prices has spurred demand, but many buildings in the city still forbid private washer/dryers. Avoids the allegedly dire threat of "sudsing, they say."
But many stores will happily repack them in refrigerator boxes, and for a few hundred bucks, many supers will just as happily look the other way when the fridges go up the elevator. You suburbanites may now laugh.
The Ultimate Luxury [nyt]
We just moved to the suburbs and I gotta tell you: very few things in my life give me as much pleasure as (1) pulling into my garage at night and (2) doing laundry.
I'm laughing very hard, I assure you!!
Just to rub it in... our new whirlpool duet washer and dryer are being delivered on Friday.
[um, mine, too, only I had them disassembled and put into 40 shopping bags from Barney's. -ed.]