Washing is the bain of my life. I have a fisher and paykel 8kg washer, which does what Vanita's does, I push power and start and it senses weight of load and off it goes. Before we had our 3rd i had a machine that was unbalancing all the time and I just went off one day and DH went and brought the new one.

I wouldn't have a small machine anyway, even if we had only 2 kids. i like to load it up and I would burn out a little machine very quickly, the way i pack it in LOL.

I too do about 2 loads a day and these are FULL loads. It's not so much the filling of the machine that is the problem, its the drying and putting away that gets me.

Cheers Michelle