Consider that a typical household does nearly 400 loads of laundry per year, using about 40 gallons of water per full load with a conventional washer. You could save as much as 7,000 gallons of water per year and the energy that would have been needed to heat that water. This adds up to savings for you and a big boost for the environment. The first price tag is the purchase price from the appliance store. The second price tag is the cost to operate the appliance over its lifetime.
Consumers pay to operate the appliance every month for as long as they own the appliance.
To reduce water consumption, they spray clothes with repeated high-pressure rinses to remove soap residues rather than soaking them in a full tub of rinse water. This is a useful feature for people short on space, such as apartment dwellers, she suggests. Check with manufacturers to see which models are available in this configuration. The refrigerator is the single biggest power consumer in most households. And the older your refrigerator is, the more power it burns.