CR’s interactive tool leverages product costs, depreciation rates, and survey data to help you make the right choice. Plus, expert advice on what to do next. When your washing machine breaks, how do ...

Fix 90 percent of clothes washer breakdowns with these four easy fixes, including filling and draining problems, grinding noises and a failure to spin. You'll avoid the ...

CONSIDER BEFORE YOU FIX OR NIX. THIS 14 YEAR OLD WASHER IN THE HOME WAS ON THE FRITZ. I WAS AFRAID THAT IF I SPENT THE MONEY TO REPAIR IT, IT WOULD JUST GO OUT AGAIN SOON. AND FRANKLY, I’M SURPRISED ...

More than a third of U.S. adults don’t have the means to pay a $400 unexpected expense without borrowing, a recent Federal Reserve study found, but 59 percent faced such an expense within the prior 12 ...