 Have you ever wondered what you need to look for when purchasing an appliance? Well, let me give you an example. When I was younger, my dad used to take you to the Dairy Queen. And when you got there, you had your choice of vanilla cone, vanilla cone, or vanilla cone, the choice is relatively easy. You go to the Dairy Queen today and you can see there are many more choices on the menu. Looks like that with appliances too, they come in all shapes and sizes. You really need to do your homework before you buy one. Now an example of this is when I refer to a standard size appliance. It's the dishwasher, the range, and the micro-wood. And these are standard sizes because no matter what brand you buy, they're all the same. That's because they have to fit in to a built-in cabinet space. And that space doesn't change so each one is manufactured with the same size. Whereas your non-standard sizes, your washer, dryer, refrigerator, they come in all shapes and sizes and they can usually fit anywhere since they're free standard or free standing. So then we have different colors to choose from. When I first started working on appliance 30 years ago, poppy, which is like a reddish orange with poppy, then it went to copper tone, then avocado green, harvest gold, almond, bisque, white, black, and now stainless steel is the current color. So again, it's up to you. You have many choices to go and will one color go with the other one. And then we're talking about refrigerators. There's four different kinds. There's top mount, bottom mount, side by side, and French door. Each has advantages and disadvantages. The top mount is what we all grew up with, where the freezer in the top and the refrigerator is on the bottom. And this is the most popular one for many years, but its disadvantage is although it's got a good size freezer, you need to bend over to get to the crisper all the time when you're always in the refrigerator, a lot more than you are in the freezer. And that's what gave rise to the bottom mount, where the manufacturers put the freezer in the bottom, refrigerator in the top. Now you don't cut a bad door. So much but these are less energy efficient, so they have their drawbacks. The next is the side by side, which we have right here. And this biggest drawback, although you think you have more freezer space, if you look at the door here, it isn't very wide. In fact, usable space on the inside is even less. So imagine you want to put a frozen turkey, a frozen pizza, things like that in your freezer, and you find out what don't fit. Well, in that case you better have a chest freezer. You want to put them in. Also the ice maker in these takes up quite a bit of space, so you really don't have a lot of usable freezer space. The biggest advantage is right here, in that you get water and ice in the door. Now the French door refrigerator, which is the newest kind of market, the freezer is in the bottom, but instead of having one big door on top, you've got two doors which pull out. And they seem to be the best of both worlds because the freezer is in the bottom, plus you can get ice and water in the door, plus some manufacturers even actually put an ice maker in the bottom, as well as the top. Of course, they're also the most expensive. And finally, what you want to consider is service after the sale. In the event, the unfortunate event, that your appliance breaks down during the warranty or even after the warranty, most retailers who you buy appliance nowadays don't have a service department, so you need to find out who it is that services the appliances in your area. So again, when the unfortunate event that something breaks down, you're able to have somebody repair it, you don't have to go out and purchase a new one. So these are just some of the considerations you need to make when purchasing an appliance.