I’m okay with appliance making cute little dings or buzzes but if they chime out a full song it creeps me right out. I’m gonna get the clothes out of the wash you don’t have to scream “Mary had a Little Lamb” at me.
Every time our dryer is done my husband or I exclaim “I won!!”, it sounds like we just won a big prize. The microwave fucking SCREAMS at me, I don’t know what his deal is
We have a German brand washing machine that makes an ear piercing beep when the wash is done and repeats doing this every minute for 15 minutes straight. It is the most annoying and attention-seeking appliance in the house.
When it was time to replace the dryer, we intentionally got an Asian model with a lovely little tune that’ll play exactly once. I’ll never get tired of hearing that tune, because that god awful washing machine will always remind me of the alternative.
My washing machine has this repeating beep too. If you haven’t done so, check the manual: on mine there’s a setting to disable it.
Thank you so much for that suggestion!
It was right there in the manual, I really am an idiot sometimes. The beeping is softer now. It’s still super shrill and repeating, but at least it doesn’t give me an heart attack :)
I can’t disable it entirely, there’s too much washing going on to just ignore it completely. But this definitely helps!
I also appreciate a beep, but by te third note it becomes a tune and I want to throw it out the window.
Or the appliance that just has a flat monotone beep but it has to be like six times cl and you can’t adjust that.
You should definitely search for your appliance beeping or notification noise adjust or turn off, cuz a lot of them have a factory setting or something where you can hold in the power button for 10 seconds and turn it off or change it or something like that.
Any appliance that beeps when I press a button is annoying.
Edit: anything → any appliance
It’s pretty great when it’s done well though. But it’s so rarely done well.
I’ve heard appliances make beeps or sing songs that clearly meant “job completed successfully”, or “low battery”, or “I need rescued before I can work again” without any need to consult a manual.
