My name is Jenn, and I'm a 27 year old married and babied chick. In addition to a husband, a seven year old daughter, and a five year old autistic son, I also have four cats, three hermit crabs, two frogs, a few fish, and one snorty little Pug. I work from home doing a variety of writing and even some web design. I love blogging, digital photography and web design.
I love having a front load washer in terms of having a larger capacity machine that can do more at once. It kind of sucks in terms of height, because with the pedestals beneath both the washer and dryer (those suckers are $200 apiece; can you believe that?!) they’re brought up to almost shoulder height, which makes it impossible to fold clothing on top of them. On the plus side, I can now fold things in mid-air, heh. For pain in the ass things like socks and loads of kiddie clothes, I usually dump everything in a large basket and take it over to the couch to deal with.
The other pain in the ass aspect of having the washer and dryer we do is that we had to remove the shelves that were behind them. There is a shelf higher up, but too high to reach without a chair. And the pedestal drawers are designed to hold laundering items (detergents, dryer sheets, etc.), but all of the bottles I have are too tall to fit. So I stick them on top of the washer. And without fail, during every rinse and spin cycle they all go rattling and rocking off in the different directions.
Until I had an insight and grabbed one of our rubbery placemats and placed the detergent, bleach, fabric softener and Shout bottle on them, and did a trial run with the next load of clothes.
*claps* It holds! Despite how heavy the bottles are, particularly the detergent, those suckers didn’t move an inch during the entire wash cycle. 
So there you have it. Skip expensive non-skid mats and magnetized boxes (yes, they sell those); use a $1 placemat from Target!
You were required to buy the bottom pedestals? My mom didn’t get them because she thought they were unnecessary and cost more than they were worth
Hey Stephanie.
I wasn’t required to, but I chose to because without them, the washer and dryer would have been at pain-in-the-ass heights for bending and putting clothes in and taking them out. Also, for the storage of extra linens — tablecloths, dish rags and bath towels.