My appliances are out to get me!

When we bought our townhouse in December 1999, it came with 3 free appliances, and my parents bought us the other two, and we decided to stick with the same manufacturer for all, just to be consistent. But so far we've had issues with 4 out of the 5 of them! The first incident was with the washer. A few years ago, my stepson was doing a load of laundry and when he set the water level, it was set in between two different levels, so the machine didn't know when to stop filling up with water. We didn't notice for about a half hour or so, and by then there was quite a lot of water in the basement. It took two days to dry out the carpets, and it ruined my favorite digital scale :( The next issue was with the oven, one of the elements inside it broke off, so it wasn't getting as hot and we wondered why sometimes our food would actually come out of the oven still partially frozen! Luckily that was a cheap do it yourself fix. Then the handle on the fridge broke off! And now our latest issue is with the dryer, the dial which controls the time no longer moves on it's own, so the dryer will just keep running forever and never shuts off. Great. So whenever you're drying clothes you need to be constantly checking to see when the clothes are fully dry, so you can manually shut it off. Needless to say, I've been entering a lot of contests to win all new appliances! :) Heck, at least our dishwasher isn't out to get us.....yet!