The appliance I'd really like to buy is a dishwasher. I'm a thirty-six-year-old mother of two, living in Lahore and working full-time as a bank officer, so the reason might already be obvious.
It's a machine that washes plates, glasses, pots and cutlery automatically. You load the dirty things into racks inside, add a special tablet of detergent, choose a programme and press start. An hour or two later everything comes out clean, and you don't have to touch the water. The one I'm interested in is a slim model that would fit next to our sink, because our kitchen is quite small.
I've looked online and in a couple of shops, and a decent one costs roughly what I earn in a month. That's a lot of money for us, especially since we're also paying for our children's school, so I'd need to save up for it over several months, or wait for a sale during Eid.
There are several reasons I want one. The first and biggest is time. In our family we cook fresh food every day, and we often have relatives over, so after every meal there's a mountain of washing up. I get home at about six, cook, eat, and then spend almost an hour at the sink when I'd rather be helping my kids with their homework. Second, there's often a water shortage in our area, and I've read that dishwashers can actually use less water than washing by hand. And honestly, there's a fairness issue. At the moment most of the washing up falls on me, and a machine would take that argument out of our house.