For household appliances to be used in this manner, they would have to be completely automated. Sure, I could choose to run my laundry cycle at 8pm rather than 5:30pm, but the convenience factor of doing it when I want to do it is going to trump the pennies they'd give me to wait, every single time.
Now, if all I had to do was dump all my dirty laundry in a hamper, and it automatically sorts it and folds it after it's done washing, now that's something I don't care about anymore and can just let a program decide when it wants to accomplish each step.
Now, if all I had to do was dump all my dirty laundry in a hamper, and it automatically sorts it and folds it after it's done washing, now that's something I don't care about anymore and can just let a program decide when it wants to accomplish each step.