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how should/could laundry work?
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What's your experience? I've been washing my clothes mostly always in laundromats for 20+ years. They are not fine.
you can show up and have to wait around because someone else came and filled every single machine at once
Some places in the US have what are called "wash and folds" where your drop off your laundry and they'll do it for you, usually charging by the pound. You pick it up folded.
Even some dry cleaners will do this.
Obviously more expensive than a laundromat, but, as always, it's a question of how much you value your time.
I was eyeing a wash n fold for a while but then I moved and now there isn't one anywhere close. I was procrastinating the whole thing because it felt too.. lazy. But holy fuck I hate the laundromat.
Laundromats suck. No argument here.
I'm in a rural area so the traffic to laundromats is pretty low; my experience probably doesn't match the typical one! The machines all worked, there were rarely more that one or two people, etc.
Yeah, the time lost to laundry in of itself is a pain. I could bring a book, but I still gotta carve out a block of time to do me and someone else's laundry. I gotta do it often as well, since I got a messy job and not a lot of clothes. I mean, I got a lot of clothes but it's hard to find the time to break out my sewing kit and fix up some of my pants.