So Max and I have been putting off our laundry for awhile…two weeks to be exact. Mostly because we have both been feeling crummy lately, also because the weather has been less than ideal for hauling two bags of clothes (and a basket!) to the laundry room. It wasn’t until today, when we realized the complete lack of clothign we were facing that we decided to man up and get washing. We waited until the late evening, 9pm, to be exact, because we knew we would be using a lot of washers/dryers and we didn’t want to inconvienence anyone. Lucky for us, the place was desserted.
Now, prior to this laundry endeavour we each contributed $20 to the laundry card…this is because putting money on it is kind of a big pain in the butt, and we can never be sure how much one trip will cost. So, as we loaded the clothes into the washers, this is where we started:
Money – $40
Time – 9pm
Washers Used – 6
Okay, so I am a little ashamed that we needed SIX packed-full washers to clean all our clothes. Granted, we included our bedding and our rugs, as well as 4-6 dirty towels. Thirty minutes and $6.90 later, we were loading our clothes into all the open dryers. Standings as follows:
Money – $33.10
Time – 9:30pm
Dryers Used – 4
To be honest, I despise residence dryers. Half the time it’s broken and it eats your money, the other half it takes a lifetime to get your clothes dry. We spent about half an hour sorting out our items under some stress, and set all four dryers to 90 minutes (the most time these dryers allow). When we returned, and hour and a half later, the clothes were still mighty damp, damp enough to warrant a second round of 90 minutes on each dryer. Which brings us to now. Here is where we are.
Money – $19.75 (yes, our laundry has costed us $20.25 thus far)
Time – 1:45am (that’s nearly five hours of waiting….)
Patience – 2 (let’s just hope that those clothes are dry when we check them…)
I suppose the moral of the story is that doing laundry in residence is never really that fun, especially if you procrastinate with clothes. Also, they kind of rip you off. Trust me, if I had one third the clothes I have in each of those dryers, they still wouldn’t be dry after 90 minutes of tumbling. Oh, and always use the high temperature setting, or else you are just wasting your money. Maybe I should invest in a drying rack…or six.
I guess the upside is I will certainly appreciate my own private washer/dryer, whenever I have enough money to live somewhere else!
EDIT: The clothes were, in fact, dry. Though we spent just under an hour folding and hanging them all! (Current time: 3:11am —- Start to Finish: 6 hours, 11 minutes)