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We just stopped at a post office in a plaza with a laundromat. I saw someone carrying a bag of laundry from the parking lot. Reminded me of my younger years and weekly trips to a laundromat. Having my own reminds me of good luck
jmbar2
(8,259 posts)I'm blessed now to have my own, but remember well having to spend about $20 to do full laundry run.
Diamond_Dog
(41,414 posts)It is a huge PITA! I am grateful for my own washer and dryer, too. Laundromats these days are expensive!
biophile
(1,650 posts)Every day, I give thanks for running water - my well, well pump, and water heater, too.
One old saying is You will know the worth of water when the well runs dry. I think there may come a time when we all need to be grateful for fresh drinking water. We take it for granted here.
HappyH
(275 posts)My well does not do real well with a prolonged period of dry weather. Always grateful to finish a shower without the pump saver cutting the water off.
AnotherMother4Peace
(5,215 posts)MIButterfly
(3,400 posts)The washer's spin cycle at the end doesn't work so all the laundry comes out soaking wet, as if I'd washed it all by hand and the dryer doesn't work at all. I have a wooden drying rack and short clothesline in the basement so I can hang wet clothes to dry. But towels, sheets, blankets and the bedspread must be taken to the laundromat. I was just there yesterday.
The only good thing I can say about the laundromat is that you can do lot of loads at once. But it is expensive to wash; $4.00 for the small washer. The dryer is more reasonable, a quarter for six minutes. I initially put in enough money for 36 minutes, but sometimes I have to keep adding more quarters to get everything completely dry.
Don't get me started on some of the weird people I've seen at the laundromat. I try to go on the slower days but even then, I might see one.
A new washer and dryer are on my wish list, but not in my budget at this time.
Marthe48
(23,699 posts)Hope things improve for you.
NNadir
(38,789 posts)Bleach will kill a septic system and the last one put me out $40,000.
The laundromat is on a city sewer system.
I dry the whites at home.
Ziggysmom
(4,182 posts)A wash here is $2.50. We were forced to downsize when my now deceased husband became disabled. At least I dont have to mow a lawn or shovel snow. The main plus is I have great neighbors that look out for each other. I do miss having a garden though.