Laundry !!!!

[Pizza]

Doing laundry makes me smile. I guess it's partly because I was going to laundry mats for five months, after I moved here. I hated to do it, but last month I broke down and spent $989 on a stackable apartment-style laundry combo.

I was putting only about $6.50 a week into laundry mats - we are looking at four years to pay back the money I spent at that rate. And, well, now having it here in the home, I am doing more laundry - I have "car laundry" to do, which is about one load a week - but still, it will be over three years to "pay back" the $989 I took from savings for these machines.

But it sure is nice to be able to sit here and get laundry done without the hassle of packing up and heading across town to a laundry mat. Yea, there is a load in the dryer right now.....

 

[jasonc]

Doing laundry makes me smile. I guess it's partly because I was going to laundry mats for five months, after I moved here. I hated to do it, but last month I broke down and spent $989 on a stackable apartment-style laundry combo.

I was putting only about $6.50 a week into laundry mats - we are looking at four years to pay back the money I spent at that rate. And, well, now having it here in the home, I am doing more laundry - I have "car laundry" to do, which is about one load a week - but still, it will be over three years to "pay back" the $989 I took from savings for these machines.

But it sure is nice to be able to sit here and get laundry done without the hassle of packing up and heading across town to a laundry mat. Yea, there is a load in the dryer right now.....

I don't miss those days. yet with all the development since I was born. there hasn't been any increase here of building those,in fact state and county hammers anyone who tries to build a new one with fees. we have tripled in population and yet haven't added but one more new Laundromat here, and closed another.

 

[Pizza]

The 'poor' make up the most of a laundry mat's customers - and yet, we tax and burden the laundry mat, when the rest of us do laundry in the home and don't end up paying all those fees and taxes. This raises the cost of doing laundry for those who can afford it the least.

But, that is how we run our country.

But this was INTENDED to be a light-hearted thread where ladies come in and snap my head off because "Laundry is not fun, Mark! Stop posting stuff like this!"

 

[reba]

 

[jasonc]

The 'poor' make up the most of a laundry mat's customers - and yet, we tax and burden the laundry mat, when the rest of us do laundry in the home and don't end up paying all those fees and taxes. This raises the cost of doing laundry for those who can afford it the least.

But, that is how we run our country.

But this was INTENDED to be a light-hearted thread where ladies come in and snap my head off because "Laundry is not fun, Mark! Stomp posting stuff like this!"

make sense doesn't it? yes one in particular that I see daily as it on the last of my paper route is the oldest one that I know of, yet they haven't replaced those machines since I can remember them. the dryers yes but the washers? by large no, so they charge more to use them it was 75 cents to wash, now its 2 bucks to wash. same machine. I understand the cost of water and electric being the issue in cost increases and some for maintance, but that much in a decade or two?

 

[Pizza]

I was paying $2.50 for a top loader and $4 for a front loader. I don't see that as out of line - we are talking commercial machines - even the top loaders were kinda big. Dryers run 7 to 10 minutes for 25cents. I thought the dryers would be way more than that by now.

The reason they are not replacing machines is gov't again - the new top loaders don't fill very much. No laundry mat will have top loaders when the existing ones are gone. In 2011, the gov't forced manufacturers to limit water use, even by top loaders. My new top loader here in the apartment only fills with 7 inches of water - about 40% full. I run small loads, but a lot of loads because of this. No, it saves no water - but the enviro-crazies were satisfied.

 

[jasonc]

I was paying $2.50 for a top loader and $4 for a front loader. I don't see that as out of line - we are talking commercial machines - even the top loaders were kinda big. Dryers run 7 to 10 minutes for 25cents. I thought the dryers would be way more than that by now.

The reason they are not replacing machines is gov't again - the new top loaders don't fill very much. No laundry mat will have top loaders when the existing ones are gone. In 2011, the gov't forced manufacturers to limit water use, even by top loaders. My new top loader here in the apartment only fills with 7 inches of water - about 40% full. I run small loads, but a lot of loads because of this. No, it saves no water - but the enviro-crazies were satisfied.

I have heard of that, so we well save the earth by doing what? using more water and power to wash. makes sense doesn't it?

 

[Pizza]

If doing laundry is gonna kill the planet - we should ban doing laundry.

 

[jasonc]

If doing laundry is gonna kill the planet - we should ban doing laundry.

I have a septic tank its is hard on it. it kills the bacteria that is needed to brake down the stuff. nothing better then having to clean on your on poop in a large tank in the front of your home. while I paid a company to do that you get the idea.

 

[Willie T]

My wife and I found a way to buy almost brand new appliances for about a quarter of the price. We just purchased a glass top range (normally around $800) for $179. It's the only way to go.

We got our washer and dryer the same way.

 

[jasonc]

My wife and I found a way to buy almost brand new appliances for about a quarter of the price. We just purchased a glass top range (normally around $800) for $179. It's the only way to go.

We got our washer and dryer the same way.

scratch and dent world?

 

[Willie T]

Nope, periodic timeshare renovation liquidations. People on vacation hardly even use the appliances. The refrigerator is about the only thing that gets a lot of use. And, the higher class timeshares swap out their appliances every two or three years.

 

[Deborah13]

Nope, periodic timeshare renovation liquidations. People on vacation hardly even use the appliances. The refrigerator is about the only thing that gets a lot of use. And, the higher class timeshares swap out their appliances every two or three years.

It the same way at the ski resorts. New condo owner, new everything, even carpet sometimes. I got 3 yr old high quality carpet for a friend's home for free when I worked for the company who did the remodeling of a condo. All the appliances were changed out too.
Oh and for me a huge, stuffed, PLUM colored chair that I never could have afforded to buy.

 

[Deborah13]

Doing laundry makes me smile. I guess it's partly because I was going to laundry mats for five months, after I moved here. I hated to do it, but last month I broke down and spent $989 on a stackable apartment-style laundry combo.

I was putting only about $6.50 a week into laundry mats - we are looking at four years to pay back the money I spent at that rate. And, well, now having it here in the home, I am doing more laundry - I have "car laundry" to do, which is about one load a week - but still, it will be over three years to "pay back" the $989 I took from savings for these machines.

But it sure is nice to be able to sit here and get laundry done without the hassle of packing up and heading across town to a laundry mat. Yea, there is a load in the dryer right now.....

I know how you feel. For years I never had a washer and finally got a nice used one. When I moved to CO from CT I sold everything except the kids bunk beds and the Washer. I wasn't letting go of that baby.

 

[Willie T]

It the same way at the ski resorts. New condo owner, new everything, even carpet sometimes. I got 3 yr old high quality carpet for a friend's home for free when I worked for the company who did the remodeling of a condo. All the appliances were changed out too.
Oh and for me a huge, stuffed, PLUM colored chair that I never could have afforded to buy.

Yep, I recarpeted our entire house for free when we sold out all the homes in a sub-division, and finally put the model up for sale.

 

[ReginaForbes]

You're lucky. I have to go downstairs, outside, around my tennant's car and then back into the basement entrance to do laundry. Stan helps sometimes by carrying the heavy stuff, but I don't like having to go outside.

 

[hallowbonnie]

I used to love going to the laundromat at the apartments my ex and I first lived in lol.I remember the laundry room being directly behind our particular apartment building.Laundry day was fun for me I only did 3 loads per week and that included the sheets.There was this awesome pizza place behind our apartments as well so I would get an order of breadsticks and whatever was left of my rum and have a ball.In between switching out clothes Id run home and see what judge show was on at the time cuz we only had 3 channels and we mostly got the judge shows so that was always fun to see if I could make it home in time to see the final verdict.