No, dear, it is the spin cycle on the washer you want to be "utilizing". ;)

Yikes, the center post on those drums is kinda large, isn't it? :eek: ;)

A lot of the problems you guys mention have to do with visiting laundromats. I've never had to do that - just the apartment laundry room with six washer and six dryers. I can do things at home while stuff washes and do it whenever I want, and it's pretty rare that I deal with other people's weirdness (this is silent Irvine, after all).

Still, I see the point - much less shlepping, doing small loads each week. I'll take it. :)

Oh, and I always hang up my laundry immediately. I hate wrinkles. If an article of clothing needs ironing, I never wear it. I do let the socks and underwear lay around for a few days before matching up the socks and putting them away.

When my best friend bought a condo without washer/dryer hookups, I thought she was crazy. She reasoned that it was ok because there's a laundry room on every floor and it's just around the corner from her condo. Hate to say it, but I've been right...something that someone on her floor uses in the washer has ruined quite a few loads of laundry for her. Last I heard she was going to take it to the HOA, dunno what's happened since then.

I've been really lucky in that even when I was in college, we had our own washer dryer. The only thing that sucked about that is somehow we were all on the same laundry schedule....we'd all end up in the laundry room within minutes of each other...with whoever got there first totally gloating.

Give me my own W/D any day.

I "kinda" miss having to use the apartment laundry room! There is something to be said for getting all your laundry done..in under 2 hours! Of course I don't miss having to haul it back and forth...and having to get quarters...and then there's dragging around the laundry products...soap, Biz, fabric softener...

But I wouldn't trade "hot towels" for anything...Sometimes when it's cold, I'll throw a towel in the dryer for Kat while she's in the bath....she loves it!

And I adore fresh from the dryer sheets! Ahhhh....Downy goodness!

I love going home to my parent's to do laundry. I watch tv, hang out with them, go on walks. Etc. Plus, the laundry is cleaner and more fresh smelling than when I do it using the apartment's machines.

I almost miss the Laundromat experience, though. I miss realizing that I'm wearing some stranger's panties halfway through my day. I remember turning to my rommmate in NYC, "You know, I don't think these are my panties. These must be your panties."

"Those aren't my panties."

"Fvck! Whose panties am I wearing!?"

Ah, Laundromats.

So now I singing a combo of The Cramps:

"What color panties are you wearing? What color panties are you wearing? And how long have you been wearing them?"

and Black Randy and the Metro Squad:

"Down at the Laundromat. That's where I'm at."

Maybe I should head on over to the Esoteric Geek thread. :rolleyes:

Jesse, Chris, Fej.......surely you know what I'm talking about.

I do NOT miss having my laundry stolen from apartment laundry rooms!

(we lived in a rather not so nice neighboorhood when John was still in college...he was the weekend maintenance guy..so rent was free!)

I left my laundry in the WASHER and went back upstairs...returned about 15 minutes later...clothes are GONE! Everything...jeans, towels, undies...

Who steals someones laundry? I can see maybe a shirt or the towels maybe...but my underwear....and while they were dripping wet from the washer....

I figured if they were THAT desperate for clothes...they could have em!

Only when I accidentally leave a pair in the machine ;) I live in a garage apartment and share the washer & dryer with the people in the house up front. Not the ideal situation, but at least I don't have to drag all my delicates to the Fluff 'n Fold.

I don't hear the machines going right now. I should take this opportunity to get a few loads done while it is open. The last couple did laundry like EVERY day. The lady would work out and wash one shirt, a pair of socks and shorts. That was the whole load. I could never get my stuff done. The current couple is more normal about things and we rarely have a scheduling conflict. Except for the time she took my stuff out of the washer to get their wash done before she left on a trip. Yes, removed the wet clothes and left them sitting in the garage. She didn't need it for her trip, she told me she just didn't want her husband to have worry about it while she was gone. What a wench!