For the first time in my life...
...I paid people to do my laundry. There's a laundromat around the corner, and they do same-day wash / dry / fold. Easier than spending two hours in the laundromat, and, actually, not all that much more expensive. I was surprised. At school, at $1 to wash and $1 to dry, I'd use three machines (whites / colors / towels+sheets) and spend $6, plus cost of detergent, fabric softener, dryer sheets. For what I guess was a typical-sized load of laundry I'll have, I just paid $10.80. So maybe $4.00 more than it would have cost me to do it, and it took me two minutes to walk there and two minutes to walk back. This is not a terrible economic decision.
And it's really cool, because they folded my clothes a lot better than I fold my clothes, and they even bunched my socks into pairs. I usually just throw my socks into a drawer and hope each morning that I'll be able to somehow piece together a pair that sort of matches. Also, however they folded my t-shirts, a lot more fit in a drawer than when I do it. They folded very well. There's a part of me that feels bad paying for this, because I could easily go do my own laundry. But it's worth $4 to me not to have to do it. So I feel pleased with the purchase. I actually didn't know this service existed, which may mean I'm stupid. I mean, I guess I assumed it did, but I assumed it was more expensive than it is, as compared to doing my laundry myself. But I'd never been to a laundromat before -- at school there were machines in the basement wherever I lived (or, at Princeton, in the next building over sometimes -- that walk outside in the snow with laundry was fun), and at home we had a machine, and when I worked before law school there was a washer/dryer in my apartment. So this is all new to me. And pretty painless, for laundry.
Wow, two paragraphs on laundry. Something please happen to me so I can write about it.
Oh, I saw the movie Palindromes yesterday. It was really quite terrible. Don't see it if you have a choice.
...I paid people to do my laundry. There's a laundromat around the corner, and they do same-day wash / dry / fold. Easier than spending two hours in the laundromat, and, actually, not all that much more expensive. I was surprised. At school, at $1 to wash and $1 to dry, I'd use three machines (whites / colors / towels+sheets) and spend $6, plus cost of detergent, fabric softener, dryer sheets. For what I guess was a typical-sized load of laundry I'll have, I just paid $10.80. So maybe $4.00 more than it would have cost me to do it, and it took me two minutes to walk there and two minutes to walk back. This is not a terrible economic decision.
And it's really cool, because they folded my clothes a lot better than I fold my clothes, and they even bunched my socks into pairs. I usually just throw my socks into a drawer and hope each morning that I'll be able to somehow piece together a pair that sort of matches. Also, however they folded my t-shirts, a lot more fit in a drawer than when I do it. They folded very well. There's a part of me that feels bad paying for this, because I could easily go do my own laundry. But it's worth $4 to me not to have to do it. So I feel pleased with the purchase. I actually didn't know this service existed, which may mean I'm stupid. I mean, I guess I assumed it did, but I assumed it was more expensive than it is, as compared to doing my laundry myself. But I'd never been to a laundromat before -- at school there were machines in the basement wherever I lived (or, at Princeton, in the next building over sometimes -- that walk outside in the snow with laundry was fun), and at home we had a machine, and when I worked before law school there was a washer/dryer in my apartment. So this is all new to me. And pretty painless, for laundry.
Wow, two paragraphs on laundry. Something please happen to me so I can write about it.
Oh, I saw the movie Palindromes yesterday. It was really quite terrible. Don't see it if you have a choice.
posted by Anonymous @ 6:53 PM
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