Who does your laundry?
I'm curious. Other than my mother washing my clothes, no one else ever has in this country. When you drop off your clothes to be washed, do you include your undergarments as well? Is there a protocol in what you pay to be washed?
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Per Trumystic above:
And no I dont let anyone but me wash the unmentionables
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So, is the protocol that you wash your unmentionables yourself? I'm curious: Why can't you wash your own clothes?? You don't have the time? You don't want to interact with other people in the laundromat? Those of us who wash our own clothes prejudge the 'dropoff-ers'. The common question we ask each other is, 'Now why can't he/she was their own clothes?'
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I wash my own clothes. But my washer and dryer sit yards away from where I work all day. So washing and drying are hardly an inconvenience.
Back in the day, when I had to haul my clothes to a laundromat, and wait for hours to get and use the machines there, I would have been very happy to have someone else do the labor so as to free my time up for other things.
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What next Booklaw, paying someone to brush your teeth, wipe your bottom, and comb your hair?
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Tempting... I'll get back to you!
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I think that people who have to pay someone to take care of them are bored. Seriously. I really do. I have never understood that you would pay someone to do your laundry. I mean, the machine is doing all the work! All you have to do is be there to put it in, and take it out! I've never understood women who get their nails done either. You mean you can't cut your own toe nails??! What's that about? Unless you are infirm, it just doesn't make sense to me.
But getting your laundry 'done', getting your nails 'done', getting your car 'washed' -- as opposed to washing it yourself. All of these tasks disconnect us from ourselves. I really do believe there will be a day that people will go to places to defecate and pay someone wipe their ass for them. This will be known as getting your ass 'wiped'.
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Mod Note: Stay on topic
The OP Trumystic is looking for advice, not criticism, MHA. If we reply to all new users with this amount of disdain then no one will want to use this message board. Play nice or leave...
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You know, you are right. My apologies.
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actually some interesting points - might be better split off as a lounge thread though.
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... And booklaw has split the thread!
Re: the point about boredom - I don't know if bored people solicit these services so much as use of these services leads to boredom. Boredom is after all a bourgeois concept that stems directly from our outsourcing of labor, introduction of the concept of a "weekend" as a dedicated time for leisure activities, etc.
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I do my laundry. My husband does his laundry. Sometimes we go to the laundromat together but usually we don’t. I do laundry much less frequently than him due to the dress codes at our works (I wear the same clothes at work as I do after work while he has suits/dress shirts during work and then jeans/tshirts after work. That's twice as much clothes.
My parents very much instilled a few things in me:
1. If you can't afford it, don’t buy it. From jeans to a car, if you can't pay cash for it now and still have 3-6 months of expenses in savings, you should not buy it. A car payment is unheard of in my family.
2. If you can do it yourself- do it yourself. I am capable of cleaning my bathroom, washing my clothes, changing the oil in my car, etc. So I would neveer pay someone to do it. Inversely, I cannot cut my own hair without ending up with a buzz cut, so I pay a pro.
Not only do I find it weird to have someone touching your dirty clothes and weird to be paying for it, but I KNOW so mething would get messed up. I know which shirts get line dried or low tumble. I know what type of detergent I like, etc. I just flat out wouldn't trust someone regardless of price.
Sometimes we pay for convenience ... I get pizza delivered sometimes even though my legs aren't broken. But I don't have the additional fear of them messing up the carrying of my pizza as well.
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Also, MHA, in regards to mom doing laundry, when we turned 9 we had to do our own laundry at home. My brother was a smelly 5th grader because of this rule. Ha.
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I will chime in since its my post that brought on MHA's query.
I use a drop off service for most of my laundry. I wash my own underwear, sweaters and other delicate clothes items ( by hand or I take them to the laundromat and line dry at home).
I am perfectly capable of washing my own clothes and have done so since I was about 11 years old. When I lived in apartment buildings that had a washer/dryer I also did my own laundry.
I first began using laundry services when I was working 60-70 hrs a week and was traveling for work on weekends. The thought of using my single day off to drag myself and heaps of clothes to spend hours in the laundromat (listening to bad TV and fighting for a machine) was not attractive to me.
Even when I started working a job with more reasonable hours I continued to use drop off services. WHY??? I value my timeoff so I was willing to pay someone else for a service that I value. It's as simple as that.
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The thread doesn't seem "split" but more that no matter which I click on it takes me to the same conversation... my post (which was after the "split") shows up both in the Lounge and on Crown Heights.
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Xlizellx, I am mystified by your comment. This thread no longer exists on the CH/PLG board, as far as I can see. On that board we should have only Trumystic's original thread, entitled "Good Drop Off Laundry With Pick Up and Delivery Service", which my browser shows to have only a couple of replies. Perhaps you might try cleaning your browser's memory cache and then accessing the site again?
(other suggestions also welcome!)
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hmmm....yeah, for me it shows up as "Good Drop off..." but then has all of the replies. Will do what you suggest.
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So, can I use this thread to kvetch about laundry, or no?
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This thread, I.e. the Lounge thread, yes, of course... That's why it's here.
Kvetch away!
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I love Dropoff laundry. I love the fact that everybody does it, because it feels like one of those things that's a luxury. But it's actually affordable and a huge time saver.
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And what of the old cliche' of meeting girls at the laundromat? What is to become of that if all the broads are dropping off their drawers and having someone else wash them? I actually stopped dating a girl because she didn't wash her own panties; true story.
No time to wash your own clothes? WTF?No, something else is afoot. I don't have a full deck, but there are still enough cards to throw in the derby. Flick- bullseye; flick-bullseye. Bullseye!
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my parents used to take a bottle of wine and go to the laundromat as a great date every week. they still talk about it being great --- they now have a washer/dryer in their house.
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Back to the boredom point raised by Daily Heights. There used to be a time when having long nails meant that you were so rich your fingernails were never damaged because of having other people do your work for you. In other words, it was a form of self-aggrandizement -- or narcissism. Also being pale was a sign of being so rich that the sun never kissed your face or any other part of you because you had others picking your fruits and veggies in the field. So your hands were never callused, your fingernails never broken, and your skin never darkened by the sun. Concomitantly, you had other motherfuckers to wash your clothes, cook your food and take care of you. Someone walked your dog, someone cooked your food, and someone washed your clothes. Despite the rationalizations about not having time to wash one's clothes, I can't help but scoff at that. The time it took to log on to the Brooklynian, whomever thinks that could've put in two loads already. There is an other reason afoot....
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For some, that reason is "Opportunity Cost"
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I'm sure wet nurses were viewed this way as well...
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...with the advent of formula, we now find ourselves in the position of trying convince people that "Breast is Best".
It is a crazy world.
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My mom does my laundry...
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