<p>this may sound strange considering I own a house but does anyone know how much it costs to do laundry at a laundromat these days? </p>
<p>Due to the fact that I’ve been ridiculously sick for the past two or three weeks (I managed to catch three separate illnesses back to back to back…ugh) i have a giant build up of house work that has simply not been done. I’ve had little to no energy and have missed a couple of days of work being sick in bed. I have tomorrow off from work… I have a “date” with some female coworkers at 11 (lunch & mani pedi’s… we take one day each year to sit back, chat, and unwind! we call it our mental health day. ) and a friend coming over to do my hair around 5 (yay). I’m also having some friends who are in town visiting over around 7 and they are spending the night so my house needs to be pretty much presentable by 5. </p>
<p>Doesn’t leave much of a window for cleaning as I’ll probably be out at lunch till about 2. Dishes are piled up a mile high, tons of trash and recycling need to go out, and I must have at least four or five loads of laundry that need to be done. I was thinking I might take it to a coin laundry place and just pay to do it all at once. I hate the idea of paying to do it but I hate even more the idea of spending a majority of my day off on laundry so I think it will be worth it. I also have a comforter that I would like to wash and I know it won’t comfortably fit in my washer and I don’t want to ruin it. Do they have oversized equipment that it would fit in? I normally drop it off at my mothers house. ;)</p>
<p>fendergirl - actually the last time I used a laundromat was in Allentown a couple of years ago. Went to visit D1 right before finals (to see one of her concerts) and she had a HUGE pile in her room, so while she was in class one day, I took it all over to a laundromat off of Allen Street (I think). I must have done about six or seven loads at once and yes, they did have oversized machines. But I wanted to break it down by colors and delicates so I chose the smaller ones. Bring bills to pay, a book, etc. to keep you busy while things are washing or drying, but you’ll be surprised how much work it is when everything starts coming done about the same time and you’re switching loads, folding, adding more money to the dryer, etc.</p>
<p>One caveat, look inside each machine before you put anything in them, especially the dryers. You don’t want to end up with gum or something else on your clothes that was left in there by the previous user.</p>
<p>Yes, there are usually a few oversized washers perfect for comforters and the like.</p>
<p>Have a lot of one dollar bills so you can get the change you need from the machine- assuming they have one. It’s nice if you have a bunch of quarters so you don’t have to worry about change.
Wash load costs vary by area, some as much as 1.25 a load. The large washers for comforters are around $3 where I live. It just depends. Dryers are usually a quarter per 10 minutes. But really, it depends a lot on the neighborhood.</p>
<p>Are you sure your guests will care if all the laundry is done? If it’s towels, sheets and bedding, I understand, how it might be important.
If your time frame in the am is tight, get there when the doors open.
You don’t want to find that the big machines are already in use.</p>
<p>Teri, I know where that one is. I think there is one much closer to my house though. Good idea with the book. Fortunately I have all of my bills paid (or is that unfortunately???).</p>
<p>moon, honestly they probably won’t care if all my laundry is done but if you had the giant mound of clothing that I have sitting at your house you wouldn’t want your guests to see it either, haha! I’m not normally such a slob but I’ve been so under the weather it’s been awful. I just had the stomach flu for over a week and lost about ten pounds (I only had about 128lbs or so to start with, so 10 lbs is almost 10 percent of me). I guess that’s one way to diet! Words can not express how excited I am to go out for lunch with the girls tomorrow. That will be my first real “meal” since last Tuesday… Obviously I’ve eaten since then but I’ve been eating very bland things and for a few days there I couldn’t keep any of what I ate down at all. It’s so nice to be feeling like a human being again! That being said, watch me wake up with a sore throat or something. My BF and I are taking my friends out for dinner tomorrow night as well so I have two yummy meals to hopefully look forward to. </p>
<p>I guess I could just hide it in the basement and deal with it after they leave, but again it’s going to take me forever to get it all done this weekend so I really think it will just be easier to take it somewhere and get it done all at once.</p>
<p>If money is no object, I’m sure that you could go to a laundromat that will do your laundry for you. That way you could get more done at home while someone else is doing your laundry…</p>
<p>Where I am in CT, the extra large washer I use for a full size comforter costs $6.00!!! The change machine accepts up to ten dollar bills, maybe even twenty. I don’t use a laundromat all that often, but I always stay for the duration. I see other people coming and going, but I just bring a book.</p>
<p>Seconding ellemenope’s suggestion. I don’t think it costs much more to use the service where they do your laundry for you and I think there are some services that do pick up and drop off. It’s generally by the pound. If your time frame is that tight, just paying someone else to deal with it might be a good trade-off.</p>
<p>I’m thinking since I’m up nice and early I’m going to go find the closest laundromat this morning and see how much it costs. Then I think I’ll just take my clothes with me when I meet up with my friends for lunch and do them all on my way home. The comforter that I want to wash is mine - I probably should take my sheets too. I want to give everything a fresh start with being sick and germing them up. When I get back to work on Monday I plan on sanitizing my desk as well, haha!</p>
<p>I usually try to watch my money but today is going to be a rather expensive day. I’m already paying for a nice lunch, mani pedi’s, as well as highlights and a haircut. Thankfully my BF is paying for dinner. I guess this laundry won’t add too much to it! I just got my tax refund check though and figured I deserved to spend some of it on myself. I bought myself a wii also. :)</p>
<p>At the laundromat near where I live, single loads are $2, triple-load are $3 and quad-loads are $4. The single load machines are top-loaders while the others are front-loaders. There are lots of people that have machines at home that use the laundromat. Restaurants may use them to wash their stuff, parents of sports teams or others that have let things pile up.</p>
<p>In my old town, there were no “coin-op” laundromats. You had to buy a card and load it. It was annoying because the card itself cost $5, and if you lost it you had to buy another.</p>
<p>Sounds less annoying than the laundromat change machine being out of quarters when you arrive. The thing about change machines is that people go to laundromats to get quarters for parking meters, automated toll booths and other places where change is required and there is a cost to keeping their machines stocked that the business incurs.</p>
<p>I’m queen of losing cards. I lose my metro card every single time I’m in NYC. I dropped a brand new 20 dollar card on the streets somewhere once. :(</p>
<p>I packed it all up, it doesn’t seem as bad as I thought it would. Depending how big their things are I think I can do it in three loads for the clothes.</p>
<p>They had single, 2x, 3x, 4x, 8x load washers in varying prices and their machines took quarters or credit card. I just went in to price it but didn’t take any laundry with. I’m thinking I might just split up the loads and do it here this weekend and put it down stairs when my friends come over. My mom said I could bring my comforter down to her place this weekend and she would wash it for me since it fits in her washer.</p>
<p>Lunch date was good and it was nice to eat normal food again! I just found out that my friends aren’t getting in till like 9 tonight now. So I have hair at 5, still doing dinner with the BF at 7, and then my friends after that. What a full day!</p>
<p>No. But I wear a blouse to work almost everyday that needs to be washed and ironed. I’ve got a backlog now and am considering having them laundered. Any ideas on the best method?</p>
<p>If anyone’s interested, I had to use a laundromat recently when we had a power outage related to Hurricane Irene. I was surprised that the smallest size washer cost $2.50 for a load.</p>
<p>The laundromat had a change machine that would give quarters for a twenty dollar bill.</p>
<p>This was in a relatively low income area. I’ll swear that the last time I used that laundromat (sometime in the past couple of years), the washers didn’t cost over $1.25 or so for a load!</p>
) and a friend coming over to do my hair around 5 (yay). I’m also having some friends who are in town visiting over around 7 and they are spending the night so my house needs to be pretty much presentable by 5. </p>