Laundromat closed

jujube said:
we've spent 4-5 months in our camper in the summer. We don't have a washer/dryer in the rig
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We are in the same boat.... accept we've been in ours 2 1/2 years now... Have a set but no place to hook up... YET
Had set the washer outside and did a few loads, but wife said its just easier to go do it...
Now that place is closed, twice as far, and twice as much....
 

old medic said:
We are in the same boat.... accept we've been in ours 2 1/2 years now... Have a set but no place to hook up... YET
Had set the washer outside and did a few loads, but wife said its just easier to go do it...
Now that place is closed, twice as far, and twice as much....
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Is your camper set up permanently somewhere? Why can't you hook up your W/D? Do you have water, power and ability to dump at your site?
 
StarSong said:
Is your camper set up permanently somewhere? Why can't you hook up your W/D? Do you have water, power and ability to dump at your site?
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We could put a small washer in the closet hook ups in the camper... But wife said no...
We own this place, have house, well and septic. My brother has lived in the house over 15 years.
Initially was going to build a Bath house, But managed to buy the abandoned house next door and doing a major remodel on it.
Just got temporary power turned on, and hoping to get the well pump installed next week... set the washer up in the garage.
At that point will move the camper next door, and keep digging....
 
AnnieA said:
Same here. You'd break even money wise soon considering the cost of laundromats.
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I spend less than $20 a year on laundry. At my age, I'd pass on before I broke even having a new washing machine installed. Living alone and not going out much, I only get enough to do a load about every six weeks. It's $2 to do a load at the nearest laundromat. You do the math.

Plus I don't have the added cost of water and electricity, and I don't have to worry about maintenance. The only issue I have with a laundromat is that you don't know who's scrofulous underwear was washed in the load just before.
 
debodun said:
I spend less than $20 a year on laundry. At my age, I'd pass on before I broke even having a new washing machine installed. Living alone and not going out much, I only get enough to do a load about every six weeks. It's $2 to do a load at the nearest laundromat. You do the math.

Plus I don't have the added cost of water and electricity, and I don't have to worry about maintenance. The only issue I have with a laundromat is that you don't know who's scrofulous underwear was washed in the load just before.
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One load every six weeks? Seriously?
 
I do a lot of hand washing in the sink. You rinse and then pull out the plug and let them drain an hour or more. Then, I press out as much as I can with balled fists and lay things out on layers of bath towels (one below, one on top) and pat the pile ... The clothes then get hung on hangers and the towels get draped wherever I have room (tub, shower door, over chairs, etc.) This method counts as "exercise" and saves a ton off my water bills!
 
StarSong said:
One load every six weeks? Seriously?
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I couldn't do it either! šŸ˜² I do a minimum of two loads a week just for me. Vastly different hygiene standards!

Medium washers are $6.00 per load here, all dryers are $1.50 so it would make sense financially here to own. And laundromats are yucky even without the CCP Virus. I just bought a Panda electric spinner a couple of months ago for when I'm out of town working and staying in a camper so I won't have to use the laundromat anymore. Am washing in a 5 gallon bucket set in the bathtub and agitating with a laundry plunger. Next I spin the clothes. The Panda spinner runs for 5 minutes and clothes are barely damp coming out. If washing machines spun clothes as effectively, we wouldn't need to run dryers but for 20 minutes or so a load.
 
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debodun said:
I spend less than $20 a year on laundry. At my age, I'd pass on before I broke even having a new washing machine installed. Living alone and not going out much, I only get enough to do a load about every six weeks. It's $2 to do a load at the nearest laundromat. You do the math.

Plus I don't have the added cost of water and electricity, and I don't have to worry about maintenance. The only issue I have with a laundromat is that you don't know who's scrofulous underwear was washed in the load just before.
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There are other "issues" with public Laundromats that I witnessed, but won't mention.....
 
When I lived in Turkey, I had a maid who came one day a week. I paid her $2 and two eggs. Yep, really, two eggs and all my empty cans (which I opened from the bottom, so that she could set them in her kitchen and make her friends envious, thinking that she had all those American canned goods).

Anyway, she washed our clothes in the bathtub, wrung them out and hung them out on the balcony. Got them very clean, too.

One day, I bought an old Maytag wringer washer from another American and had it brought home. When she came on Tuesday, I led her down the hall with her eyes closed. She took one look and burst into tears. You'd think I had shown her the Spoonmaker Diamond, or something. She'd sing to the washer.
 
AnnieA said:
No panties? Should have 42 for six weeks.
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I don't wear panties. I wear a nightgown that serves as underwear. I have a sensitivity to elastic. As for bras, in the winter I can get away without one when I go out - a bulky coat disguises this. In warmer weather, when I have to go out, I wear one over my nightgown so the elastic parts don't contact my skin.
 

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