Stimulus

Quote: AZDuffman

Reminds me of when I thought of buying 365 pair of underwear and just doing laundry on NYE to be set for the year. You must have a ton of clothes.

I used to do some travel with a big time national attorney. He was dumbfounded when he realized he was paying four dollars to have his underwear washed at hotels and then his wife told him his boxer shorts were only $2 a pair to buy.

Quote: DRich

You must not have pets. We have two dogs and a cat and they all sleep in bed with us. The comforter gets covered in fur. We probably wash ours every other week.

No pets. I wash sheets weekly but comforters when you wash them you wear them out. It is on top of me so no big issues of sweating into it. I can see pets making it a mess.

Quote: Mission146

Maybe you're still mentally in the 1960's where owning a washer/dryer was a status symbol, or something.

So you're implying going to a
laundromat with a bunch of
obviously less than wealthy
people is the new status symbol?
Do you even read what you write?
You probably chain smoke Marlboro's
the whole time you're there. lol

Quote: AZDuffman

No pets. I wash sheets weekly but comforters when you wash them you wear them out.

Truth. In fact, the number one reason
clothes wear out is over washing. Want
them to last, wash them less often.

I still can't believe somebody has a
washer and drier and and says nope,
I'm heading to the laundromat for the
ambiance and good company of my
fellow travelers. And because I just
can't figure out how to do one load
at a time at home.

Quote: Evenbob

So you're implying going to a
laundromat with a bunch of
obviously less than wealthy
people is the new status symbol?
Do you even read what you write?
You probably chain smoke Marlboro's
the whole time you're there. lol

No, it's not a status symbol. I already said that it's faster, and therefore more convenient, for me, and I can get the comforter in the washer. I like to wash the comforter once a week and am not one to think twice a year is sufficient...it's something you sleep under, not cleaning the gutters.

I write just fine, do you even read what I write? Nothing about my post implies going to the laundromat is a status symbol. My post just says that owning a washer and dryer is not a status symbol because the only people who don't generally live in low-end apartment buildings or trailers. Hell, even some trailers have them, I think.

Quote: Evenbob

Truth. In fact, the number one reason
clothes wear out is over washing. Want
them to last, wash them less often.

I still can't believe somebody has a
washer and drier and and says nope,
I'm heading to the laundromat for the
ambiance and good company of my
fellow travelers. And because I just
can't figure out how to do one load
at a time at home.

Or, you can just buy new clothes when they wear out so you don't have to smell nasty. I'm pretty cheap when it comes to clothes and don't care about style/fashion, so my clothes wearing out is not high on my list of concerns. I'm pretty picky about bedclothes, though. I also like my bedclothes to be clean and smell nice. I don't understand why you guys would want to lay down for the night and smell everything you've done and everywhere you've been for the last six months.

Also, you don't even necessarily need quarters anymore.

There's an app (I haven't tried it) upon which you can load money and then you just scan your phone at the machines.

Quote: Evenbob

Truth. In fact, the number one reason
clothes wear out is over washing. Want
them to last, wash them less often.

I still can't believe somebody has a
washer and drier and and says nope,
I'm heading to the laundromat for the
ambiance and good company of my
fellow travelers. And because I just
can't figure out how to do one load
at a time at home.

Very true. Underwear and socks of course wash every wearing. Jeans? Can wear them several days, even all week. Shirts? Unless you sweat them up 2-3 times. With the china virus lockdown I rarely need more than 1 load lately. 20+ years ago when I apartment lived we had laundry onsite even that I hated. Frozen tundra of Albany and I had to go across the way to drop the load in. After you hoped there was an open machine. It was a goal of getting a house to not have to deal with that.

It amazes me how people buy a condo but still need to go thru that.

Wizard said something about turning his underwear inside out.

I'm sure he was kidding.

Maybe.

Well, you never knew about the nerdy guys. You think Bill Gates went without laundering. They went days and nights developing computer programs.

Quote: Mission146

No, it's not a status symbol. I already said that it's faster,.

Translation: Other people have been doing
my laundry all my life and now that
I have to do it I hate it. So I let it pile
up and up and finally just drag it
to a place where I can do it all at
once. Typical ex married guy, spoiled
by the mommy's in his life.