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February 12th, 2007 at 12:45 am

Today was another laundry day. Fun, fun, fun.

Have you ever noticed that laundromats have an abundance of the large capacity washers ($2.25/load) that are almost never full, but the normal capacity washers ($1/load) are nearly impossible to find one, let alone two that are available? (Holy run on sentence - yikes!)

And is it just me, or is it a purposeful ploy to not have enough laundry carts for everyone to use?

Have you ever noticed (or maybe this is just in Texas) that the only station on the tv is some Spanish language station played at extreme volume. But of course the screen can't be seen by the majority of the people in the laundromat.

Why is it that parents feel comfortable letting their barely toddling children have free range throughout the laundromat where numerous strangers go in and out constantly?

And is it just me, or does the price of the dryer correlate directly to how clean or grossly unclean the bathroom is?

I'm thinking that I'm going to have to come up with a good reason to make another visit to my mom and stepdad's before my next laundry day.

Signed,

Throughly sick and tired of using laundromats and longing for the day of living somewhere with my very own washer and dryer again.

Posted in General, Frugal Single Life, Financial | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “Laundromats”

  1. cindilee Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 01:01 am 1171242087
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    My stores all have an attached laundry room. The large washing machines (wascomats) are the most used in our laundry! You can fit 3 regular loads in them. We also have no televisions in ours but if we did, no doubt there it would be on the spanish station as we are only two miles from Mexico!

  2. baselle Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 03:04 am 1171249466
    1171249466

    Used laundromats when I lived in Tucson - spanish language station too. And the magazines were hit and miss. My issues with dryers are that the clothes are either quite damp or cooked.

  3. fern Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 05:21 pm 1171300913
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    Ah, yes, i remember the good old days at the laundromat. So glad i don't hve to do that anymore.

  4. frugaltexan75 Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 07:16 pm 1171307764
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    Cindylee and D - It sounds like you two run laundromats I wouldn't mind making use of. Smile
    I don't really mind the Spanish station on the tv - I usually bring a book and tune out on whatever noise is around me.

    What really bugs me is the *few* times I have *had* to use the restroom in one of the laundromats, they invariably are out of toilet paper and handtowels, or someone has made a mess on the toilet seat or the floor. Which is what happened yesterday - the restroom was out of any paper products AND there was a nasty mess both on the toilet seat and the floor! Thankfully there was a gas station very nearby.

  5. cindilee Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 10:14 pm 1171318464
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    frugaltexan....no doubt the restrooms are hard to keep clean when the laundromat is very busy and we get our share of messes on the toilet seats and sometimes all over the walls as well.........makes you wonder about some humans...they act like animals or even worse! Thankfully we are staffed to check ours every 30 mins to an hour!

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