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I was talking with a church on Sunday. She was saying that 3 of the schools her daughter is considering have a laundry service for $200 a semester where you put all your dirty clothes in a bag, they pick it up and 48 hours later they are returned to you clean and folded. My first thought was what a waste! But then I got to wondering how expensive it is these days to do laundry on campus. For me, back in the dark ages, it was 25 cents a washer and usually 50-75 for the dryer. So a dollar per load. 2-3 loads a week. What's a semester, 15 weeks? But even at 20 weeks, that's only $60.

 

So $10 per week for laundry? Is laundry now $1.25 per cycle? So 8 cycles. Maybe it is worth it.

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I think it's pretty expensive now. When we checked into it for DD, it was about 5 dollars per load. The dorm laundry facilities were a money maker for the school. Of course, it's not that much cheaper around here to use the laundromat. $2.00 for a small load, $3.00 for a medium load, and $4.00 for the ones that handle blankets and what not and that's just to wash. Drying is a quarter for 10 minutes and most people I've talked to say it is at least $1.00 to dry. I know a lot of people who do not have a washer and dryer in their apartment building, who own three drying racks and do not pay for drying. They also, due to costs, have to wash items together that most women would not want to put into the same load if it could possibly be helped. As they put it, "Never own a color of towel that will bleed because towels and school clothes, including t-shirts and nice shirts all have to be washed together."

 

The thing that made money when I was in college was ironing. NO ONE wanted to iron their nice clothes so some of the girls made a tidy profit off that.

 

Faith

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I had a friend who did this; it was cheaper than feeding coins into the dorm machines and was a time-saver because she was particular about how her clothes looked. Use of the washers and dryers is included in ds' room and board so he does his own. His wardrobe is suitable for typical guy notions of doing laundry.

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When we were in the apartment last summer laundry was 1.25 to wash and 1.25 to dry. It might be worth it depending on how many loads they allow.

 

 

And how long the drier would take to dry the clothes. Back when I used a laundromat, it took at least three spins to dry all my clothes (was my dh and I).

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I was talking with a church on Sunday. She was saying that 3 of the schools her daughter is considering have a laundry service for $200 a semester where you put all your dirty clothes in a bag, they pick it up and 48 hours later they are returned to you clean and folded. My first thought was what a waste! But then I got to wondering how expensive it is these days to do laundry on campus. For me, back in the dark ages, it was 25 cents a washer and usually 50-75 for the dryer. So a dollar per load. 2-3 loads a week. What's a semester, 15 weeks? But even at 20 weeks, that's only $60.

 

So $10 per week for laundry? Is laundry now $1.25 per cycle? So 8 cycles. Maybe it is worth it.

 

LOL - Are you sure about the number of loads per week? I did more like one load every two weeks. At 1.25 to wash and 1.25 (or twice that) to dry, over a 16 week semester that comes out to be $10 wash and $10 or $20 to dry for me or at two loads every two weeks (which is about what my sons did what with all their sports) that would come out to be about $60/semester.

 

Nan

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And don't forget the social aspect - my college freshman son says the dorm's laundry room is "the" place to meet girls!

 

Myra

 

Ah. The first one I have going would be a daughter. For her meeting girls isn't the thing. :-) But meeting boys who are clueless about laundry...

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LOL - Are you sure about the number of loads per week? I did more like one load every two weeks. At 1.25 to wash and 1.25 (or twice that) to dry, over a 16 week semester that comes out to be $10 wash and $10 or $20 to dry for me or at two loads every two weeks (which is about what my sons did what with all their sports) that would come out to be about $60/semester.

 

Nan

 

 

For me back in the day - yes. A load of whites, a load of darks and a load sheets and towels.

 

The $10 per week is based on 20 weeks per semester for the $200 fee friend found. That works out to 8 cycles of laundry. So if you get it dry in one cycle, that's 4 loads. But as many have suggested, it takes 2 or 3 cycles to dry so then it's down to 2 loads per week.

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Back when I used a laundromat, it took at least three spins to dry all my clothes (was my dh and I).

 

The laundromat around here has washers that cannot be set for more than one spin cycle, so the dryers took forever (>1 hour).

 

Last fall, I spent about $20 per week at the laundromat for a family of four (washing only - my dryer still worked)

 

Does the laundry service include dry-cleaning? That might make it worthwhile, depending on the kid's wardrobe.

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LOL - Are you sure about the number of loads per week? I did more like one load every two weeks. At 1.25 to wash and 1.25 (or twice that) to dry, over a 16 week semester that comes out to be $10 wash and $10 or $20 to dry for me or at two loads every two weeks (which is about what my sons did what with all their sports) that would come out to be about $60/semester.

 

Nan

 

 

My eldest does laundry once every 3 weeks (that's how many pairs of underwear & socks she's amassed), but does more than one load at that point; I wash her bedding, so that will change when she goes to college. I did laundry every weekin college and, since my mother did this, i washed my sheets with my clothes every week. I also separated whites from colours.

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My son does not pay to use washers and dryers at his LAC. This and free printing seem to be small perks of some of the private colleges.

 

 

This is true for my daughter as well. I figure we're paying for the laundry just not quarter by quarter (rather by the semester!).

 

Regards,

Kareni

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College laundry goes like this according to dd:

 

college laundry habits

 

My dd has been half way through this for several years. I started teaching her to fold her own laundry when she was 3, and one of the first places she rebelled as a teen was folding laundry and using drawers for most of it. I finally bought plastic shelves for her closet where she lays all of her clean clothes. They do have a place on the roommate form for being messy or neat, and she's going to put messy for sure.

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Hmm ... my son tells me he pays about $4 a load to do laundry (wash and dry.) He does about a load a week. At 15 weeks per semester, that comes to about $120, plus about $20 in supplies (homemade detergent, plus stain treatment.) Probably less since when he comes home on breaks, he takes laundry home to do for free. I'd say he would find it cheaper to do his own.

 

Wlhen we went shopping to outfit him for school, we deliberately avoided whites as much as possible so that he would only have to sort his laundry into darks and not-so-darks. He does have white socks, but doesn't really care if they are all that white:).

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