Laundry room etiquette

Diggity Dawg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:13 am

I give 'em 10-15 minutes to move their stuff. After that, fuck it - it's getting slopped up on the rickety-ass card table in the laundry room.

We've got some real assholes in our building. I've literally seen wet laundry sit in a washing machine for HOURS.

Natural Mike · **Posted:** Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:36 am

At my old apartment, the upstairs neighbors would leave clothes in the washer until they were dry.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:05 am

Elvis Fu Wrote:

This guy has crack Wrote:

it's probably pretty awkward to get busted taking someone's shit out of their dryer.

It's more awkward when you are sifting through a girl's stuff to scope out/sniff her panties.

You take the clothes out, but leave them in your now-empty basket

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:55 am

As my professor says in every class, "too bad... so sad."

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

i've been doing laundry today and went downstairs about a half-hour ago to find no laundry. my dryer was empty. half of my regular non-work clothing was in there. so i am absolutely seething. like, what is someone going to do with my clothing?! and i have these visions of marla singer. then five minutes ago, i went downstairs again and my laundry is folded on the table.

so, here's what i think: somebody added their laundry to my dryer and took everything when it was done, then brought mine back after folding it. so bizarre.

blacklakebeauty · **Joined:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:50 pm **Posts:** 348

You probably don't know it but you Just Made My Day!

My neighbors are totally pissing me off today but they're on the other side of a fence and I don't have to share anything but air with them!

Sometimes I forget that this is what makes that mortgage so worthwhile.

Not that I'm minimizing how much you must want to KILL the bastard. :twisted:

Promethium · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:49 pm

I don't really have any laundry problems anymore, but the people who live in the duplex next door are exceedingly loud and have quite a few domestic disturbances. They are the people who turn on their car stereos while they are sitting on their porch, so they can jam out to bass heavy rap music.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

Promethium Wrote:

I have a question about laundry room etiquette in apartments. I started doing my laundry an hour ago and at that time someone had their clothes in the only good dryer we have. After I started my second load of wash I decided to remove the clothes from that dryer after the owner of those clothes failed to come get them and/or put more quarters in the machine.
A few minutes ago I went back into the laundry room to check the machine and found some guy sitting on one of the washers watching the dryer I had been using. He had removed my clothes, which I assume had not completely went through their cycle and most likely put his clothes back in the machine.

I was wondering how long you give a person to remove their clothes or put more money in the machine before you take a machine. My apartment is right next to the laundry room, so it is easy for me to do laundry, but alot of people in our building allow their clothes to sit in a machine for several hours. We only have three washers and three dryers, and a few of them often break down or have glitches, so it kind of sucks when somebody forgets about their clothes

that's asking for a beat down.

Promethium · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:02 pm

BTW, I am moving out of this place in a week and we will have our own machines in the new one.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

congrats!

gauchebag · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:09 pm

this is not something that people think about in college. this might as well be an oxymoron if you live in a dorm...my freshman year if you left your laundry basket in the laundry room unattended it probably got pissed or shat in. there were many a sorority girl's prissy pink basket replete with ribbons and bows and "I LOVE KAPPA!!!!!!" written in pink found with a nice layer of fresh (or not so fresh) urine in it.

puma · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:09 pm

i resolved this problem by doing laundry at my friends' house who have their own washer/dryers.

at my last apt, there was only one washer/dryer between 8 apts - it was a pain in the ass. i usually give them about 1/2 hr then i'll remove their clothes from the dryer and fold them. if they're in the washer, i'll just throw in the dryer. i put off doing laundry until the last minute so usually i have about 4-5 loads to do each time.

in my short-lived time at the dorms in college, i would just bring laundry home since home was about a 45-minute drive but my grandma got pissed at me that i would only come home to do laundry. hehe. but man, college kids are the worse when it comes to the laundry situation! i've had clothes stolen plenty of times.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

i have 1 w/d for 16 units! god, living in la sucks sometimes.

puma · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:18 pm

Saint Wrote:

i have 1 w/d for 16 units! god, living in la sucks sometimes.

are you friken serious? that would drive me absolutely INSANE.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:29 pm

My neighbor who wrote us the note about using her dryer came up to our apartment last week and SCREAMED at my girlfriend "Have any idea why my dryer is hot?! I'm calling the landlord!"

It turns out that both of our dryers are hooked up to the same ventilation pipe, so when we run ours, it heats hers up and vice versa. She is just too stupid to notice. I explained what was happening to the landlord, a few days later he showed her in person and the bitch apologized profusely.

What kind of logic is that anyway? Did we just go out and buy a brand new washer and dryer as decoys so we could use hers?

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:02 pm

It's been hard moving from my house to an apartment....mainly due to laundry. On sunday i went to laundry room to find the two washers available. I did my loads and went to check the dryers. Three empty dryers. Throw my clothes in two of the three free dryers and proceed to set the timer for 48 minutes. I set my alarm and head back with 2 minutes to go. I get in there and notice that both of my dryer doors are open. My darks are dry but still had a minute to go. My light colors were soaking wet. The two washers were going and the other free dryer was still available. What the hell was that about? Thought they decide to check out my clothes and waste the $1 i spent trying to dry it? I don't think i'll ever live in a place that doesn't have laundry hook-ups in the apartment if i ever live in an apartment again.

quantumlust · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:10 am

My solution, which allows me to be impatient as well as not an asshole:

Take the person's stuff out as soon as it's done. As long as-

#1- It's dry. If it's not, pay the 75 freaking cents for your time. (in college, people used to leave a few quarters on top of the washer and disappear all evening. if you want to use the washer after their cycle, just put their stuff in the dryer for them with said quarters.)

and, most importantly-
#2- FOLD THEIR SHIT FOR THEM.
Dumping stuff in a basket is never acceptable. Maybe if it's just towels, or something, but never clothes.

Also, if the load contains underwear, you may not want to mess with it. People get all weird about you touching their undies.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:46 am

quantumlust Wrote:

My solution, which allows me to be impatient as well as not an asshole:

Take the person's stuff out as soon as it's done. As long as-

#1- It's dry. If it's not, pay the 75 freaking cents for your time. (in college, people used to leave a few quarters on top of the washer and disappear all evening. if you want to use the washer after their cycle, just put their stuff in the dryer for them with said quarters.)

and, most importantly-
#2- FOLD THEIR SHIT FOR THEM.
Dumping stuff in a basket is never acceptable. Maybe if it's just towels, or something, but never clothes.

Also, if the load contains underwear, you may not want to mess with it. People get all weird about you touching their undies.

this is entirely too reasonable. just piss on their stuff and call it a night.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:49 am

This is always one of my fears about doing laundry. People taking yr crap out, or worse yet stealing it. In college I was pretty vigilant about my timings and made sure I was up to my washer and dryers at least 5 minutes ahead of my due time. When someone took my stuff out because they deemed it dry enough, I'd usually retaliate by putting lint from all the dryers/garbage in the dryer with their crap, which would get wound around their clothes leaving a pinkish/bluish mash on their khakis.

Luckily near me there is a bar/laundry. No lie. The bar has washers and dryers in a back room. I go, do my laundry, and throw back a gallon of beer.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:54 am

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

Luckily near me there is a bar/laundry. No lie. The bar has washers and dryers in a back room. I go, do my laundry, and throw back a gallon of beer.

That sounds awesome. However, I tried the beer/bottle of wine/laundry combo tonight, and I left my shit (albiet in my own personal w/d) in for over an hour and a half.

Sometimes people forget. I'm glad I don't have to deal with that anymore.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

laundromats in cities are evolving pretty well. there are plenty of places where there's laundry in the back and then either a bar or billiards in the front. there's even the sit & spin in seattle where they have shows. i think there was also sudsy malone's in cincinnati, but i'm not sure it's still around.

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