Laundry... unrealized savings..

[bloom2708]

I wash my pants and top shirts only when dirty/spilled on. Most loads for me are socks, underwear, undershirts and workout clothes. But I work in an office setting. Not high dirt.

My wife wears something and everything is washed every time. Even delicate sweaters. I asked one time and one time only why. :-)

[old medic]

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Originally Posted by firemediceric We have a SOG at my department that uniforms worn on duty WILL BE laundered at the station using the supplied washer & dryer with the supplied detergent.

Thats how it should be. We didn't have a washer until about a year before I retired. The only time contamination was an issue was if there was a gross amount of blood involved. That would go in a bio bag and sent out.

[Koolau]

For perhaps the first 14 years we were married, we didn't own a washer/dryer. We'd go to a laundromat. There was an old kinda run-down laundromat that we usually used and ca 1979 it was still 25 cents wash/10 cents dry. (They had one washer that was still 15 cents - I have no idea why it hadn't been updated to 25 cents - but most times I got that washer, along with some others.) We could do 4 weeks of laundry (we didn't go very often) in 2 hours and pay 4 or 5 dollars. At those prices it didn't make much sense to buy a washer/dryer though it was a drag schlepping 4 laundry baskets to the laundromat and then hanging stuff on a bar in the back seat of the car. BUT it actually saved time/money.

Just a few years back, our washer had some issues and we took laundry to a local laundromat. Large washers were 7 dollars a load and large dryers were a dollar for 10 minutes. We got our washer fixed as soon as they could get the parts. YMMV

[old medic]

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Originally Posted by Koolau We didn't own a washer/dryer. We'd go to a laundromat. Just a few years back, our washer had some issues and we took laundry to a local laundromat.

We also started out going to the laundromat. In 1986, with our son born, the Wife had a choice, Cloth diapers and a wash machine, or disposable diapers. So we got a machine.
When we sold the house and move to the camper, The machines went into storage, and we got to experience going back to the laundromat... That SUCKED.. then Covid made it even worse. Top priority was to get that fixed.
As soon as we got the Temp power pole set on the new place, 2 days later the well was hooked up, and garden hose and extension cord made laundry possible.