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uptowngirl
uptowngirl

Laundry anybody?

When I am walking on NYC streets I am often accosted by the scent of laundry which tends to waft out of basement laundry rooms. I tend to love the smell and this got me wondering as apartment dwellers where does everyone do their laundry? Are you lucky enough to have a washer and dryer in your apartment or do you use the communal machines in the building as I do or do you go to commercial laundromat or even to one of those wash and fold by weight places?
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ajadedidealist
ajadedidealist 2yrs+
We have communal - I know many apartments in my area (UES) tend to. It's a nice way to meet the neighbors! And avoid the noise in your own homee
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hhusted
hhusted 2yrs+
I have my own washing machine so I don't use any external facilities.
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
I drop mine off at the laundry around the corner and pick it up in a nice little clean, folded stack a few hours later.
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
There's a laundry mat on my block.... I have the option of dropping it off, but have been doing it myself since I moved in. I actually haven't dropped my laundry off since I lived in the LES where we had the Sun Sun laundry place on Stanton St... they were so amazing. I had a friend that came down from the Village to use them.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
Just out of curiousity how expensive is it to use one of these laundry wash and fold places. The machines in my building have to be operated with a stored value card and on an average to wash a load is $1.25-$2. Dryers also have similair prices of course the foldinng is all my hard labor :) not to mention the ironing. A friend of mine who lives in the city and couldnt be bothered with domestic chores drycleans everything including towels.. yucck thats not getting them clean is it? I think New Yorkers as a whole patronize dry cleaners a lot otherwise why would the city have that many dry cleaning mom and pop stores.
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
@uptowngirl You pay by the pound usually, so it varies a bit. When I lived in the LES, I never paid more than $8 for a full laundry bag, not counting whatever tip I added.

That's a pretty good deal you have in your building. My local place charges $1.75 for a small wash and $3.25 for a large one. I think $1.25 buys about 40 mins in the dryer.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@uraniumfish funny that's how much I tend to pay as well though I do my sheets, towels etc every week and then I iron them too..there is something so seductive about clean, freshly ironed ,sheets..Luckily for me though the machines are on my floor so I put my laundry in and then go back to whatever I was doing in my apartment. I use an egg timer to remind me to turn the laundry though.
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
@uptowngirl Aaahh, see, that makes all the difference! Laundry machines in the building are the only way I'd do my own laundry...
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hhusted
hhusted 2yrs+
Having a washing machine has its advantages. At least the only cost to me is the laundry detergent. And that I pay for two times a month.
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
Living about 50 feet from the laundry mat isn't too bad; I just throw my clothes in the wash and go home until it's time to put them in the dryer. I have it pretty well timed out by now.

I can understand not wanting to deal with laundry mats, though, and if I lived any further away I probably would just send out my laundry - seems to be what most New Yorkers do.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@hhusted some friends who are similarly blessed like you enjoy the convenience of doing their laundry at anytime of the day/night unlike us lot who have to rely on the timings of communal machines and Laundromats.
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hhusted
hhusted 2yrs+
Trust me, uptowngirl, I used to be in the same boat as you guys. But I soon realized that the costs of doing laundry was getting out of hand, especially when my budget got tighter. So I decided to buy a washing machine. I had this machine for 5 years now, and haven't seen the inside of a laundry mat in years.
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