Three weeks ago washer went down. NBD. It’s a ten dollar part and maybe a half hour of labor to fix l. Part is back ordered three weeks so I’m using a laundromat mean time. To make matters worse, a high limit switch on my dryer went out so now I’m washing AND drying at the laundromat until replacement parts arrive.
Yall, it’s twenty five cents for 2.5 minutes of drying time regardless of dryer size.
It’s five dollars, eight dollars, or ten dollars per wash, depending on load size.
One x $5 wash
Two x $8 washes
One x $10 wash
$11 bucks for dryers
That’s fucking insane. A brand new 4.1 cu ft washer is $499 @ a big box store. The matching dryer is $499 also.
Twenty-three trips or thereabouts, to the laundromat and I could have bought my very own washer and dryer. The outsized effect this has on the poorest of us is absurd.
Jesus Christ. My only experience with laundromats as an adult is apartments I’ve lived in that had laundry on site just not in unit, and those were like $1-1.50 for a whole load.
What the fuck criminal laundromat are you going to? Is that just how all laundromats not within an apartment complex are? If so, try finding an apartment complex with a laundry room you can get access to (if that’s a thing in your area)
There’s a few laundromats in the area where I live and they have almost exactly the same pricing scheme as OP listed.
Have you never seen the laundromat hustle culture on YouTube?
My onsite laundry is roughly 2.00 wash 2.75 dry. I do miss my in unit laundry.