College laundry services?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i don't understand parents who pay for this.

kids can do their own laundry. it's part of growing up and managing life.

what else can't your kid do for him/herself?

Agree. Plus I haven’t heard good things about the services.

Do they ruin stuff? Mix darks and whites?

[Anonymous]

There are lots of gig economy laundry services.

I cringe at myself now, but when I was in college, I had laundry service my freshman year and it was too much of a pain to tote the clothes and pick up at the central point. The new services do point to point pick up and drop off.

[Anonymous]

I saw lockers to drop off dirty laundry in the lobby of a Georgetown dorm this weekend. You can pay to have it washed and brought back. They also had laundry facilities for kids that don't want to pay that service.

[Anonymous]

My Ivy at least half the kids used laundry service (this was 20 years ago) thru the university.

It was a huge time saver, as the laundry facilities were not in every building, took a ton of quarters (so I had to go to bank too often, because I wasn’t keeping $300 in quarters around), and generally sucked at least half a day or more on weekends. I could leave it, but there weren’t many machines so if someone came by your laundry was on a pile somewhere random.

[Anonymous]

Mine does her own. It's not hard.
Life skills are important too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i don't understand parents who pay for this.

kids can do their own laundry. it's part of growing up and managing life.

what else can't your kid do for him/herself?

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Ivy at least half the kids used laundry service (this was 20 years ago) thru the university.

It was a huge time saver, as the laundry facilities were not in every building, took a ton of quarters (so I had to go to bank too often, because I wasn’t keeping $300 in quarters around), and generally sucked at least half a day or more on weekends. I could leave it, but there weren’t many machines so if someone came by your laundry was on a pile somewhere random.

💯
It was so inefficient back then

[Anonymous]

Looks like a pretty mixed view on this.
Which means that some ppl must use this and that’s okay!

Sheesh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I’d want to use it for biweekly sheets, towels and blankets.

Otherwise, there’s no way they would be washed (if they came back folded and pressed I think he’d be incentivized to put them on his bed).

I think my kid might end up doing most of his own clothing (he already knows how), but if I could set something up to get the big things washed regularly, I think he would actually change his bedsheets.

Tip. In college, towels should be EVERY week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Ivy at least half the kids used laundry service (this was 20 years ago) thru the university.

It was a huge time saver, as the laundry facilities were not in every building, took a ton of quarters (so I had to go to bank too often, because I wasn’t keeping $300 in quarters around), and generally sucked at least half a day or more on weekends. I could leave it, but there weren’t many machines so if someone came by your laundry was on a pile somewhere random.

Just posted that mine does her own. Also at Ivy. They have washers and dryers in every dorm, and they are free, but a few years ago, many were broken and all required quarters. They did a big laundry overhaul. I'm grateful because we can't afford laundry service!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I’d want to use it for biweekly sheets, towels and blankets.

Otherwise, there’s no way they would be washed (if they came back folded and pressed I think he’d be incentivized to put them on his bed).

I think my kid might end up doing most of his own clothing (he already knows how), but if I could set something up to get the big things washed regularly, I think he would actually change his bedsheets.

Good idea.
Makes sense for towels and sheets and blankets weekly which take forever to dry. And I like that’s it’s neat and tidy and folded.

[Anonymous]

If your kid can’t handle their laundry, should they be living at college? Maybe you need more time to teach them at home. My kid has done his own laundry since he was 8-9 yrs old.

[Anonymous]

My son plans to use a sleeping bag, not proper bedding. Not kidding.

[Anonymous]

It is really going to depend on your kid's specific school - at mine, the dorms were super old and the laundry was in a bad location, old and not enough of them so while my kids are completely capable of handling this, it was a pain and a lot of stuff got wrecked or stolen.

That being said, my kids would have been mortified to use a service like this and preferred to suffer through. I would put your kid in charge of researching it and deciding if it is worth it after being on campus a few weeks.

[Anonymous]

My kid washes his sweatshirts which all need to be hung to dry…he knows how to do the laundry - but it’s conveniently located near his bedroom right now. Plus no one is leaving his clothes on top of the dryer - if he forgets to flip.

But our housekeeper does everything else in the family, including all linens. Different strokes for different folks.

There will be college kids who order new sheets and towels from Amazon rather than washing anything.
Who am I to judge?

Let it go.