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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your child disabled?[/quote]

No, he's a slob.  (Yes, I tried to teach him to be neat, but his bedroom is a disaster and he wore his swim trunks around the house last weekend because he was too lazy to do his laundry).  But he is a good student on a full scholarship, which I am thrilled about, so I'm thinking about doing it for the first year.  Plus, I pity his roommate.  [/quote]

Both of my sons did their own laundry starting at age 12. It is not really that difficult. Did your son ever have to do any chores around the house?[/quote]

Yes, of course he does chores.  He cleans up the kitchen after dinner most nights (dishes, etc.), and he voluntarily cooks sometimes.  He also spends a lot of time with his sister, who has Down Syndrome, and helps out taking her to doctor appointments, etc., and he does this without being required to do so.  In addition to working hard enough at school to have obtained a full academic scholarship.

But I'm getting him the laundry service no matter what you think.  I am kind of regretting that we did not have him apply to any of the schools in his dad's country, where there doesn't seem to be such a vitriolic reaction to something so inconsequential as how his socks get washed in college.

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Hi OP,

I hope you're still reading even though no one answered your question. I had a laundry service for my first three years of college and I also had a full ride to college. It worked out great! I filled my laundry bag once a week and since it was never full I washed my sheets and towels every week too and would even tell my roommate to throw her stuff in if I had extra space. The bag was returned two days later folded and wrapped so all I had to do was put the clothes away. The service never ruined anything and would even separate out items that needed to be hand washed or dry cleaned and send them back to me separately untouched. They would also return cash I left in my pockets in a small envelope. I did not do a load of laundry until I was 21 and somehow managed to be able to do it ever since along with all of the chores I now have to do. [/quote]

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