"Claremont McKenna has cleaning/maid service for all dorm rooms."

What's this?!? They make beds? Pick condoms off the floor?

I started at a SLAC in New England 15 years ago. It was a student-run business. Students picked up bags, drove them to off-campus laundromat, brought them back. The campus basically did nothing but they permitted it to exist.

Hmm should have said: how does the clothing hold up

How do the clothing hold up? Will they wash things with like colors, on cold, or use the delicate cycle? Or does it all wash and dry on hot in a big industrial tub?

I used to work at the campus laundry service. We didn't do the actual cleaning, but managed the process to send to professional laundry/dry cleaning services, as well as cleaned the campus laundry rooms (I can't remember why the janitorial staff couldn't do those)

I remember that guys were the biggest users - they had clothes that stood up better to bulk laundry washing, and I'm old enough that isn't wasn't necessarily expected that guys "knew" how to do laundry.

We did have one girl in our dorm who had always had maids her entire life. We caught her sending sweatpants to the dry cleaners and staged an intervention to introduce her to the washing machine.

DH played a sport at Middlebury and laundry service was free for athletes (graduated in past ten years).

We had this at my school 15 years ago. I didn't use it, but sure wish my roommate would have. She didn't know how to do laundry, so just bought new clothes whenever she ran out. Our room was awful.

My husband used it all 4 years though....which would explain why he poured laundry detergent directly onto our brand new towels and totally discolored them on their very first wash.

Anonymous wrote:Here' one for the books. When my husband went to college 40 years ago his southern college still had maids to clean the dorm rooms. Crazy!

Claremont McKenna has cleaning/maid service for all dorm rooms.

And the college my kid attends hires live in maids for the dorms, but they are only responsible for the bathrooms, kitchens and common areas. Students are responsible for their own rooms.

I remember a student who did her laundry for the first time in her life her junior or senior year. I remember it well, because she overpacked the machine and it started to smoke, the fire alarms went off and the building had to be evacuated. Couldn't believe it. Will not name the college.

Before I get too smug though, when I was living off campus and a laundry mat proprietress saw my folding skills, she took it upon her horrified self to give a me a lesson.

Anonymous wrote:If I remember correctly when my sister enrolled at Notre Dame (close to thirty years ago - yikes!), the laundry service was mandatory for the men, but optional for the women. I recall being appalled. I went to Cornell where everybody had to deal with the laundry rooms in the dorms.

Funny, I was discussing this a few months ago with a friend who graduated ND in '81. He explained that the laundry service for me was actually included in the tuition -- all the guys got it. But the school he said had not been coed for long and the women were not included in the contract. It was all news to me.

Anonymous wrote:My sons go to a college with a laundry service but don't know many kids who use it. My kids have been doing their own laundry since their early teens.

So funny, but I have NO recollection of how I did my laundry in college! Parties, studying, eating, yes. Laundry???

They had this when I was in college 20+ Yes ago. I only used it freshman year. I had never done laundry before. There did a pretty mediocre job. It was one bag a week in a specific laundry bag which all these years later my best frienD h
as and uses. Makes me laugh whenever I see the old bag.

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My parents were middle class but I Think my mother just wanted me to have one less thing to worry about so far from home.

We took a tour at Princeton and the student guide said he just got a job handling laundry. I recall thinking the pay wasn't too shabby got a college kid.

To leave students more time to....play video games?

Davidson does the laundry for all students (free) if sign up for the service.