Laundry Tips
2 min readJul 30, 2018
Heading to the laundromat? Check out these handy tips to make it easier and more fun!
- Remember, sort your clothes before you go to the laundromat. It’s more efficient and more polite.
- Do any pre-stain treatment before you go as well, so you won’t be juggling all those containers. Laundry, detergent, dryer sheets, that’s it.
- Sniff the machines before you use them. Not for gross reasons — OK, those too — but to make sure the person before you didn’t use bleach.
- Separate your whites and any items that may need special care and wash those, you know, separately.
- Bring rolls of quarters. Change machines may be broken.
- Don’t leave your clothes unattended.
- Getting into a dryer and starting it up sounds cool, but it really isn’t.
- Even if your friend who’s really good with his camera is going to take the ultimate Facebook profile pic for you.
- Even if there’s no way anyone would ever catch you, and you can fit right in there, no problem.
- Especially if your friend thinks the picture would be SO MUCH COOLER if you had sparklers in your mouth cuz it would spin around and he could use a long exposure and get this funky circular fire effect, he’s done it a hundred times before. A dozen times. Couple times. At least.
- He’ll tell you it’ll be awesome.
- It will not.
- When you are spinning at high speeds, your blood will get centrifuged out into your extremities and may leave you dizzy and lightheaded
- Also: dryer lint is highly, really highly flammable.
- Also also: It’s harder than you’d think to open the door of a dryer when you’re inside it and spinning and on fire and your friend has bolted.
I know all this now.
