brooklyn gal for a while

airing the dirty laundry

Call me lazy, call me bourgeoise, but now that I have discovered laundry service, I may never go back to the suds and duds*. Here is how it works. I take my laundry to the place only 2 blocks away. I leave for a day. I come back and the laundry is washed, dryed and FOLDED even in nice stacks in a bag ready to go home and promtly sit on my floor for a couple days before I put things away. Now here is the kicker. . . if I wait a few weeks so that my laundry is too heavy for me to carry to the cleaners, they will pick it UP and drop OFF for free! To top all this off, I think its cheaper than the regular $2.25 per wash and dry per load (or atleast really too close to waste half my day off sitting in a grimy laundromat (OK, really standing, because many of the seats have been oddly ripped off the bench thing, or there is a spill of something sticky and brown)).

*my first encounter with a laundromat as a kid, was in this rinky dinky stripmall in NC, where we would wash our clothes in the middle of our beach vacation (actually I think we snuck into a condo's cleaning place and used their pool while we washed our clothes. Perhaps I just remember my mom looking fondly at the suds and duds after spending an hour with us at the Food Lion). Of course if the laundry places really served beer up here, that may sway my vote of cleaning methods.

posted by gordian knot @ Monday, December 05, 2005