I hate having community laundry space.

[Deleted]

A girl in my building left her clothes in the washing machine for 3 fucking days! Someone finally took them out on Friday and I watched the girl put the load in the dryer. I just walked down to switch my clothes and her shit is still sitting in there. So she left it in the washer for 3 days and the dryer for 2.

What the hell is wrong with people? We share the laundry room with 15 other apartments. Don't be so rude!

[TrickyBob]

Uh. If I leave clothing in the washer for more than a day it starts to get a musty smell. No way would I leave it in a community washing machine for THREE days and not re-wash.

[joenali]

So move the clothes and do your thing. I loved the community laundry room. 4 loads of laundry done in an hour!

[snipsnsnails]

Ack!! Mildew!

[bania]

Jul 7, 2013 23:14:47 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

Uh. If I leave clothing in the washer for more than a day it starts to get a musty smell. No way would I leave it in a community washing machine for THREE days and not re-wash.

All of this 

[zoidberg]

Last weekend this weirdo new girl used all of the washing machines to wash and rewash her clothes at least 3 times. Like, she kept going down there and just running the machines again and again without taking the stuff out. And they were small loads, too (we looked because we were wondering wtf). They could easily have fit into 2 machines. And right in the middle of a Sunday afternoon. It was so annoying. I am counting the days until we have our own laundry again.

[Deleted]

I live in a 5 unit apartment and my stuff would never just sit in a washer that long. If I leave it down there for more than an hour after it's done it's thrown out of the machine it's in. We only have 2 washers and 2 dryers though.

[VillainV]

When I do laundry it's because I need clean clothes. Letting it sit in the laundry room for days doesn't put me in clean socks sooner.

The last time I was in a communal laundry situation, someone actually left stuff in the laundry room and moved it. We left it there for a few weeks thinking that eventually she would realize she was missing stuff and come back for it, but she never did. How do you DO that???

[Yankees21]

(puke)That person sounds inconsiderate AND gross!

[RoxMonster]

I am so thankful to not be in the communal laundry situation anymore. I always had the person that left their stuff sitting for hours or days. I am also at a loss as to how they were not missing any of the clothes they left down there for days.

[zitiqueen]

Why did nobody take the clothes out of the washer and put them on top of the machine an hour after the load was finished?

[TrickyBob]

Jul 8, 2013 6:07:48 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Jul 7, 2013 23:50:05 GMT -5 tators said:

She shit her pants and needed them to be thoroughly cleaned.

Ha.  I was thinking she got violently ill and the closest receptacle was the laundry hamper.

Jut burn it all at that point. lol

[Deleted]

There is no way I would wait 3 days for someone to move their laundry from washer to dryer. I'd wait an hour TOPS and then just take it out and put it on a counter or somewhere.

[Deleted]

We have community laundry here too!! I hate it, and the more I think about other peoples laundry, dog/cat and whatever hair that was there before skeeves me the hell out. Wishing I had my own machine again.

I had an instance once when I had 2 loads of laundry in. ( I always time my loads) and I come down to some dude taking MY stuff out of the washer and it wasn't even finished yet!!! he had mixed my laundry with someone elses and said "well they were side by side so I figured they were all together" that man got the biggest piece of my mind and I don't think he will ever do that again.

Grr I had community laundry.

[darkling_glory]

Jul 8, 2013 5:54:05 GMT -5 zitiqueen said:

Why did nobody take the clothes out of the washer and put them on top of the machine an hour after the load was finished?

This.

[nsl]

I have been so spoiled. The only time I've had to deal with community laundry was 6-ish months when I was interning/just moved in with H and we hadn't bought our house yet. I can't imagine someone either leaving their clothes in the machine for days or coming into the laundry room to find a stranger pawing through my wet clothes. Blech!

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

Jul 8, 2013 7:52:54 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

We have three washers and four driers in the shared laundry room. What sense does that make?

I have hookups in my downstairs bathroom, but haven't pulled the trigger on actually buying the appliances yet. The common laundry room is literally just steps from my apartment so it's super convenient.

Washers take way more time than dryers...it makes sense to have more dryers. I remember watching the Duggars original special when they only had 14 kids, they had 2 washers and 4 dryers. 

I LOVE having my own w/d but man it would be nice to be able to get it all done at once. 

[rodeored]

Jul 8, 2013 7:58:36 GMT -5 Miss Phryne Fisher said:

Jul 8, 2013 7:52:54 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

We have three washers and four driers in the shared laundry room. What sense does that make?

I have hookups in my downstairs bathroom, but haven't pulled the trigger on actually buying the appliances yet. The common laundry room is literally just steps from my apartment so it's super convenient.

Washers take way more time than dryers...it makes sense to have more dryers. I remember watching the Duggars original special when they only had 14 kids, they had 2 washers and 4 dryers. 

I LOVE having my own w/d but man it would be nice to be able to get it all done at once. 

Hmm I would have said the opposite. When I was living in a dorm we had twice as many driers because it took ~30 mins to wash and ~1h to dry.

I am moving from an apartment with a stack-able unit to one with a shared coin op laundry. I am kind of bummed about it.

[Muddled]

I can't compute your complaint. It is easy enough just to remove the clothes.

I miss having laundry in my building.

[Deleted]

I don't understand how the stuff lasted 3 days in the washer. In my building, abandoned loads get moved out of the washer after like 15 minutes of sitting. And I thought my neighbors were quite civilized for waiting that long.

And yeah -- who cares? If you need the machine, move the stuff (nicely) to a table or on top of a washer or dryer. That's day 1, lesson 1 of Communal Laundry 101.