Laundry

When we had a motorhome, we had a Splendide washer/dryer unit which I liked and used a lot.  After several years when that unit spun its last, we crunched numbers and decided that we could do laundry at a laundromat for a year for the price of a new unit.  We also decided that we could make better use of the space for storage.  

One day at a laundromat I overheard a conversation between a guy who was washing his clothes and a person who was stuffing a washer with some greasy/oily, particularly nasty work clothes.  This person said that they had a washer at home but didn’t want to gunk it up with the stuff on these clothes.  The guy replied that he had no washer at home, and that this was the only place he could get his laundry done.  When people brought their nasty clothes there, they were gunking up his washer.  I realized that that had happened to us too.  One time I ruined something with bleach residue in a washer.  Another time some white wash cloths came out permanently stained with something dark. 

We are still doing laundry in public places since we have no space for a unit in our “house”.  Fortunately, we haven’t had a problem for a while, but I still think about that poor guy.  I also think that if your washer at home can’t stand up to whatever you can throw at it, perhaps you need a new, more efficient washer!

Ok, I’m done ranting.

Louise and Duane