One thing no one warned me about before college was laundry. Yes, of course, I heard the old “come home to visit and bring bags of dirty laundry home to mom” but no one ever talks about what happens in the basements of college dorms. Frankly, I can understand why. It is disgusting and why would you want to talk about a subject that makes your skin crawl? But the truth must come out, doing your laundry at college is probably the worst part about college.
1. Always look inside before putting your clothes in
You would be surprised what you can pull out of a washer machine. A few weeks ago I was graced with getting the washer machine that had someone's leftover lucky charms cereal from breakfast in it!
2. Odd number of socks
I swear I have lost at least 5 socks at this point. I don't know how they disappear from the dryer to my laundry bag but they find a way to go missing.
3. Save up
You would think that if you are already paying $15,000 to live in the dorms the laundry would be covered. Nope, $1.50 per wash and $1.25 per dryer and if you are like me and care too much about your clothes you separate everything: whites with whites, colors with colors and darks with darks...every load adds up!
4. CLEAN OUT THE LINT TRAP PEOPLE
Literally the vent says “please clean before use”
5. You start to appreciate quarters
The day the laundry room accepts debit cards will be the best day.
6. Arm workouts
If you're like me and spend only about 30 hours a week in your dorm (live love architecture!) laundry starts to build up and you will get to a point and realize you haven’t done laundry in about 3 weeks by this point your hamper will weigh a ton and carry that plus bleach and plus tide pods is the best arm workout ever.
7. Sea of clothes
You get creative on where you hang your clothes to dry.
8. Smells
Shockingly the laundry room is probably the least smelliest room in the whole building because the bleach overpowers everything else.
9. You learn from your mistakes
Never put a red suede dress in when a light blue shirt…
10. Suddenly no one back home has to do laundry anymore
Almost every Sunday my mom rubs it in my face that now that I'm gone she barely has any laundry to do but I still call her every time I have to do laundry on what I should do.
11. Lazybone's
At first, I made fun of it, I can do my own laundry I don't need to pay to get it done. Now every time I open a washer machine I think to myself “ I wonder if the lazybones washers actually clean?”
12. Basic awareness
Let's play the game ‘how many other people have this shirt?’
13. Laundry thieves
Never be late to the laundry room cause you never know if your clothes will be stolen.
