Doing Laundry in College

Doing laundry is not a life-skill that is necessary for survival and paying a college service provider like Dorm Mom to do your laundry is well worth it.

Most college dorms have laundry rooms on each floor, ground floor or in suites. They are usually very convinient, accessible and reliable. Some are coin operated and others are free to residents. Some colleges require the use of a charge card for payments. You swipe your card and release the washer and/or dryer for use. The cost of doing laundry in college is definately not much but it takes a lot more than just that to get the job done.

Most incoming freshmen have never done laundry in their life and a lot of students are too busy to do laundry on a weekly basis. While the university provides the convinience, most students do not always do their laundry. An entire house in a dorm can stink up just because a guy down the hall has laundry piled up to the door even though the laundry room is only down the hall. A guy in my hall was opposite the laundry room but never did his laundry. He was nick-named "stinky" - not very nice but that was what everyone called him.

Not doing your laundry correctly will not only stink up your room/hall but will also ruin expensive clothing. There are students that wash but do not dry the cloths enough; or wash and leave stuff in the washer for days. You put stuff in the washer, get busy doing something else and forget your laundry for hours or days.

This has happened to me many times. If the clothes are left too long, then Mildew starts to grow. No matter how many times you wash the clothes, the smell stays. Mildew is a mold or mirco-organism. This just happened to my favorite pair of jeans. I threw them in a large pot on the stove and boiled the jeans for 5 minutes to kill the mold. Results - NO MORE SMELL!! And fortunately, they didn't shrink!

When someone else comes around to do laundry, they will throw your stuff out; there was a case where some guy found his laundry in the trash can in the laundry room just because it was in the way of someone else. A new trend in some college campuses is the ability to monitor your laundry online for when it's done, etc. It's not very popular but a handful of colleges have adopted that technology.

Doing laundry is not a life-skill that is necessary for survival and paying a college service provider like Dorm Mom to do your laundry is well worth it. It's extremely convinient and your laundry is done professionally with utmost attention paid to care tag. Each clothing material is treated differently, wash temperature, drying time and temperature; how much detergent, bleach or not, ironing, etc. Using too much detergent could ruin your clothing; drying to much or too little could shrink your clothing and cost you a lot more in the long run. At the University of Maryland, students have their laundry picked-up, done and delivered for only $168 per semester. This is a weekly service. It is a deal that cannot be beat.