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<p>Which behavior are you saying is bad? There are kids who will put their laundry in and leave it while they go do anything. Don’t blame the other kids who will move that person’s stuff after it sits tying up the entire laundry room for HOURS.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s rude to take out already washed laundry and put it on a counter, etc. if I’m not back to do it myself. I’d rather that be done than put it in the dryer and shrink something I wouldn’t dry! </p>
<p>I remember one semester I had an isolated 11 o’clock class (no class before or after), so I loaded the washer just before my psych class and headed right back after class to pop it in the dryer. The timing was almost perfect and nobody was around during that time frame, so I had the laundry room to myself. Felt great to have it done during the week!</p>
<p>OP is very thoughtful to consider others—I’m guessing her thoughtfulness is not all that common…</p>
<p>My S told me he hasn’t washed clothes and is now out of everything…I told him to be thankful there’s a big laundry room with multiple machines-- pick an odd time and run three loads —no other option. An empty machine is there for the taking-- just as it is in an empty public laundromat. I remember the days of renting apartments and hauling laundry once a week to a public laundromat…I didn’t do one load at a time but multiple loads.</p>
<p>It is perfectly fine!</p>
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<p>I think both are bad—dumping someone’s wet stuff out is not better than leaving laundrey for hours.
It would be nice if using dorm/public laundrey people could tell when loads were put in etc and it would be nice if people were there in reasonable time to put things in the dryer. </p>
<p>While people can say they dont like someone handling your laundrey–or putting it in a dryer–unless you are there --the likelyhood of it being handled/dumped out is high.</p>
<p>Patience, courtesy and manners go a long way…and yet can be in short supply in dorm laundrey rooms…
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<p>“In the mid 1960s I was in a busy laundromat in Iowa City trying to do five or six loads of clothes… I’d already had sharp words with an old harridan over the number of washers I’d had to use. Now I was waiting for the next round with her, or someone else like her. I was nervously keeping an eye on the dryers that were in operation in the crowded laudromat. When and if one of the dryers ever stopped, I planned to rush over to it with my shopping basket of damp clothes. Understand, I’d been hanging around in the laundromat for thirty minutes or so with this basketful of clothes, waiting my chance. I’d already missed out on a couple of dryers - somebedy’d gotten there first. I was getting frantic… Finally a dryer came to a stop. And I was right there when it did. The clothes inside quit tumbling and lay still. In thirty seconds or so, if no one showed up to claim them, I’d planned to get rid of the clothes and replace them with my own. That’s the law of the laundromat.”</p>
<p>From “Fires” by Raymond Carver.</p>
<p>Laundramats usually have wireframe carts. If there are wet clothes in the washing machine and you need it, put the clothes in one of the wireframe carts and use the machine. You will most likely be saving someone work in the transfer so that they can just wheel it over to the driers. If you put the clothes on a counter, that’s an area that can’t be used by someone else for folding.</p>
<p>For the original poster, can students use the machines on another floor if the ones on their own floor are in use?</p>
<p>i normally waited 25-30 minutes before I would move someone’s stuff. Seldom would I move it out of the washer, but instead it was normally the dryer that I would need to move it from. A lot of times stuff being stuck in the washer wasn’t the fault of the owner of those clothes-- the dryer was normally taken so they were waiting for it to finish…</p>
<p>Did have one guy for either a semester or a year who would dry one thing at a time. That made a lot of us mad…</p>
<p>People seem to be mistaking “putting clothes in the dryer” and “putting clothes in the dryer, then starting the machine.” Countertops are sometimes gunky with lint, dried detergent, and other things. No, I would much rather someone stick my wet laundry in the dryer, from which I fish out my non-dryer-friendly clothes before starting the machine myself. This does mean, of course, that starting dryer cycles for other people is a no-no (though this is generally not a problem whenever laundry isn’t free).</p>
<p>@sunmachine:
Yes, that’s what I do. A grace period of 30 seconds, then the clothes come out: from the washer into the dryer or from the dryer onto the counter.</p>
<p>If I left the scene and my wash were finished, I would think it perfectly fair if someone took it out of the washer to make room for his/her own wash. I would hope that the wet load would be put somewhere clean. But I would not want someone to start it in a dryer (unlikely, anyway, if the dryer costs money).</p>
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Whenever I can’t move clothes out of the washer for this reason, I leave a note on my machine stating so. I’m always surprised how this works like a charm – my note-protected clothes have never once been removed and dumped on the counter during the period of dryer full-occupancy.</p>
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<p>In that situation, why not take your clothes out of the washer and put them in your laundry basket, until a dryer is available? That way you’re not tying up a washer with your already washed clothes.</p>
<p>^ Because this keeps first dibs on the dryer. If her wet laundery gets bumped waiting for a dryer, another person uses the washer, now you have two wet loads of wash waiting for a dryer. </p>
<p>I have heard of some schools whose laundry system will text you when your wash/dry cycle is done. No excuses!!</p>
<p>Middle of the night always worked best for me. I would fold whatever laundry I took out of the dryer whomever it belonged to.</p>
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Some schools have this at [your school’s initials].esuds.net (example: I’m going to Michigan State, so it’s msu.esuds.net). The site shows you if washers/dryers are available, how long the wait will be if not, and you can get email/text notifications when the load is complete or when a washer/dryer is free. :D</p>
<p>(grr; double post)</p>
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<p>I spent the summer living on campus at UW-Whitewater. They had a thing where you could look it up online and/or get text messages. Pretty nice…</p>
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Except people at those schools are just as bad at picking up their laundry in a timely fashion as students who don’t have access to real-time laundry updates.</p>
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We just came back from vacation at a resort and there were public laundrey rooms–
I would do the same thing–fold someone’s load so I could use the dryer.
Figured better to be a blessing …and get use of the dryer… than be a bad example like some older women I ran into who were “…itching” about it and took a wet load out! yikes.</p>
<p>My D said the best time to do laundry was early (really early) on Sunday morning. If she was having trouble sleeping, she’d get up and take care of it all. Worst times by far were Sunday afternoons and evenings. </p>
<p>One of my sisters had a number of pieces stolen from a load. She never left the laundry alone again. Funny thing was seeing her sweater on someone and having that person <em>insist</em> it wasn’t hers. Of course, when the same person was wearing another of the stolen items, it was pretty hard to deny. (I think the thief turned and ran away.)</p>