So, my daughter just got an email from her college that they are trying a new program. They are adding $50 per semester to the bill and allowing unlimited laundry. No more quarters or swiping ID. This is obviously very beneficial to the student who does lots of laundry. Of course if you’re like my son, it will be tough to do $50 worth in a semester. (Boys). I guess I like the convenience factor and $50 added to that crazy large bill is almost unnoticeable 
Thoughts?
I did laundry about every two weeks, Two loads wash and dry, four loads, 1.50 to 2.00 a load nowadays I guess. Sounds about right to me.
Your son wouldn’t be doing a lot of laundry? Does he work out? If so, I would think he would need to wash his work out clothes at least every other week. I have girls. They did laundry every week. They always complained on having the right change for laundry. I would have preferred $50/semester.
D2’s school does this–definitely easier than having pull together quarters.
I have a son and a daughter. My daughter will definitely do more laundry than my son does. He is kind of an “only out of necessity” kind of guy. He buys LOTS of underwear and then goes through his entire wardrobe before doing laundry. He is not the only Boy like this. It is my daughter who will be at the school with $50 per semester laundry. Will definitely get more bang for the buck with her.
It probably wouldn’t have made much of a difference to me, but I’m sure both of my Ds would have approved. No more looking for quarters…
My experience son, now grad school, will do much more laundry then daughter, entering freshman.
BTW most schools don’t use quarters any longer. School ID has them money on it.
Presumably college made determination that most kids are spending less than $50 per semester. I didn’t know any schools were still using coins.
My kids’ school does this. My son figured out how many loads of laundry he’d have to do to beat the system and did that much at minimum each semester. He’s strange like that.
I’m surprised schools still use coins. At my school laundry is part of room and board. You still have to swipe your ID but it doesn’t charge you, just lets you in the laundry room
I would have happily paid the $50 if it meant that I didn’t have to constantly try to scrounge for quarters. That was a huge PITA since I very rarely have any kind of cash on me.
$50 a semester sounds like a bargain to me!
My parents pay for my kids to have laundry service. This costs $160/semester for weekly door to door service. . My mother is a firm believer that dorm based laundry is a huge waste of kids time that could be spent studying, having fun or napping. I wasn’t sure I bought that argument but my kids sure are grateful.
No waste of time at my kids’ schools. They put their clothes in locking machines…and received a text message when they were done. They studied while they did the laundry, no quarters. They used their student cards and swiped.
But I would have paid $50 a semester.
Both of my kids colleges had “free” laundry. I’m sure there was some charge included in the student fees for it but they didn’t break it out. But I was happy the laundry was free and they didn’t have to walk around with a load of quarters.
My dorm had 12 washers and dryers. Took less time to do laundry than it takes now at home because I could wash/dray 2-4 loads of laundry at the same time. Now with dorm laundries using ID swipes rather than coins and sending texts with loads are done and machines are open its even easier. Laundry is one of life’s necessities. College is a great time to learn how to deal with it.
My college has door-to-door laundry service as well, which I used from freshman through junior year. But I’m gonna have to tough it out as a senior. Either way, we don’t need coins.
My kids all had laundry included in dorm fee, not an extra charge. The kids who lived off campus would sneak into dorms to do their laundry. I remember when I was in college frequently not being able to do laundry sometimes because no quarters but also because the payment thing on the machine kept breaking down. Anyway, I think any flat fee for laundry is great.