<p>How many people use the laundry service offered?</p>
<p>My son is going to be an athlete there. Between his studies and running, he's going to be pressed for time. He doesn't want to look pretentious by using the laundry service, but, we think he's seriously underestimating the time constraints he's going to be under.</p>
<p>My roommate had it freshman year.<br>
She spent more time dealing with the hassle of working under the business hours of wash u wash than I did actually doing my laundry.</p>
<p>Yes, there is a stigma to using wash u wash. Athlete or no you should be able to do your own laundry in college. An hour of your time (max) a week is not going to make any difference at all (especially considering my note above regarding how my roommate actually spent more time dealing with laundry than I did).</p>
<p>I used it one year, did my own the next couple, will be using the service again this upcoming year (taking 18 units, half of which are hard grad classes). Even when I did my own I sucked at it and let it build for like a month before I ever did. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using it.</p>
<h1>1 lesson in college: What other people think of you doesn’t mean anything. If someone thinks that a person using the service is pretentious, does it matter?</h1>
<p>I think it’s a waste of money. Doing the laundry yourself takes a very short amount of time and only costs a few dollars. And that’s only once every 1-2 weeks.</p>
<p>Take a three minute break from studying/working to put your stuff in the wash. When it’s done in 25 minutes, take another three minute break to put it in the dryer. Folding the laundry takes no more than fifteen minutes or so.</p>
<p>So what I’m getting at is that if you’re in your room working or studying for any amount of time, then you have enough time to do laundry yourself. You’re making it seem like your son will be lucky to find himself with just five minutes of downtime. That will not be the case at all.</p>
<p>People use it – I wouldn’t say it’s common but about 5% of students make use off it. If you can easily afford it, go for it. If you can’t, then don’t.</p>
<p>Marcdvl - Thanks for actually answering my question.</p>
<p>Ravnzcroft & Johnson181 - Thanks you for your answers on how to do laundry and your opinions on college students doing their own laundry. At the age of 51, holder of multiple degrees (some of them from the Ivy League), and owning my own company, it was most informative to me as I did not know that process. I don’t know how I’ve made it this far in life.</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>If your son wants for them to pick up and drop off his laundry, it’s 20% off until freshmen orientation ($199 -> $159). Again, that’s just the price of pick up and delivery (and not the actual service); you can drop it off for free which is what most people on South 40 generally do - especially if they live near Gregg.</p>
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<p>This post seemed unnecessarily passive-aggressive. You’re talking to college students who are just trying to be helpful. No need to belittle them.</p>
<p>Woah. I don’t think I’ve ever been snapped at on the WashU board. I’ll debate people on other cc boards, but I only post on the WashU boards to be helpful/ provide my honest opinion. That was indeed ridiculously passive aggressive. And completely unnecessary.</p>
<p>I was simply commenting on the “process” of wash u wash (my roommate dropped it off. I was unaware that they might pick it up for an additional cost).
Ravn was commenting on the “process” of how laundry at wustl works in the dorms, something that is different at every school. (I have a friend who goes to a school where the laundry machines are a 10 minute walk away; it’s a complete pain to do laundry there). </p>
<p>I’m sorry if your “multiple ivy league degrees” can’t fathom that the “laundry process” is not the same at every university - and that it was completely legit for ravn to discuss how long it takes to get to the laundry machines here.</p>
<p>If you want to blow hundreds of dollars for the service, feel free. But no need to be so snarky when ravn and I did, in fact, address your post regarding student perception.</p>
<p>Please forgive me. </p>
<p>I am suitably chastened by your reprimand and diagnosis of passive aggressiveness…</p>
<p>Good day.</p>
<p>If you don’t do pick-up, I can’t imagine having to walk to Gregg and back, twice, for every load of laundry, and having the hassle of conforming to their business hours, which are 2 hours a day, 3 days a week, saving you much time. Especially since it’s pretty hard to miss your own dorm’s laundry room on the way out, and at least for Ruby-Umrath, there were always machines available.</p>
<p>As for your question, I knew one person (athlete) who used it last year, and he managed to keep forgetting to drop his clothes off many times.</p>
<p>tigger59, you should know that something like an Ivy League degree is for naught if your personality is so flawed that you feel the need to cockily prove your worth to a bunch of twenty-somethings on the internet. I seriously hope your son is not the sort of snob that you have made yourself out to be, because he’ll have problems fitting in at Wash U if he is.</p>
<p>I apologize for the post I made earlier, since according to you my legitimate attempt to provide some insight was as useful as not posting anything at all. I tried to keep this response brief so that you could quickly get back to looking at yourself in the mirror.</p>