<p>Exeter recommends the laundry service in it’s E Book. It has the same rational as above that the kids are adjusting to a heavy workload, sports, living away ect…
I figure with the major investment we are making in tuition/board ect… we want to give son every opportunity to succeed. The laundry service charge is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall expense. We will reevaluate as he matures and probably drop the service in a year or two once he has adjusted to everything a little bit. </p>
<p>Skibum: Do you remember the name of the website where you ordered the name labels?</p>
<p>I’m happy to know the cost of the Laundry service is covered in the tuition/room/board expenses at my son’s school. Students still have the option of using coin-operated dorm machines if preferred.</p>
<p>checkwriter…so true. When my children lived at home, I always did all of the laundry. My daughter went off to college and immediately started doing her own laundry. She does it in a timely fashion, folds, puts away, etc. No questions asked. My son, who is at the second year at bs, lets it pile up, often brings it home, and, whenever he does decide to do a load at school, calls or texts for instructions. How hard can it be???</p>
<p>PA-C – I ordered labels from [Iron</a> On Labels Personalized for Clothing by Pronto Labels](<a href=“http://www.prontolabels.com%5DIron”>http://www.prontolabels.com) – came in a few days, and you can get 50 for $ 10.00, or 100 for 13.00!</p>
<p>SAER – I checked the Choate website, and there is a “laundry building” but I couldn’t locate it on the map. I know that there are facilities that are much closer than a mile – probably where all the students have to go to pick up their clean laundry. I’ll try to find out more and pm you.</p>
<p>On athletic practice/uniform clothes, the way it works at Choate (and probably most of the schools) is that students pick up and change into their school supplied practice shorts/shirts at gym, then after practice, shower and leave dirty clothes at gym facility, which takes care of wash, so no worries there, even if you don’t get laundry service.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link to the label website, i was just going to ask about that.
S lost a ton of clothing this year and I dont want it to happen again.</p>
<p>Agree Periwinkle - sharpie pen is quite handy - especially on inside of jeans and some pant waistbands, though was reluctant to use on collared or polo shirts. We also used sharpie on some of son’s personal items that he took with him.</p>
<p>Sharpie! Those smell good…
anyway, I plan on washing my OWN clothes (minus dry cleaning and the occasional comforter). Reasons:</p>
<p>a) I am an independent person (sort of) and I can AT LEAST wash my own clothes, I’m not a child that needs everything done for her.
b) I distrust other people (other than my mom/grandma, of course) handling my clothes.
c) It just seems superflous.</p>
<p>ThacherParent, was that “way to go” as in you really liked it, or “way to go” in a sarcastic manner? It’s hard to tell on CC, so I’m not sure how to respond.</p>
<p>Laundry service is definately not necessary, and does not encourage independence (one of the reasons students attend BS in the first place)…most schools have machines readily available, and dry cleaning pick up for the formal clothing, if required. Teaching a student to be responsible for their own laundry is a gift to them. Use the $500-600/year for something more valuable.</p>
<p>My child is very independent that is why she is going to bs. I don’t need to teach her any more “lessons”. I am happy to give her a break and let her enjoy the total experience, spend time on her sports, ec’s and of course academics. She is only going to be a prep. She has four years until college and she wouldn’t be doing her laundry if she lived at home. Should I make her “pay” because I have given her the opportunity to go away to school.</p>