Ataraxia? It's a condition characterized by freedom from worry or any other pre-occupation really.

[witticaster]

Laundry has become the biggest concern in my life at the moment. Okay, not the biggest, but certainly the most immediate. Today I am wearing my "the floggings will continue until morale improves" shirt, and though there isn't a dress code at my job, I still wouldn't normally sport a skull and crossbones in my polite, shy and hopefully helpful

Comments

[juldea]

Is it lack of money or lack of quarters that's the problem? If it's the latter, any laundromat probably has a change machine that you can use simply to get your 42 quarters, then take them back to your house to do the laundry there.

[witticaster]

Lack of quarters, mostly, though I'd also prefer to not spend twenty dollars a month on laundry. (Fortunately it's only for a couple more months, so it's doable.) I don't regularly use laundromats, though, so I don't know if that's a normal price or not. Are most laundromats more than 1.75 per wash/3.50 per load? Because if I'm finding a ride to one anyway, I'd probably take my clothes as well unless there was a good reason not to.

[juldea]

The one next to my house is $2/wash load on regular machines and $4/load on the "triple-size" machines, and the dryers are $.25/6-7 minutes (some of the dryers think 6, some 7.) In my experience, a single wash load ($2) will take 30ish minutes to dry, aka $1-1.50, so approximately your $3.50.

The washer/dryer in the basement behind my last apartment was $1.75/wash and $1.25/dry.

[witticaster]

So similarly priced, in general. Though my dryer takes at least an hour and doesn't dry things entirely, so either the laundromat will take the same amount of time and be more expensive, or it will be quicker and a similar price. Given the relative age of the machines in my basement, I figure the latter is a bit more likely. So I might try that, just to see.

[teenyweenyowen]

As noted most laundromats have quarter machines. Also most real banks have rolls of quarters for the asking.

[witticaster]

Yeah, I'd considered the latter. It might end up being the easiest option.

[koboldninja_5]

I am specifically not allowed to let people use the machine, otherwise I would. There is one on Crescent Street, and there is another I think up on the other side of the gas station at Main and South, but I am not sure about the latter.

[witticaster]

Aye, found the one on Crescent Street. It seems not terribly located and pleasant enough.

[shala]

I went to the laundromat on Crescent a few times the summer I lived in Waltham. You actually buy a little card (I think it's a dollar?) that you put money on, and you use that for the laundry, so you don't actually need change. It was pleasant enough, two years ago. I could even watch the news on the tv screens if I got bored with my book or mp3 player.

[witticaster]

Aye. Sometime this summer I might stop by there, if only to experience going to a laundromat other than the on campus things.

[bronzite]

I have a washer and a dryer available. Drop me a line and we'll hook you up.

[witticaster]

Thanks! I've averted the crisis temporarily, but if the offer is still open later I might take you up on it.

[hanasaseru]

I was going to see about indirectly offering you the same washer/dryer, but luckily, I see this is taken care of. :)