DVC Laundry Room Etiquette

[minnieluvzmickey]

Hi! I am just trying to figure out how I should have handled a laundry room situation at BWV this past week.

My friend and I stayed at BWV in a studio. We went down to the laundry room to do a load of clothes. We placed our clothes in a washer and went to eat lunch. We were gone about an hour but the cycle had said 55 min. When we came back our clothes had been thrown out of the washer and into one of the baskets. My friend was a little upset but I told her that we should have waited for our clothes and that since the washer was needed by someone else I didn't have a problem with our clothes being removed. At this point both dryers were being used so we sat in the laundry room and waited...no one else was there. One of the dryers had 10 minutes to go. We waited until the cycle was done....we then waited 5 more minutes for the person to remove their clothes but they never came. I decided to remove the clothes and place them in a basket. I guess that folding them would have been the nice thing to do but I didn't. We then waited for our clothes to dry.....we didn't let them dry all the way because we wanted to hang them up damp. It probably took about 30 minutes. When we were removing our clothes the owner of the clothes came back.....she grabbed her clothes from the basket and walked out. When we were going back to our room we notice that she is following us. When we got to our door she walked by and mumbled a name to us that starts with *****......we couldn't believe it! Later that night we come back from the parks late and there is a big wad of chewed gum on our doorknob.............I'm sure our little laundry friend did it! We both decided that if anything else happened we would call the front desk but it never did.

So were we wrong to remove the clothes? How do you handle these situations?

 

[DisneyDreamers2007]

Personally, I wouldn't have touched another persons' clothing, I'm certainly not going to fold a strangers' underwear! But you were in a tough situation since your clothes were wet.

I think what you did was fine. Some people are just rude, the kind of person that would say and do what that lady did is not a "normal" and thoughtful person that you expect everyone to be. I can't believe how some people overact to things that are not that important

 

[minnieluvzmickey]

I thought what she did was very childish but I just wondered if removing someones dry clothes from a dryer was some type of DVC taboo.

From her reaction I don't think her clothes being removed is her biggest problem

 

[CruznLexi]

In Jan at Pop I stayed in the Laundry room while the clothes were washing and drying. I saw numerous people take other clothes out of washers and dryers. Some were still wet. Not damp but wet. We have been burned too many times on both DCL and CCL by people doing that. I have no problme having someone take my clothes out just don't put them on the floor! I now stay with the clothes while they are drying.
lexi

 

[daisyduck123]

I don't think you were wrong at all. I would've done the same thing. If I had noticed her following me, I probably wouldn't have gone directly back to my room. Sounds a little creepy to me!!

 

[Cajun28]

I don't know what the proper etiquette is, but when we did a lot of traveling with my son's soccer team we used to remove clothing from washers and dryers all of the time and it never seemed to cause any trouble and had our clothes removed which didn't bother us.

That being said, if I were the type of person to have a real problem with someone else taking my clothes out of washer/dryer, I would make sure I was there when the cycle was complete.

Like I said, I don't know what the proper etiquette is as far as removing clothes, but I do feel that leaving my clothes unattended and expecting everyone else in the world to wait for me would be extremely poor etiquette.

 

[dianeschlicht]

Unless someone is keeping tabs on the time and gets down there to remove their own clothes in a reasonable time (certainly not more than 15 minutes late), I would let the clothes be. If I waited 15 minutes after the load was done and no one had returned, I WOULD take them out. I'd probably fold them though.

It sounds like your * word guest was rude on several counts! She left her clothes there long past what would have been the finish time on the dryer, and she acted childish when someone else needed to use that machine. So what made her think you wouldn't know it was SHE who put the gum there. How ridiculous is that? Did you know which room she went to?

Sometimes public laundries like that have signs posted about not leaving clothes in a machine past the cycle. Whenever we have had to use public machines anywhere, we either sit right there or check it frequently. It's not rocket science to figure out how long a cycle is going to be.

 

[Deb & Bill]

Hi! I am just trying to figure out how I should have handled a laundry room situation at BWV this past week.

My friend and I stayed at BWV in a studio. We went down to the laundry room to do a load of clothes. We placed our clothes in a washer and went to eat lunch. We were gone about an hour but the cycle had said 55 min. ...

I think you were wrong to leave your clothes in the washer for more than they needed to be. If you want to use the washers and dryers, you need to take your clothes out when the cycle is finished. I've never had a washer take 55 minutes to wash, never.

Any one who uses the free washers and dryers, needs to get their own clothes out of the washer or dryer as soon as the cycle ends. Leaving the building is not acceptable.

 

[CarolA]

My dad used to own coin laundries...

Basic rules are if you aren't there when your clothing is done it's fair game... Take it out of the machine and put it on a table. Don't fold, just pile! This is the laudromat standard and if our customers complained we pointed out that they were JUST as rude as the person they wanted to complain about!



If the woman is that concerned about her percious clothes she needs to get her BODY in there on time! She was the rude one not the OP!

Probably most DVC members aren't regular users of laundromats, but that's still no excuse.

 

[n2mm]

A tough decision. I probably would've done the same as you. However, I don't do laundry on vacation. When it needs to be done and we are in a studio, my husband does them and he stays with them the entire time. He esp likes the laundry room at the AKV-Jambo. Not sure what he would've done, but generally if someone sees a person in there waiting, they tend not to let things sit too long. Isn't that why they make those basket in the laundry room, so you can move other's clothes.

 

[jekjones1558]

I've never had a washer take 55 minutes to wash, never.

The new HE washers at BWV have MANY different settings that can take 55 minutes. That said, there is a timer on the washer so you can look at it and know when it will be finished, then arrive a few minutes early so you do not hold up the machine.

 

[SamSam]

I don't find anything rude with what you did. You didn't behave badly when you found your clothes had been removed from the washer, and I see nothing wrong with removing someone's clothes from a dryer if the cycle's over.

 

[castleri]

I don't find anything rude with what you did. You didn't behave badly when you found your clothes had been removed from the washer, and I see nothing wrong with removing someone's clothes from a dryer if the cycle's over.

This is especially true since you had your clothes in the dryer for 30 minutes before she ever came back.

 

[kaffinito]

You did fine on both ends. Too bad about the chewing gum on your doorknob, some people think that they can leave their laundry in there forever and that no one has the right to touch it.

Hope the rest of your trip was better!

 

[minnieluvzmickey]

The washers at BWV are front loaders and they do tell you how long the cycle will be.....I have the exact same washer at home....that is why I was only gone for an hour. When we left the clothes there there were 2 other empty washers so I knew if someone else came in there were some available.

 

[disneykidatheart]

I am really reluctant to move laundry from either the washer or dryer, though I have done it. I don't like anyone touching my things and think others may feel the same about me touching theirs. I never leave my laundry unattended for that reason.

If I did empty a dryer I would never fold it. I would be horrified to come back and find that someone had folded my laundry. That just has an ick feeling to me!

 

[sixcats]

The few times we have used the laundry rooms at Disney have aalways been interesting. I've seen campers at Fort Wilderness use 7 out of 10 washers at a time. I actually had someone ask me not to put my clothes in the empty washer on the end she she was in the process of filling a few washers at once.

The reason why we never leave the room once we start the dryer is beause of rude guests. At least three times we have had people open our dyers to check if the clothes are dry mid cycle and then not push the button to restart the cycle.

 

[dgaston]

True confessions: I was bad once and left my clothes in a VWL dryer. It was Superbowl and EMH at MK and the place was empty. Several other dryers were open. I was so embarrassed when I returned for my laundry and someone had folded it for me! I don't think I can ever again not be there when the load is finishing. Laundry etiquette is tough.

 

[AllyBri]

I don't do laundry on vacation, but if I did I would wait the 15 minutes and then remove the others laundry. I would never fold it.
I also would never leave the laundry area.
OP sounds like she did the right thing in my op.

 

[Sammie]

Any time you leave the laundry area you run the risk of problems.