Laundry tip

[Jonell]

I just wanted to throw this out there as something I do and I wish more people would also. When I put a load of laundry to wash or dry at the resort, I place a post-it note on the machine saying what time I will return to remove it from the machine (usually within 10 mins after it stops). That way if someone is waiting for a machine they will know when it will be available and I don't have to stand there and watch my clothes wash or dry. Just a thought...

 

[fluffykalie]

that all depends on the guest who comes behind you. I was doing laundry and a lady decided to take all my stuff out of the washer and throw it on another machine. I was just out side the laundry room and didn't relize it had stopped. I was so mad she came in there when I was trying to figure out if I had everything. Only because I think she heard me ranting it was at the turtle lake area at okw (the machines are free) and the door was propped open. Then told me she was going to put it in a dryer but didn't know if everything could go in the dryer. If she would have put my items in the dryer she would have wrecked a new dress I had just bought before the trip. Lesson learned don't leave laundry unattended. There was only two washers and four dryers in this laundry room. There were only four groups of people she could have asked whose laundry it was.

 

[Jonell]

I have never had anyone touch my laundry. I would be furious if anyone put my stuff in a dryers since my DH likes Tommy Bahama silk camp shirts and the dryers will wreck them also. I just feel by leaving the post it they are less likely to touch it since they know when you are coming back for it, and you can write on it "DO NOT PUT IN DRYER!!"..lol

 

[YawningDodo]

If you're going to leave unattended laundry to take up a machine, yes, you should write a note saying when you'll be back...and be prepared for someone to get fed up and move your laundry if you don't keep that promise!

that all depends on the guest who comes behind you. I was doing laundry and a lady decided to take all my stuff out of the washer and throw it on another machine. I was just out side the laundry room and didn't relize it had stopped. I was so mad she came in there when I was trying to figure out if I had everything. Only because I think she heard me ranting it was at the turtle lake area at okw (the machines are free) and the door was propped open. Then told me she was going to put it in a dryer but didn't know if everything could go in the dryer. If she would have put my items in the dryer she would have wrecked a new dress I had just bought before the trip. Lesson learned don't leave laundry unattended. There was only two washers and four dryers in this laundry room. There were only four groups of people she could have asked whose laundry it was.

Think of it from the perspective of the woman who moved your laundry, please. If you were outside the laundry room, how do you know she didn't ask whose laundry it was? And if there were only two washers in there, imagine how frustrating it would be to come in and find the machine you needed finished with its cycle but still taken up by the clothing of an absentee guest! I dealt with this all the time in the dorms in college. People would start their laundry, leave, and come back an hour or more after the cycle had finished. You bet your butt I started moving those inconsiderate people's laundry onto the top of a nearby machine whenever that happened! If you leave your things in a washer or dryer and leave the room, the next person to come along has no way of knowing where you've gone or when you'll come back, and it is simply not reasonable to expect them to wait on you or go searching for you when they don't even know who you are. If you were in their place, how would you feel?

 

[JohnDaleswife]

I will do this. Love this tip. How much has a load gotten up to price wise to wash now?