Wash and fold-Is it frugal?
cro...@ymoctl.com
taking my laundry to the dry cleaners for wash and fold. They charge 75
cents a pound and I normally have about 6 pounds. Factoring in the time
saved I consider this to be frugal.
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> many people confuse being frugal with being a cheapskate, if something
> or a service is of value to you spending money on it is not unfrugal
The flip side of that is when compulsive spenders deride genuine
frugality as being "cheap."
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Rod Speed
> cro...@ymoctl.com wrote
> many people confuse being frugal with being a cheapskate, if something
> or a service is of value to you spending money on it is not unfrugal
Yes it is if there is another more frugal way of getting the same result.
The obvious alternative is to add a washer and dryer.
"c ro...@ymoctl.com
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The value of the service depends on your particular lifestyle.
Apparently time is a value to you.
People who have more time and do not mind the work wash and hand dry
their own clothes.
In some countries it is illegal to hang your clothes up on a balcony.
It is likely that the manufacturers and vendors of drying machines
bribed politicians to pass this law so people would be forced to buy
dryers.
This is a side point about how frugality is often prevented by
commercial interests.
Rod Speed
There is still the other obvious alternative, laundromats etc.
Rod Speed
> crow...@ymoctl.com wrote
>> I live in an apartment with no washer or dryer, Recently I have
>> been taking my laundry to the dry cleaners for wash and fold.
>> They charge 75 cents a pound and I normally have about 6
>> pounds. Factoring in the time saved I consider this to be frugal.
> The value of the service depends on your particular lifestyle.
> Apparently time is a value to you.
> People who have more time and do not mind the work wash and hand dry their own clothes.
> In some countries it is illegal to hang your clothes up on a balcony.
> It is likely that the manufacturers and vendors of drying machines bribed
> politicians to pass this law so people would be forced to buy dryers.
Mindless conspiracy theory. They just dont like the look of it.
Its legal to dry the clothes inside if you want to.
> This is a side point about how frugality is often prevented by commercial interests.
No it isnt, you're welcome to dry the clothes inside if you want to do that.
Melissa
<cro...@ymoctl.com> wrote in message
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Is that per week? That's $18 a month...it sounds like a deal to me,
especially if they are nearby and you don't have to go out of your way to
drop off and pick up your items. It's hardly extravagant IMO. The time and
money spent for you to wash them yourself at the laundry mat would cost
more.
Melissa
George Grapman
of not having to sit around a laundromat.
Rod Speed
> Melissa wrote
>> <cro...@ymoctl.com> wrote
>>> I live in an apartment with no washer or dryer, Recently I have
>>> been taking my laundry to the dry cleaners for wash and fold. They charge 75 cents a pound and I normally have about
>>> 6 pounds.
>>> Factoring in the time saved I consider this to be frugal.
>> Is that per week? That's $18 a month...it sounds like a deal to me,
>> especially if they are nearby and you don't have to go out of your
>> way to drop off and pick up your items. It's hardly extravagant IMO.
>> The time and money spent for you to wash them yourself at the
>> laundry mat would cost more.
> I used to do the same thing at one time. Well worth the convenience of not having to sit around a laundromat.
But hardly frugal.
Goomba
through the dry cleaner procedure instead!
If I didn't have a washer/dryer, and it was cost that much for wash and
fold service I'd be doing it too. My time is worth a lot. Yours might
not be?
Rod Speed
> Rod Speed wrote
>> George Grapman <sfge...@paccbell.net> wrote
>>> Melissa wrote
>>>> <cro...@ymoctl.com> wrote
>>>>> I live in an apartment with no washer or dryer, Recently I have
>>>>> been taking my laundry to the dry cleaners for wash and fold.
>>>>> They charge 75 cents a pound and I normally have about 6 pounds.
>>>>> Factoring in the time saved I consider this to be frugal.
>>>> Is that per week? That's $18 a month...it sounds like a deal to me,
>>>> especially if they are nearby and you don't have to go out of your
>>>> way to drop off and pick up your items. It's hardly extravagant
>>>> IMO. The time and money spent for you to wash them yourself at the
>>>> laundry mat would cost more.
>>> I used to do the same thing at one time. Well worth the convenience of not having to sit around a laundromat.
>> But hardly frugal.
> It sure sounds reasonably frugal to me.
More fool you.
> He could be sending it all through the dry cleaner procedure instead!
Or he could use a laundromat instead.
> If I didn't have a washer/dryer, and it was cost that much for wash and fold service I'd be doing it too.
But its hardly frugal.
> My time is worth a lot.
Easy to claim.
val189
75 a pound? Ya got a good thing goin'. Of course, you DO have to
make a second trip there to pick it up....hope it's on the way to and
form work.
Lou
"val189" <gweh...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Seems to me that while they are washing and folding, ya gotta be wearing
something else. Stop by once a week, drop off that week's laundry and pick
up last week's. No second trips needed.