I love doing laundry - but only if I have my own washer and dryer. The apartment complex we live in has between 40 and 50 units and only 1 washer/dryer in the basement - I'm completely creeped out by the basement set up and I refuse to go down there alone.. it doesn't help when the lights don't turn on half the time. At home, we never have dirty clothes because I'm always doing laundry - here, we let it pile up for 10 days before finally going to the laundry mat down the street tonight. It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, but still a hassle none the less. I appreciate many things about Brussels/Europe in general, this is not one.
5 Things we struggled with...
* None of the instructions were in English - we finally figured out the machines accept token coins instead of real coins
* No scooper in the powered detergent - we guessed with each load :)
* Fitting all of our clothes into teeny washers meant to hold 2 shirts and a sock
* Paying 3.30 euro PER LOAD!!! GIVE ME A BREAK - thats just to wash it!!
* Paying .50 euro to dry clothes for 9 minutes. what a crock.
20 euro, 40 pages read in my Sister's Keeper and 1 mini meltdown later, we came home loaded down with half wet clothes and a pact to do laundry at least once a week.
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Oh the joys of laundry
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Good lord... I thought I had it bad walking down the hall for $1.25 per wash. My dryer at least dries the clothes I put in it.
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