Darn European washing machines/dryers!!!

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The washer is full if you can't stuff anything else in I often wondered who would ever weigh their clothes before washing them.

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In Basel there is a Barber's shop that is also a Bar ... it has a terribly witty name .. something like "Bar-Bier" or some such ...

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you've made my day as for the past three weeks in our new apartment i've had the washing blues...

we had our own machines- great ones bought second hand at an amazing price and could do all the laundry we wanted when we wanted. now, in our new apartment- no washing allowed in apartments so we have to sign up-one spot left, monday mornings from 7 to 12. not perfect for a working couple with children.

my friends in the states laughed when i told them how i had to request to change my work schedule (i'm a teacher!!!) to come in later on mondays just so i could do my laundry. thank goodness they understood ( ) and i got the change made but all this for a few hours a week to wash some of what we need to, but not all...

grrr...that felt good- thanks!

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I don't put fabric softener in towels. I do toss a little putzessig (washing vinegar) in with the soap.

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There's something we're not being told here.

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And I thought I was the only one who does that...

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You are.

That was simply a film.

Don't worry. It's just a phase.

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That's what they said about the stuffed-animal humping.

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I know this is Off Topic - or is it??? - but you do that as well?

I think you need to book a session at Dr Max's Institute of Corrective Behaviours.

First session free. English Spoken. PM for details...

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Oh shite. This isn't the Humpers Anonymous forum?

PM sent.

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ding ding ding ding. we have a winner!

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I can just see it now, the EF Laundry Cafe.

One section would have the machines, then a restaurant, and finally, a kiddie play area.

Our laundry room at home is fitted with lots of lines and a wall dryer. Many apartment buildings have these machines in their drying rooms. When we bought the house there was no tumble dryer at all.

The wall dryers are great as the laundry dries needing little ironing.

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yeah, that is what I do. If I can't get my hand back out after stuffing the stuff in, I take a few items back out and free my stuck appendage Just making sure there wasn't a law about weighing things first!

I can't imagine having a slot to do laundry. That sound like a violation of human rights of some sort. Isn't there an organization one could turn to? I would have to have my own and get one of those that you can fit in your bathroom or something!

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I don't know how you calculate your time.

Open the basket

Take the clothes out

Separate them by white, color(2) delicate, towels, bed sheets(3)= +/- 8 loads

Put one load in the machine

Put the gel in, program the machine, press start.

Take the clothes out of the machine and separate what goes in the drier or not. Put an other load in the machine, gel and press start.

Hang the clothes.

Repeat the whole process for every load.

It can take easily a whole day of washing clothes.

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The only solution is to get an apartment/house where you're allowed your own washing machine.

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Haha, funny that this topic showed up right now, I'm on a longer trip to the US and yesterday had to do my first laundry outside of Europe... Well, how can US people live with the washing mashines that display "cold", "warm", "hot" instead of 40, 60, 90 degrees C? O_o And this strange agitating thing in the middle of the mashine made me worried about my shirts for all the time the laundry was being done... And then, no place to hang the clothes outside, even though it's 30 degrees C and they would dry quickly and smell great afterwards? How can anyone say that _this_ is better? I really do miss European washing machines, and even the Swiss ones that habitate deep dungeons and demand sacrifices on your working schedule.

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I don't know where you are but all the Americans I know dry their clothes outside too.

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And I don't know any who have done so since the 1960s!

Tom

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I was there last year and i saw it. Maybe you should go back? It changed since 1960!

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Well they obviously don't libe in areas where it is illegal... (and there are some...)