I'm blessed now to have my own, but remember well having to spend about $20 to do full laundry run.

It is a huge PITA! I am grateful for my own washer and dryer, too. Laundromats these days are expensive!

Every day, I give thanks for running water - my well, well pump, and water heater, too.
One old saying is “You will know the worth of water when the well runs dry”. I think there may come a time when we all need to be grateful for fresh drinking water. We take it for granted here.

My well does not do real well with a prolonged period of dry weather. Always grateful to finish a shower without the pump saver cutting the water off.

The washer's spin cycle at the end doesn't work so all the laundry comes out soaking wet, as if I'd washed it all by hand and the dryer doesn't work at all. I have a wooden drying rack and short clothesline in the basement so I can hang wet clothes to dry. But towels, sheets, blankets and the bedspread must be taken to the laundromat. I was just there yesterday.

The only good thing I can say about the laundromat is that you can do lot of loads at once. But it is expensive to wash; $4.00 for the small washer. The dryer is more reasonable, a quarter for six minutes. I initially put in enough money for 36 minutes, but sometimes I have to keep adding more quarters to get everything completely dry.

Don't get me started on some of the weird people I've seen at the laundromat. I try to go on the slower days but even then, I might see one.

A new washer and dryer are on my wish list, but not in my budget at this time.

Hope things improve for you.

Have you unplugged it for a minutes and tried running another load of wash afterwards?


Is there a local appliance repair tech in your area? In 2024 our 7 year old GE oven stopped heating up. I called a local repair tech and they discovered it was the ignitor and quoted me a price before actually replacing it. It was under $200 which is much better than replacing the entire range itself.

They do not make appliances to last these days unfortunately.

We have a 14 cubic foot Kelvinator refrigerator that we keep for extra fridge storage. I deep cleaned it recently and I found the serial and model number inside the fridge. It was manufactured in June of 1992, so it's 34 years old. It still runs and has never needed replacement parts.


*Knock on wood* I hope that I just didn't jinx this appliance because I have no idea what to replace it with if it conked out.

Bleach will kill a septic system and the last one put me out $40,000.

The laundromat is on a city sewer system.

I dry the whites at home.

A wash here is $2.50. We were forced to downsize when my now deceased husband became disabled. At least I don’t have to mow a lawn or shovel snow. The main plus is I have great neighbors that look out for each other. I do miss having a garden though.