tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994184565179509795.post4606224391314191925..comments2023-10-21T06:01:17.592-07:00Comments on College Cooking Crash Course: Other College Expenses: Now Laundry?Frugal Scholarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696815672500452503noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994184565179509795.post-37885956620445733492010-08-16T06:39:24.196-07:002010-08-16T06:39:24.196-07:00What!? The school gets a cut from ripping off the ...What!? The school gets a cut from ripping off the students? <br /><br />Hm... I wonder how much the Great Desert University (granddaddy of all rippers-off of students) rakes off bookstore sales....Funny about Moneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13188173788063351801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994184565179509795.post-54654936418940362152010-08-10T17:26:41.528-07:002010-08-10T17:26:41.528-07:00I don't think most people realize how heavy la...I don't think most people realize how heavy laundry is. <br /><br />The service is also available to faculty!!! And they will do your dry cleaning, for an extra fee. <br /><br />The school does get a cut of all this, so, in that sense, it's not totally terrible.Frugal Scholarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12696815672500452503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994184565179509795.post-35478803513614448202010-08-10T08:10:26.525-07:002010-08-10T08:10:26.525-07:00o dear o dear o dear! What price laziness?
Let&#...o dear o dear o dear! What price laziness?<br /><br />Let's see. Ponying up six or eight hundred bucks is going to save you 120 hours over a nine-month period. Just think of how much studying you could get done while sitting in the laundromat during those 120 hours! <br /><br />By golly, frugality will make you an A student.<br /><br />When I was a young wife and truly, truly hating many aspects of married life, I had the idea of consigning our clothes to a laundromat whose proprietor, for like fees, would do the washing for his customers. This sounded so much better than hauling basketsful of laundry up and down the concrete steps (on which I had fallen one day while bearing heavy bags of groceries and had damn near broken a foot) and so much better than having to sit around the dirty, un-airconditioned apartment-house laundry room that it almost made sense. Almost.<br /><br />I tried it.<br /><br />Holy mackerel! Ten pounds of laundry is <i>nothing</i>. It'll barely cover a woman's nylon undies. A pair of blue jeans -- <i>one</i> pair -- can weigh almost five pounds. If your man wears jeans or khakis, you'll soon find yourself paying for thirty pounds of laundry a week.<br /><br />After the first and last experiment, in which the cost ballooned to a bill three or four times what I estimated, I never hired anyone to do my laundry again.Funny about Moneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13188173788063351801noreply@blogger.com