To wash at home, or not? We made the decision!
In my current apartment, my roommate and I opted to save money by not getting a washing machine. Our theory was that we’d wash our clothes whenever we went home in hopes that the times where we had to wash in our complex would be few enough that’d we’d save money over buying our own washer. As I’m sure you can imagine, it was a solid plan in theory, but it hasn’t worked out well in practice. One of our “to-do’s” if there is such a thing for two grad-student males, is to get a washer/dryer.
We’ve been looking towards getting a used one, which hopefully we could preface with the phrase gently, or like-new, but either way – you better believe that when we get one we’re going to save every penny possible to have made that purchase a smart one. So, I was excited to see the post by Henry over at Binary Dollar on “How to Save Money on Laundry.” It’s worth the read if you’re an undomesticated male like me. I don’t want to steal Henry’s thunder, but honestly the only two on his list that I would have thought of as to buy detergent in bulk and to buy generic. Thank goodness my mother doesn’t read this blog!
