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How To Do Your College Laundry in 24 Easy Steps

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Northeastern chapter.
  1. Realize that you’re running out of good underwear and clean sweaters.

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2. Grab that huge pile of laundry from your cheap hamper and get sorting (Pro-tip: typically clothes are separated into colors and whites here).

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3. Realize that you definitely don’t have enough laundry to do two separate loads.

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4. Toss random clothing items from your closet to make it seem like a bigger load (because you have to get your money’s worth, damn it).

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5. See that you’re slowly but surely running out of laundry detergent but casually putting off buying more for later because you *probably* have more important things to do, right?

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6. Haul your stuff to the dorm’s closest laundry facilities only to see that all ten machines are full.

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7. Sit there with your phone patiently waiting for one to finish.

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8. Notice that a machine is actually finished with its cycle but someone hasn’t taken their clothes out yet.

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9. Decide that you don’t have time to sit and wait all day.

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10. Proceed to take the clothes out of the machine and fill it with yours.

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11. Add a seemingly acceptable amount of detergent, turn on the machine, and set your phone timer so your clothes also don’t get passively aggressively removed.

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12. Leave facilities and return after half an hour to remove all your washed clothes.

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13. See the person whose clothes you removed putting their now wet clothes into the dryer and avoid eye contact to avoid confrontation.

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14. Wait by a random washing machine to make it look like you are waiting for your clothes so they don’t know that you took their clothes out of the machine.

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15. Watch the person leave and sigh in relief.

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16. Proceed to put your washed clothes into the dryer… only to realize you don’t have drying sheets.

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17. Question what the purpose of a drying sheet is.

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18. Decide that you don’t need such extra things in your life and just turn on the damn drying machine.

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19. Wait for what feels like two years before your laundry is finished.

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20. …And your pants are still damp.

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21. Whatever, you’ll just blow-dry them with a hairdryer.

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22. Stuff all your now clean clothes back in your cheap hamper only to notice that it seems like your clothes have grown larger in the past couple of hours???

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23. Bring all your clothes back to your place, put an episode of Friends on, and get folding!

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24. You have mastered the art of laundry. Now go forth living your life with clean clothes!

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