What I Hate Most...

about living in an apartment. When you're laundry isn't quite dry but you are out of quarters...<sigh>

That would suck! I remember when I lived in an apartment back in 1984 (I had just graduated from high school) and I had to use the coin operated laundry there...and one time I went to get my laundry out of the washer, and someone had thrown a whole bunch of chicken bones in with it!!! YUK!!! I was mad!

I guess I am lucky. I live in an apartment and we have a washer dryer hook up. I don't know what I would do with out it. I wash clothes all the time.

Chicken bones?? Yuk! What would possess someone to do that? For me, I hate spending 10 minutes trying to thread a needle, only to find I'm trying to thread the wrong end! Did I mention I'm as blind as a bat?
Diann in Australia

:laughing: Diann - Join the club!! Before I got my contact lenses, I'd be waiting at the bus stop, see a big vehicle coming, stick my arm out to stop it, only to find it was a lorry or truck - certainly NOT a bus!!! :laughing2
And Debby - EEEWWWW!!!! Thats gross!! Did you ever find out who did it!?!?
Thats must suck to nto have a washer/dryer, my machine is going all the time.. trouble is, it makes alot of ironing... unfortunately I dropped the iron this weekend, so its now broken and doesn't work.... what a shame...:goodbad:

Hey, Bodlover - what's an "iron"?

Debby - I had someone throw in black tar in my whites (in the drier) Everything was ruined, including the underpad for my bed! Of course the apartment management didn't care.

Cindy, you know, I'm not really sure!! - For me, its just something that lives on top of my fridge - I don't even know how it got there?!?!?! :LOL: :LOL:

**Tries to force a few quarters through the CD-ROM slot** Here...er... Well I guess that won't work but if I could give you some quarters I would.

LOL-Debby I can only imagine your face when you found the chicken bones!! The odd things that some people do.

When I was 12 I lived in a small apartment with my mom, bother and sister... And stepdad. We didn't have a washer or dryer so my mom and I would make a girls night out trip to do laundry. It was a fun way to spend time w/my mom but during the summer my stepsister would tag along sometimes and she wouldn't wear deodorant. Imagine being stuck in a car in 80 degree weather, no a/c and in the backseat was someone who wouldn't wear deodorant. Gag!!

When I lived in New York we lived in an apartment. I hated when this happened. I used to use my hair dryer. Or hang up clother all over my apartment and trun up the heat. Heat was included in my rent.

:LOL: I can't believe that you used a hair dryer! :LOL: My arm would fall off by the time I was done drying one shirt. I hate going to the laundromat, so I'm glad that we have a washer and dryer in our building.

I remember when I was younger, sometimes our washer or dryer would break, so we would have to load up our laundry baskets and walk 3 blocks to the laundromat. I felt so stupid walking down the street with my laundry and people would stare at me with a weird look. Oh well, at least it was good exercise.

What WE used to do (I don't condone it now!)

Put your quarter in a pantyhose, drop it down the coin slot (the dryer will start)

Pull your quarter out!

Free dry clothing!!!!

I was a bad bad kid!

Wish I knew this trick when I had to use the pay w/d!! Of course it cost us $6.00 a load between washing/drying and heaven forbid you had to put another $2.50 in to continue drying!!!
We moved into our own home and we have a front loader w/d!

$6.00!!!!!!!

wow...... I WOULD condone the quarter trick if it cost that much!!!

They ripped us so bad ;( Plus 8 apts shared ONE w/d. And some of those ppl had their friends come over to do wash. More often then not your clothes would be WET, someone would take them out of the dryer and use your time. Landlord didnt care... if you didnt SEE someone doing it, she wouldnt help you.

I use my hair dryer when it's cold and I want to warm up a pair of socks befor putting them on! Mmmmm just like warm from the dryer!

The Tar in the dryer reminds me of my ex who was a roofer. his clothes were always covered in tar and he would just throw them into the washer and dryer at the laundry mat. I would try to make sure the clothes were inside out so they wouldn'y leave tar on the inside of the dryers.

Chicken bones!! That IS gross!

Many many years ago when I was really broke I had to wash my sons diapers by hand. Two dozen diapers every night! Now that is yucky!!!

I have a washer and dryer that is currently holding up a bunch of boxes in a storage facility. That really makes me mad every week when I have to load up my laundry and go elbow my way through a bunch of drunk Marines and construction workers to get my laundry done. The laundry I go to has a bar in it, so they all go there instead of on base. I dropped off one load Saturday because I had a bunch of stuff to do and really needed just some work clothes done. It cost me $10.12!!! One load! I won't be doing that again.

Yesterday, I asked my boyfriend to bring all the dirty laundry down stairs so I could do it and do a couple of other chores like take the trash out ect. I went out for breakfast and a cup of joe and when I came back the laundry was sitting in the living room.! But that's not all kids ! I had asked him to put the clean laundry from 2 weeks ago away and it was all in with the dirties! He was no where to be found! He went to a bar to watch football! So from now on he does his own laundry and ironing! Ha!

I'm not a spiteful person........ but that would piss me off!
(pardon my French!)

I might have to find out who is was and do something mean!~

opps... the bleach spilled on your jeans..... soooo sorry!

An apartment complex I lived in a few years ago had a laundry room for everyone. One day I put my laundry in, and went back an hour later to put it in the dryer. All of my towels were gone. I was so mad! When I thought back, I realized several articles of clothing had also gone missing over several months. I made sure to stick real close to the laundry after that. Can you imagine? Someone actually went through a load of laundry to pick out the towels.

I don't know what I would have done if I found chicken bones in my clothes. That is so gross!