Wifey gets out of her Jammieās and throws them in the wash me too
Put on the work clothes and put them in the
wash or the weekend clothes at days end
If itās gym day then gym clothes and/or swim suits and towels
Then we have bathroom towel change every 2 days
And bedsheets weekly
Blankets weekly but at the laundry
Laundromats are only cheaper if you do very limited loads per week, like about one a week (which is how much I wash).
If your area is charging a ton of money for water then thereās no way laundromats are cheaper the way you wash, they gotta turn a profit too.
Or thereās a leak somewhere, check for that. Toilets are the worst offender, and toilet leaks are hard to detect, and you only know by getting a bill.
I used to get water bills of 1500 every two months (which is really high for Taiwan), and then I fixed the toilet water level and now itās barely above 300. It seems my toilet was leaking water into the bowl slowly when the water level is above its default point. I set it high when I moved in because it didnāt flush well at the default level. It seems to have a mechanism that drains all water until itās at its default level, and with the toilet constantly filling it, you get the picture. I really want to replace the whole thing because I have no idea where the leaks coming from, but when I put it back to its default level the water bill went back down to 300 (and this is me sharing water with the residents upstairs).
You doing one load a day isnāt going to be cheaper at the laundromat.
We had front loading washers since the 80s!
Most folks used to have dryers but with the cost of electricity many donāt buy/use them anymore. I think in the US itās illegal to hang your washing on a line though.
Tommy how do you survive with those crazy costs. I couldnāt do it.
Got an example? the western countries I have lived in or visited dont come remotely close to being as good at trash pickup as Taiwan. By a long shot. But to be fair, taiwan is pretty much a standard nation wide with the exception of truly remote areas. Hence the praise. Many of the places I have seen abroad, namely in the west, are different in each municipality (or equivalent ). Which is why they can truly suck. But as a nation, I have yet to see or read about better than Taiwan in the developed world. Excited to learn if there are though! For me, I think the collection is pretty first rate. it is the disposal we might be more concerned about.
At least garbage trucks donāt operate at night. My sleep is constantly disrupted by dogs barking; Iāve never lived anywhere with such a concentration of canines.
When the dogs arenāt barking, the cats are fighting/copulating here. We even had a neighbor with a particularly loud parrot. (Iām not living on Tonghua Street, I swear, though it sounds like it.)
America is a lot more convenient with trash pickup though, at least in apartments. You just throw your crap in the dumpster whenever you want and once a week a truck comes and empties it.
However it is full of rats, raccoons, stray dogs, roaches, and it smells BAD.
Most apartments here do that as well, just the smaller houses turned apartments vary because they werenāt constructed for dumpsters. Usually the strata covers the disposal. Even then, Taiwan trash pickup is leagues ahead of the US, no? Nearly everyday, same with recycle.
Probably rodents, roaches etc are impossible to avoid with the high population density. Unless loads of chemicals are used. I doubt any culture is so organized and clean to avoid the super invasives entirely