This is my single biggest justification for not doing my own laundry. I've run experiments.
If I take my laundry to a laundromat, run it through the washer, move it to the drier, (run it through the drier again because it isn't dry), fold and put it all away, it costs me about $12 in quarters. It also costs me two or three hours of time, where I'm pretty much stuck at the laundromat, unable to do anything really worthwhile.
If I drop the laundry off at the laundromat and have them do it for me, that wash-dry-fold service usually costs about $30. I toss it in a bag, stop at the laundromat on the way to work, then on the way home that night I stop in again and pick up bags of fresh, nicely folded laundry, with all my shirts on hangers. It's so much easier, and trading a little bit of money for time not spent doing something tedious is a big win.
I don't understand it. We've had washing machines for decades in this country. Surely USA can afford them as well. You can get a used one for nothing. Literally.
I rent, but when I moved in I still paid to replace the washer with a washer-dryer. I spend less than 5 minutes a month on washing clothes. (I have multiple laundry baskets so they're pre-sorted)
If something needs ironing I either don't buy it in the first place, or I have it dry cleaned just to get in ironed.
I don't do my taxes because I can buy an accountants time, but I can't buy more "time".
It's another reason I don't want a huge collection of "stuff". "Stuff" takes your time.
I don't have a car for this reason, and I live in a city that doesn't require one.
But the article is motivating me to be more explicit about the things that take time. To make sure I spend that time doing what I want.
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3JzcCviNDk
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