Board 8 > Just now I needed to do some quick laundry at home.

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We barely ever use the laundry room on the premises. So I find the card for the machine and take it to the landlord's office to check the balance and add money if necessary. They tell me that I need to get a new card from the machine since they changed types (even though it's a card made by the same company.) I don't get one for free for living there. It's $5. I pay the machine for the card, and it comes preloaded with $3.50. Washer and dryer are each $1.79 a load, so that's enough for one or the other, not both. So I have to put another $5 on. If I want a refund for the balance on the old card, I have to mail it in, and there's no way of knowing in advance how much money is on it because the new machine doesn't read it and the amount isn't accessible in the company's database or anything; it's actually in a chip inside the card. So I guess I'll mail it and get a very small check eventually.
tl;dr I basically paid $10 to wash a few items of clothing.
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hooray for having my own washer and dryer
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just get a propane powered dryer and put it in your apartment

cuts your bill in half
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^ Hank: Propane is a gas that requires *respect*. You can't just let any old Jackass use it.
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I don't think they'd let us install one. Some of the units have them but ours has old plumbing or some such issue.
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yeah, my apartment I'm pretty sure has a clause in the lease saying no installing washers/dryers

but the laundry room lets you swipe a credit card direct so you don't have to bother with laundry cards (unless you want to)
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Yeah, I have a similar system where I live. However the preloaded $3.50 would have been enough for a full load here
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