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I tried washio within the last 2 months for the first time. It was much harder than using a neighborhood laundromat IMO.

I scheduled for it to be picked up and had to wait 2 days, versus the neighborhood folks who do it same day.

I paid $100 to do the laundry (plus a $15 recommended tip). I was expecting it to be cheap since I had a coupon but was blown away. I didn't do the math to estimate the costs going in. My SO and I, I guess, had a ton of laundry.

All in all, it's expensive and not a wonderful/magical experience. It serves a fairly basic need and with the price I paid, after 2-3 trips, it is cheaper for me to buy my own washer and dryer in no time.

I can now use this as a "look I was right" to my SO, because after I got the bill I said "they are going to go out of business with these prices".

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> I paid $100 to do the laundry (plus a $15 recommended tip). I was expecting it to be cheap since I had a coupon but was blown away. I didn't do the math to estimate the costs going in. My SO and I, I guess, had a ton of laundry.

That is bonkers expensive. At my old place in Somerville, MA (not exactly a cheap place to live), $100 would be four large hampers full of laundry and my shirts would be pressed.

Of course, it's not a VC-backed startup, just an actual business, so it's not cool.

>>At my old place in Somerville, MA (not exactly a cheap place to live), $100 would be four large hampers full of laundry and my shirts would be pressed.

Was the before, or after the 10% Tufts discount though? If you're below 35, you gotta pretend you forgot your ID, and take that sweet sweet discount. Same for the Sushi place that's right next to the Tufts-discount laundry place.

In other (totally irrelevant) news from current-Somerviller to (past?) Somerviller: area around Davis has gotten almost on par with Harvard Square prices (in terms of rent). Things are crazy around here!

You're thinking of the place in Powder House Square, but they don't do pickup. (Also, Yoshi's was a regular lunch spot when I worked from home.) Teele Square Laundromat does pickup/delivery and was my go-to. I wouldn't have used the discount anyway, though; I don't need ten percent off and they work much harder than I do.

Somerville's prices are disgusting, as is most of the area--I just moved to Malden, where I've got a really nice 2BR that isn't in a falling-apart house for about two-thirds of what I'd have paid in Somerville or Cambridge. And I'm actually a touch closer to downtown Boston for when I want to go out...I thought I'd be sacrificing something I cared about to move here, but nope.

Yeah that's insane. We use a local one here in SF (Sudzee) though it also can take a day or two to pick up and a day or two to return, and on weekends that's a bummer. And it costs $45 each time for over 40lbs of laundry.

I miss my days of $12 wash and fold in Brooklyn :-/

Before I flew back home from NYC (a 24-hour+ odyssey), I had my stuff laundered at some shop local to where I was staying. It was pricey for a backpacker, but definitely worth it - it came back so neatly squared off and pressed that it was basically a small brick of laundry and packing was a breeze :)

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