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Been washing sleeping bags from scouting and our camping (sons now in their 20's) over a number of years.

I just washed three or four sleeping bags a month ago and it was about six bucks each here in Mccandless PA area.
I have observed that the prices depend on where you go- in the pinkie finger out neighborhoods the prices were much higher.
Generally it's like Julio's Bar from Repairman Jack- the places with the dead plants in the window were generally cheaper.
 
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I use the bath tub for items too big for the washer. Cool
The hard part is wringing the water out before air drying.


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$25,000.00 installed for one of the wash machines..

Is what a gal told me.

And that laundromat had ten of them.
They looked wonderful.

Like something you would put in your $200,000.00 custom garage as a show piece.





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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
I also just checked into having it dry cleaned instead, thinking that might be an alternative option. The local dry cleaner wants $40 to clean a comforter.
Yup…I was gonna respond that a dry cleaning establishment was gonna be even more expensive than the laundromat…even if you request machine wash in lieu of dry cleaning. BTDT…



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While those prices ARE pretty pricey, I've never seen a laundromat in a location where I'm more concerned about getting robbed at the machine than in the parking lot.



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While those prices ARE pretty pricey, I've never seen a laundromat in a location where I'm more concerned about getting robbed at the machine than in the parking lot.

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You frequent the laundromats in Jackson? I don't even like driving through there at a high rate of speed. You got potable water up there now?
 
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You frequent the laundromats in Jackson? I don't even like driving through there at a high rate of speed. You got potable water up there now?


Hell no, last laundromat I was in was Dadeville, AL. Same issues. The ones here would be the same.

I'm lucky enough to live in the areas around Jackson that are supposedly responsible, indirectly, for the failure of Jackson government and utilities over the past 20-30 years due to people moving out of that shithole. I do get to visit daily for work. That's enough.



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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's funny.
 
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Originally posted by 9x18:
Why not just buy a comforter cover/duvet and wash that instead when you get it dirty?


I do have a duvet cover for it, but my large (130+ pound) dog sleeps on the bed basically all day and all night, so even with a cover the comforter inside starts to smell like dog.

Maybe I need a sacrificial blanket to put on it during the day, to at least reduce the dog funk by 50%. A cover for the cover for the comforter. Big Grin


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And how are you getting a comforter that dirty that often? It seems an unusual frequency (8 times) to me.


That'd be 8 times over a long period (years). The point was the cost of cleaning comparative to the cost of buying it in the first place.

This was the first time I've washed the comforter.


As someone owned by a 65lb pit bull who loves to be in bed with me, and my wife's two cats, who also love to be in the bed with us, we do this.

We put an extra top sheet over the bed to catch most of the fur/fluff.

We don't let them sleep with us all night, but since I now work nights, the wife lets them go to bed with her and I kick them out, and when she leaves for work, she lets them in the sleep with me until I get up in the afternoon.





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And of course, the dog got violently sick at 4:00 am, and puked on the recently cleaned comforter. Roll Eyes

I'm about ready to ditch the big fluffy comforter and just go back to my older, thinner one that's washable at home.
 
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^^^^^^^^^
Good choice.
 
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Seven bucks, they have to be kidding.
 
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Seven bucks, they have to be kidding.


Worse... That's seven-teen.

It was seventeen bucks to wash and dry one comforter.
 
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I went to a Laundromat 2 times in my life. IIRC It just took a few quarters but I hated it. The waisted time... the choking cigarette smoke that filled the place, the sketchy trailer park trash utilizing the place, I waited outside.

Before the third trip was needed I had plumbed for, bought and installed my own set in one end of my Kitchen. That was in 1973, I was 18 and I haven't been in one since.

Buying a cover you can wash yourself sounds like a good plan.



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Go to Tic Tok and search laundromat money





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Originally posted by bendable:
Go to Tic Tok


Lemme stop you right there... That's not gonna happen. Wink
 
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I am suprised they have Tik Tok in bendable's area
 
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