Can you explain to me why doing laundry is not a thing for many people on vacation? Why hurl a giant suitcase of clothing instead of a few pieces you wash every couple of days? Never made sense to me.
My last trip was to a foreign country, 2nd world country. I brought enough clothes for half the trip, and did laundry in the sink with locally sourced soap. Hung them in the room to dry 🤷♂️
Hotel laundry was prohibitively expensive, though I suppose I could’ve found a Laundromat 🤔
At any rate, the towards the end of the trip we stayed somewhere with a washing machine, so we all did a load and hung them on the drying rack.
Clean clothes are important. Sometimes, MAYBE, I’ll go three days on a shirt. But only for work, because I work mostly alone and don’t sweat much or at all most days. But if I do? Or it gets dirty? New shirt.
In my normal life it’s similar, I can MAYBE get two days from a shirt in the spring fall winter, but not summer. One and done.
Same with showers, MAYBE two days, I’ve done three in a pinch but it’s gross. Gotta wash yourself every day. Can’t believe people who don’t.
I’m busy doing shit I don’t wanna wait around for laundry. Plus I’ve only once had access to a laundry room I trusted to not have stuff stolen out of it; we specifically planned for it because it was three weeks and we needed somewhere to do laundry at the halfway mark
Costs? In most hotels, doing laundry is really expensive per piece. In some apartments having a washing machine, you have to pay per load and sometimes the washer/energy, too.
So, packing for a few days extra mostly is just question of cost vs. comfort?
But yeah, asked myself the same question packing a big suitcase for the last vacation…
Currently on a longer vacay, was able to do laundry at a friend’s near the beginning as planned, but two countries later I’m currently in a laundromat desert at a hotel near an airport.
So it’s not really something you can rely on being able to do, unfortunately.
Edit: Just sink washed some things that should get me through the rest of the week after seeing that idea in the responses. Now it just rained, so fingers-crossed the clothes dry faster than they get the wet-mold smell
Can you explain to me why doing laundry is not a thing for many people on vacation? Why hurl a giant suitcase of clothing instead of a few pieces you wash every couple of days? Never made sense to me.
Because vacation is often camping or staying in a hotel. And there aren’t reasonably-priced laundry facilities in either place
But sure, if you have a washing machine in the place you’re staying… Even then, washing every couple of days feels excessive.
But I’m not the one packing 32 shirts either
My last trip was to a foreign country, 2nd world country. I brought enough clothes for half the trip, and did laundry in the sink with locally sourced soap. Hung them in the room to dry 🤷♂️
Hotel laundry was prohibitively expensive, though I suppose I could’ve found a Laundromat 🤔
At any rate, the towards the end of the trip we stayed somewhere with a washing machine, so we all did a load and hung them on the drying rack.
Clean clothes are important. Sometimes, MAYBE, I’ll go three days on a shirt. But only for work, because I work mostly alone and don’t sweat much or at all most days. But if I do? Or it gets dirty? New shirt.
In my normal life it’s similar, I can MAYBE get two days from a shirt in the spring fall winter, but not summer. One and done.
Same with showers, MAYBE two days, I’ve done three in a pinch but it’s gross. Gotta wash yourself every day. Can’t believe people who don’t.
i bring clothesline and sheets of laundry detergent that pack very light just need a sink or tub
Thank you for the sink-washing idea, that might have just saved my bacon, and was easier than the shower wash I was planning
I’m busy doing shit I don’t wanna wait around for laundry. Plus I’ve only once had access to a laundry room I trusted to not have stuff stolen out of it; we specifically planned for it because it was three weeks and we needed somewhere to do laundry at the halfway mark
Costs? In most hotels, doing laundry is really expensive per piece. In some apartments having a washing machine, you have to pay per load and sometimes the washer/energy, too.
So, packing for a few days extra mostly is just question of cost vs. comfort?
But yeah, asked myself the same question packing a big suitcase for the last vacation…
Seeking out a nearby laundry sounds awful.
I do laundry on travel when the location has it as an option.
Currently on a longer vacay, was able to do laundry at a friend’s near the beginning as planned, but two countries later I’m currently in a laundromat desert at a hotel near an airport.
So it’s not really something you can rely on being able to do, unfortunately.
Edit: Just sink washed some things that should get me through the rest of the week after seeing that idea in the responses. Now it just rained, so fingers-crossed the clothes dry faster than they get the wet-mold smell
Because these people evidently don’t onebag.