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[–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

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.

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  • [–] 55 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 weeks ago*

    Longer trips, yes. A week? You don't want to spend all that money just to spend half a day near a public Laundromat.

    You also don't know the area, don't know the laundry places, gamble on a lot of things not even knowing it works like how you think it does there.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 weeks ago

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    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...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    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

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