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Ask HN: How do you do laundry?

by magicjosh on 4/29/23, 3:14 PM with 19 comments

• by LinuxBender on 4/29/23, 3:17 PM

  How do you do laundry?

  I drink a can of Monster, put on some heavy metal and then fold aggressively.

  Can I get a folding robot?

  Probably if cost is not a limiting factor. Baxter [1] and others could probably be taught how to fold clothes. Baxter is said to be around $22K. It's probably cheaper to hire someone unless one was folding clothes non-stop.

  [1] - https://robots.ieee.org/robots/baxter/

• by metadat on 4/29/23, 11:16 PM

  Find and secure a partner who likes doing laundry and gets mad if you try to help.

  I still feel guilty, even though I help in many other ways.

• by fogzen on 4/29/23, 3:34 PM

  Reduce the laundry you need to do. I only own three outfits. Hand washing a single outfit every day takes less than 10 minutes. Costs nothing. Hang dry. No folding.

• by mrks_ on 4/30/23, 2:26 AM

  Try the Trofast Laundry System https://twitter.com/hellobasak/status/1646950403911589893

• by PaulHoule on 4/29/23, 3:19 PM

  Robot folding is an active research area, see

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16898

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00323

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02832

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10149

• by runjake on 5/1/23, 3:57 PM

  I don't. My wife (a mother and homemaker) does it all. I should show her more appreciation for having clean clothes magically appear in my dresser.

  Back in the day, you could take your bags of laundry to a laundry service and pay very little to have them washed and folded. If you're financially-comfortable, tip generously.

  Laundry robots and lifehacks sound too complicated.

• by dazc on 4/29/23, 3:36 PM

  First world problem but I get the point, it's a chore but chores by their definition are supposed to be 'chores'.

  Personally, it was the time sink that bothered me so I bought a washer and drier to put in my office. It is still a slight inconvenience but doesn't eat into my leisure time as it did before.

  If you don't have a private office then, as comment below, you can simply pay someone at the laundry place to do it of you.

• by 8b16380d on 5/1/23, 4:35 PM

  Wash clothes by type (delicates, light, darks, etc). Dry immediately after washing finishes. Fold immediately after drying is done. Repeat n-times until all laundry is complete. Scales moderately well with family size.

• by yuppie_scum on 4/29/23, 5:11 PM

  Adulting is hard, isn’t it? Yes, if you have more money than time you should just get a laundromat to do it.

• by andyjohnson0 on 4/30/23, 2:05 PM

  Accept that it's a chore and it's ok not to like doing it, but also that you're an adult and it still needs doing. So promise yourself a reward when its done, then power on and jfdi.

• by swah on 5/1/23, 10:18 AM

  Laundry is ok but folding and ironing... luckily remote work also helped with that!

• by qup on 4/29/23, 3:27 PM

  You can just drive it to a laundromat and have them do it. It's not really that expensive.

• by pjacotg on 5/1/23, 6:42 AM

  I listen to podcasts while doing domestic tasks!

• by frontman1988 on 4/29/23, 6:46 PM

  No laundry as a service app at your place?

• by VoodooJuJu on 5/1/23, 2:30 AM

  I got a girlfriend.