Laundromat Rip-Offs

Above, the laundromat at Yosemite National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

While on the road, I've rarely used RV park laundromats. That's because I plan ahead and my RV trips are of short duration (no longer than a week, usually) and do my post-travel laundry at home.

Just in case I need to use a laundromat, I do keep a handy supply of quarters. 

Debit and credit card usage is slowly creeping into laundromats. RV Travel has an article that paying by card at laundromats can lead to one being ripped off.

They begin it with:

While showman P.T. Barnum is accused of turning the phrase, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” it may be the poor fellow has been done the dirt. Barnum’s biographer has tried and tried to track down the truth, and suggests that Barnum, who was respectful of his customers, probably never said it. But one truth is known: If there’s a sucker born every minute, you can bet there are at least two con men waiting outside the delivery room for it to happen. And now it looks like folks who need to come clean at the Laundromat may be taken to the cleaners.

To read more, go here. 

Yellowstone Laundry In The Late 1800s

A friend on Facebook just passed this on.

I never heard of this before. But one cannot be too surprised, can we?

Doing Laundry While RVing

Above, the laundry room at Yosemite National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Doing laundry while out RVing is not something I look forward to doing, but sometimes, it can't be helped.

On short trips, I just put my dirty clothes in a laundry bag I keep in the motorhome and just wash them when I get home. On longer trips, such a the Great American Eclipse trip of 2017, the trip to Metropolis, Illinois in 2016 and the trip to Grand Teton National Park in 2020, I just use the campground's laundromat. I make sure I have plenty of quarters on hand just in case the park office doesn't have change or the laundry room doesn't have a change machine. This came in handy when I had to use the laundromat in Yosemite Valley.

But there are other ways to doing laundry while RVing and Do It Yourself RV has some great tips.

They begin with:

One of the best parts of RVing is leaving most of the household chores behind or at least minimizing them.  However, doing laundry while RVing can be a lot easier than you think.  We’ve put together some tips below that make doing laundry while RVing a breeze. 

To read more, go here.