I've been playing with a family that has been doing their laundry at the laundromat. It's the very first time I do that, generally, I don't add the lot to my worlds and I buy them washing machines and slave myself dragging their clothes around or adding baskets in every room they mess up. Not to mention, that I kind of set up a laundry schedule and I try to find the best spot to make my sim do the laundry on the whole lot.
I've read some old topics and I wondered: how are people dealing with laundry nowadays? Do you skip it? Do you use the community lot? If you do, which lots do you prefer/suggest?
I hope the options are good enough for everyone.
Thank you! :-)
Laundromat vs. Laundry on the lot: Which do you prefer? 93 votes
I only send my sims to the laundromat.
I only have my sims do laundry at home.
It depends on the family, but I prefer the laundromat.
It depends on the family, but I prefer to get the washers.
It depends on the family; I like and use both.
I ignore the laundry system completely.
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You get good moodlets though
But seriously, I find that Nona's Superhampers, one per lot is sufficient, add a lot more orderliness to the entire laundry system. I found long ago that trying to do laundry the EA way on a super-sized lot that sleeps 50 (long story, but sort of a resort that I designed way before IP) was not a recipe for sanity, but since then most all of my residential lots except maybe very tiny ones use this system. I also find them essential in not actively played Dorms and other multi-unit living facilities where I want them to have laundry but prefer not to find the lots filled with floor to ceiling piles of dirty clothes from back to front, blocking everyone from actually doing anything or getting in and out of the front door, when I look inside or send someone over to visit.
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Now, for the laundry system to get closer to perfection, the options to "do laundry in this room" and "do laundry on this lot" should be selectable.
@cwaddell I've never tried that approach! I find maids and butlers a little disorganized when they do laundry. There's always a hamper that they forget to clean and they often forget to put the clothes in the drier.
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I may change my way of playing with the laundry system. I think it's cool to see them busy with housework.
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So, sometimes I do ignore the system
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By the way, it has been my experience that in real life there are two kinds of people. Those who say they enjoy doing laundry, and those who are telling the truth.
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I've never sent a sim to the laundry mat and only once use the clothesline to dry clothes and I don't think I stuck with that for very long.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
I went with "It depends on the family, but I prefer to get the washers" because I have a save where I placed 2 Sims on an empty lot and I have them digging through the trash dumpsters and raiding the junkyard for things that they can either keep for themselves or sell. So if I want them to have clean clothes, they get sent to the laundromat if I remembered to place one in the world that they're living in...
Then I have saves where I might place them in a small house such as the one in Bridgeport that's across the river from the city and place a cheap washer in the house and clothesline outside. Or like my save where I built a log cabin farmstead and have a washer in the house while they have a clothesline outside...
And then there are saves where I will buy both, a washer and dryer and maybe a clothesline to use doing the spring/summer days...
So it just depends on what kind of story that I'm doing at the time that makes me decide whether I want washer/dryers/clothesline or use the laundromat...
I once made my own laundromat where I placed a claw machine and an arcade machine in there as well as a counter with a coffee/drink machine on it. And then I made a gas station/mechanic garage on the same lot with it...
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As for my sims, I did send them to the laundromat once, long ago when I first began playing with Ambitions. But I didn't have them do any laundry there, because they couldn't afford it. By the time they can afford to throw away that much money a couple times a week, they can afford to have their own washing machine and clothesline. I do use the clotheslines, but my sims who have them usually get a dryer too, when they can afford it, for when the weather doesn't permit hanging clothes outside - not that it actually makes a difference in the game, but that's one of the things I insist on doing realistically. And until my sims can afford a washer, clothesline, and at least one hamper, that one being one of Nona Mena's super hampers, they don't do laundry at all.
I do put the laundromat in some of my towns, though, mostly for a potential place for my sims to meet other sims - not that I've ever sent them there to do that, but....
I do enjoy doing laundry in RL. That´s actually not a lie.
I never iron, though.
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My assessment about those who love to do laundry IRL was of course not meant to be taken seriously. I may not understand you folks entirely, but I acknowledge your existence.
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What? Yes, of course my sims take showers sometimes... really, they do, I promise. Wait, why are all of you backing away from them?
Has anyone set up a laundromat on a lot not marked as one? I did that once; I added an underground laundromat at Appaloosa Plains Salon and my sims paid and got the moodlets anyway. The combo Arcade + Laundromat sounds interesting, too. I might add that idea to Twinbrook.
Speaking of RL, I don't bother to do laundry, I agree when IreneSwift says that it's the machine that does the hard part. On the other hand, just like Waterdragon, I never iron, either. I don't even own an ironing board or the iron itself. XD
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