{"id":3474,"date":"2018-09-11T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2018-09-13T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:57:30","slug":"why-is-laundry-so-darn-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/11\/why-is-laundry-so-darn-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is laundry so darn expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3466\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091118-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3466\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091118-6-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"Why is laundry so darn expensive? The machines are quite small as well. Who can I talk to to change this.\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091118-6-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091118-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091118-6-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091118-6.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why is laundry so darn expensive? The machines are quite small as well. Who can I talk to to change this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I sympathize with the human necessity of clothing and its care. Residential Life, who oversees the laundry machines in campus housing says $1.75 per wash or dry ($3.50\/load) is comparable to most college laundry machine costs, and less expensive than most local laundromats. The machines are not industrial-sized, but they are normal-household-machine-sized. If you would like to advocate for different machines or laundry services, contact the Quality of Student Life Committee:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-QSLC\">bit.ly\/BC-QSLC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sympathize with the human necessity of clothing and its care. Residential Life, who oversees the laundry machines in campus housing says $1.75 per wash or dry ($3.50\/load) is comparable to most college laundry machine costs, and less expensive than most local laundromats. The machines are not industrial-sized, but they are normal-household-machine-sized. If you would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/11\/why-is-laundry-so-darn-expensive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is laundry so darn expensive?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-laundry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}