Is that this how you love to
spend time? Me neither.
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Christian Senger
Within my neighborhood, I frequently see trucks double-parked using the
engines running, filled with clean laundry and freshly-pressed dry
cleaning.
Delivery services make sense within the city, where a vacation to
the laundry mat means lugging heavy bags of dirty clothes lower the
street.
As Business Insider’s Libby Kane discovered, delivery also saves
you time: at
least 80 minutes, if you are lucky and do not have to watch for
machines to be shown.
However I always assumed that having to pay another person to complete my laundry
would be a luxury which i could not afford.
And So I was intrigued to discover that Delivery.com had added a brand new
feature that enables you to definitely make a price comparison for laundry pickup and
delivery where you live.
If you have used Delivery.com to buy food, alcohol, or groceries,
you know the drill: key in your address and a summary of
stores and restaurants will appear, plus a rating.
Laundry and dry cleaning work exactly the same way.
The "price compare" button
instantly sorts laundromats in your town by
cost.
Delivery.com
To obtain a cost estimate, clicking on "Price Compare" at the very top
from the page.
Then you definitely click the icons for what you ought to get dry cleaned
(for example, three shirts and two pants), or go into the
total weight of the items you will be delivering out for wash-and-fold.
I had been shocked through the variation in prices in my Brooklyn
neighborhood. My rough guess was which i had 10 pounds of
laundry, and also the estimates ranged from $8 to $87.50. Most fell in
the $20-$30 range.
As I will not go with either the least expensive or even the most
costly alternative (the $8 laundry service includes a one-star
rating), Used to do observe that there have been reasonable options that
fell in the centre.
Within my neighborhood, prices
for laundry ranged from $8 to in excess of $80.
Delivery.com
For example, one laundry mat having a five-star rating charges $10
while offering totally free. Usually, doing my very own laundry costs $5
every week (by means of quarters that I have hoarded within an empty
jam jar), so having to pay yet another $5 for convenience appears worth
it.
I’ve not accepted yet. However I suspect that when I start
to delegate this straightforward but tiresome task, it will likely be much like
Business Insider’s Jacqui Kenyon stated:
I’ll never return.
Resourse: http://businessinsider.com/
This machine folds your laundry
COMMENTS:
beyondthetech: Why only show the same piece of clothing folded? Would’ve appreciated seeing different types and sizes done, unless that was just all CGI.
Peter Austin: I want a machine to do the ironing. I need creases in my socks.
Phanha Koeun: Man I worry for people in the future how lazy can we be
Serge Van Oudenhove: Shut up and take my money 😉
Tia Torch: Can it do the laundry? That would be a machine to have
CrazySadie B: people are just either not learning how to fold or just being straight up LAZY like if you agree
Aws: The clipping is too much work. I wanna dump it all in a container. Get to work people.
Raskal: It’s cool when people get excited from ugly CGi. Imagine the reaction if this was nice CGi.
meme lord: 80% of the footage is the same same clip over and of again…?
Winnie Chen: It’s called not being lazy
Eric T: I don’t believe it at all
Ryan M (IG: surf_and_trf): Millions of grown men living in their parents basement rejoice…
slmnkh: what if a button or some stitching gets stuck?
elektro3000: $850? I’d give them a kidney for this.
Amanda Adams: Ew… perfume? That would gunk up the insides.
Jason Morello: Yea great for shirts but what about pants, boxers, socks, bed sheets, pillow cases ect…. Unless this machine could do all that it will never sell to the masses.