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Today, I did my laundry in my dorm. After dragging 2 hampers down 4 flights of stairs, my ID card with money on it was rejected. After dragging it back upstairs, I scrounged up enough quarters from friends. 30 minutes after finally starting my laundry, I realized I forgot to add detergent. FML

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On 05/01/2009 at 5:15pm - health - by CollegeGirl (woman) - United States (Maryland)

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#1 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:47am by locasocha

sounds like my first college laundry experience....

#2 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:48am by Bitts

i think everyone has a college laundry experience. mine involved having my underwear stolen (serious. not kidding whatsoever)... bizarre, but it seems to be common for girls

#3 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:51am by doll_face

With all the delays you're going to mess up something.

#4 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:54am by 24788

at least you didn't have to pay for the laundry!

#5 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:54am by 6daysoverdue

If your clothes weren't filthy I'm sure they still came out wearable all the water used and cycles that they go through in a machine. I've done that on purpose cos I've had no detergent but then I am a dirty hippie :)

#6 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:57am by dirtyhippie

FAIL

#7 - On 05/02/2009 at 5:09am by liz1908

Learn 2 wash, woman!

#8 - On 05/02/2009 at 5:23am by Tehalon

I agree with #8. If you wanna find a husband one day you should learn to clean his clothes!

#9 - On 05/02/2009 at 5:40am by fatfaceunited

FAIL.
But you will be stronger carrying around your washing.

#10 - On 05/02/2009 at 5:44am by Obfuscation

Don't drink & wash!

#11 - On 05/02/2009 at 5:54am by Blanadestroyer

The only bit that's possibly your fault is forgetting to add detergent, and that is a very easy mistake to make. Half the time I try to do laundry I have to stop the machine and start over because I've forgotten to add detergent.

#12 - On 05/02/2009 at 6:25am by boatiebanter

Damn that sucks I hope I don't experience that when I go to college

&& can someone tell me what "fail" means ?

#13 - On 05/02/2009 at 6:51am by crownme

that sux. i have done that so many times.

#14 - On 05/02/2009 at 7:00am by geoffrey

seriously 13 you don't know what fail means? it means you failed. at whatever is being discussed, or life in general. i think that's pretty obvious.

community washers/dryers are awful...in my old apartment building someone once used bleach and i guess there was still a residue of it left behind or something, because several of my things wound up with bleach stains on them. makes you really appreciate when you have your own house and laundry facilities.

#16 - On 05/02/2009 at 8:06am by fretforyerlatte

#13, the term 'fail' (sometimes prefaced by 'epic', or the context of the situation, e.g in this instance 'laundry fail') is used to mock an individual for their incompetence in a particular incident or situation.

I'm such a nerd.

#17 - On 05/02/2009 at 8:11am by LuxLisbon

Fail? Yeah, quite fail. Quarters ftl.

#18 - On 05/02/2009 at 9:22am by AwesomeCakePie

I'm so glad the washers and dryers at my school are free.

#19 - On 05/02/2009 at 9:36am by obscureabyss867

Hey! Begging win!!!

My experienced advice...try not to wait until you have multiple hampers of laundry. Things can get ugly fast.

#20 - On 05/02/2009 at 9:46am by parkaypark

bad day, huh?

#21 - On 05/02/2009 at 9:59am by Treehugger

#20 has it right. waiting until you're on your last pair of clean underwear never ends well...

#22 - On 05/02/2009 at 10:53am by blushinFML

#3 sorry about that. I couldn't resist.

#23 - On 05/02/2009 at 11:06am by mattmag

I do stuff like that all the time!

#24 - On 05/02/2009 at 11:11am by pancakelover

My chem prof maintains that people use way more detergent than is actually needed. So much, in fact, that there's residual detergent left in our clothes after washing. If you wash your clothes fairly regularily and nothing was too soiled, that residual detergent should have been enough to at least get them smelling clean again.

#25 - On 05/02/2009 at 11:11am by penwords

YDI for not doing your washing more regularly.

#26 - On 05/02/2009 at 12:11pm by plethora

haha, fail

#27 - On 05/02/2009 at 12:25pm by superkid

dear #9, go die.

also OP, why didn't you leave your clothes and go upstairs by yourself to go get quarters? i doubt your dirty laundry will be stolen in less than 5 minutes.

#28 - On 05/02/2009 at 12:44pm by poison29

That happened to me a lot when I was in college. Now I ate ramen for months in order to afford my washer and dryer, but I did and dont regret because I refuse to go to laundrymats anymore..lol.

#29 - On 05/02/2009 at 12:50pm by brazillianbabe

This sounds like me forgetting to turn the water on when I use the dishwasher... lol

#30 - On 05/02/2009 at 2:04pm by ZuraLasgeon

Lol, that truly sucks.
I can understand the OP forgetting the detergent after all they went through, but for those that said they do this regularly, how do you do that? Slow down and THINK when you are doing something instead of always rushing!

#31 - On 05/02/2009 at 2:28pm by avalon24

thats happened to me before

#32 - On 05/02/2009 at 2:30pm by greensharpie

ive done that before...luckily when i was leaving i realized I forgot the detergent, and so I added it right before the water washing it into the machine turned off!

#33 - On 05/02/2009 at 3:48pm by skimmingirl

I absolutely hate doing laundry in the dorms
Hate it
stuff disappears, people steal

#34 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:16pm by Evee

YDI. Doing laundry isn't hard. I don't care if you just started college, I've been washing my own stuff since junior high. If a 14 year old can figure it out on her own SO CAN COLLEGE STUDENTS.

#35 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:22pm by missus_butter

#35: SHUT THE FUCK UP, she knows how to do the laundry you jack, if you passed reading comprehension you would see that it says that with all of the rushing she forgot to get her detergent.

#36 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:29pm by ohhhhshizzz

whooo go #36!! i agree with u!

#48 - On 07/01/2009 at 1:34pm by sockmonkey560

Sounds like something I'd do. =)

And #9, wow.

#37 - On 05/02/2009 at 6:34pm by ILoveJace01

I actually forget to add detergent pretty often. The good thing is there's usually enough residual detergent left in the line that it's not too big of a deal.

#38 - On 05/02/2009 at 6:44pm by jtizzle

How unfortunate. lol That is why you always go home when you run out of clean clothes and hopefully your mommy or daddy will do it :]

Oh and btw #9, men are fully capable of doing laundry as well.

#39 - On 05/02/2009 at 7:04pm by luckyyyme

i dont know how many times ive done that! after dragging clothes up and down stairs for an hour you just kinda forget to grab the detergent and just want to get the whole thing over with. it happens to the best of us lol

#40 - On 05/02/2009 at 8:59pm by Melodyfire

Hi Jenna

#41 - On 05/03/2009 at 12:01am by Decem

thats a fail. but got ur laundry done

#42 - On 05/03/2009 at 2:36am by fcked

LOL @ #41!

#43 - On 05/03/2009 at 12:06pm by retro_squares

uhh 39, some people actually leave home when they go to college, because, you know, they have hopes and dreams to fulfill out in the real world. not all college students have their parents to do laundry for them, idiot.

#44 - On 05/03/2009 at 1:15pm by meepmeep

It's pretty hard to do laundry when hung over, I'll attest to that! :P
I've done that before too :(

#45 - On 05/04/2009 at 1:34pm by lazorzpewpew

wow

pathetic

#46 - On 05/11/2009 at 7:16pm by BOOPER

You can't open the door during the wash cycle on your machines? Every coin operated washer and dryer I've ever used runs on a timer, not the opening and closing of the doors. And also... at least they got mostly clean.

#49 - On 12/26/2009 at 6:20pm by tisiphone

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