Salam 'alayk guys!
Before I enter tertiary education, I have never ever seperated from my family, my comfort for more than a week. I've never been to school hostels, camps, and so on where I have to be totally independent of my days and myself.
So, getting into UIA is my first experience, and there's a lot of things I need to learn, including doing laundry.
But honestly, I'm not that kind of brat who don't know how to use washing machine, or doing washing clothes by hand, what's softener, and so on. Sometimes at home I washed my clothes by hand too, mostly to cleanse spilled drinks/food on clothes, or just to whiten my school socks (washing machine doesn't work on my socks).
Plus, I've been taught by my mom that fresh clothes from laundry need to be taken care of carefully. Like, in the process of transferring clothes from washing machine to laundry basket, you can't let them touch anything else, because 1) they're clean 2) they're wet clean. So it's easy for the 'clean' to be contaminated.
So now, in college, I don't get it, how on Earth the sisters here don't know the art of doing laundry!
Just now I was using the laundry room, and as usual I would make a timer on my phone so no one would touch my clothes when their turn has come to use the machine (because you never know how they handle your clothes from the machine to your laundry basket). And I was late just for 1 or 2 MINUTES!
I stormed down the stairs, barged into the laundry room, only to look at a SISTER trying to put my FRESH-OUT-OF-MACHINE CLOTHES into my laundry basket while they're still TANGLED TO EACH OTHER and my basket fell and my clothes TOUCHED THE FLOOR!
DAMN IT!
I don't know if she really doesn't care about fresh laundry or she's just being selfish because it's not her clothes.
She saw me and asked, "is it yours?", and I just said yeah, not once looking at her, continue handling my clothes from hand, and she did not deserve my smile or gratitude whatsoever.
GOSH!
Now I have to wash the contaminated clothes again.
So now since I'm agitated about what had happened, and in an attempt to avoid that happening again, I'm gonna list what to do when the clothes owner haven't come to retrieve them from the washing machine because you need to use it.
1) Look for the laundry basket. Then take a look at the size of the basket and volume of the clothes, is it balance or not?
2) If the laundry basket is more than enough for the clothes, then it's ok.
3) If the clothes doesn't look like it's gonna fit into the basket, you gotta see if the owner put any laundry bag into the washing machines, because that will gonna be the last one into the basket.
4) Start transferring the clothes. But remember to untangle them, and crumple them so they won't fall away or touches the floor.
5) Prioritize the undies or small clothes, so they won't fall out of the basket since they're at the bottom.
6) HANDLE THE CLOTHES WITH CARE LIKE IT'S YOUR CLOTHES!
7) Lastly, make sure the washing machine is empty before you start throwing in your dirty clothes.
Hope you guys don't experience this thing like I did, and also hoping the sisters in UIA know the essence of being hygienic!
Before I enter tertiary education, I have never ever seperated from my family, my comfort for more than a week. I've never been to school hostels, camps, and so on where I have to be totally independent of my days and myself.
So, getting into UIA is my first experience, and there's a lot of things I need to learn, including doing laundry.
But honestly, I'm not that kind of brat who don't know how to use washing machine, or doing washing clothes by hand, what's softener, and so on. Sometimes at home I washed my clothes by hand too, mostly to cleanse spilled drinks/food on clothes, or just to whiten my school socks (washing machine doesn't work on my socks).
Plus, I've been taught by my mom that fresh clothes from laundry need to be taken care of carefully. Like, in the process of transferring clothes from washing machine to laundry basket, you can't let them touch anything else, because 1) they're clean 2) they're wet clean. So it's easy for the 'clean' to be contaminated.
So now, in college, I don't get it, how on Earth the sisters here don't know the art of doing laundry!
Just now I was using the laundry room, and as usual I would make a timer on my phone so no one would touch my clothes when their turn has come to use the machine (because you never know how they handle your clothes from the machine to your laundry basket). And I was late just for 1 or 2 MINUTES!
I stormed down the stairs, barged into the laundry room, only to look at a SISTER trying to put my FRESH-OUT-OF-MACHINE CLOTHES into my laundry basket while they're still TANGLED TO EACH OTHER and my basket fell and my clothes TOUCHED THE FLOOR!
DAMN IT!
I don't know if she really doesn't care about fresh laundry or she's just being selfish because it's not her clothes.
She saw me and asked, "is it yours?", and I just said yeah, not once looking at her, continue handling my clothes from hand, and she did not deserve my smile or gratitude whatsoever.
GOSH!
Now I have to wash the contaminated clothes again.
So now since I'm agitated about what had happened, and in an attempt to avoid that happening again, I'm gonna list what to do when the clothes owner haven't come to retrieve them from the washing machine because you need to use it.
1) Look for the laundry basket. Then take a look at the size of the basket and volume of the clothes, is it balance or not?
2) If the laundry basket is more than enough for the clothes, then it's ok.
3) If the clothes doesn't look like it's gonna fit into the basket, you gotta see if the owner put any laundry bag into the washing machines, because that will gonna be the last one into the basket.
4) Start transferring the clothes. But remember to untangle them, and crumple them so they won't fall away or touches the floor.
5) Prioritize the undies or small clothes, so they won't fall out of the basket since they're at the bottom.
6) HANDLE THE CLOTHES WITH CARE LIKE IT'S YOUR CLOTHES!
7) Lastly, make sure the washing machine is empty before you start throwing in your dirty clothes.
Hope you guys don't experience this thing like I did, and also hoping the sisters in UIA know the essence of being hygienic!
