People who leave laundry in the machine for hours (or days).

Hi friend, You know I have been apartment free for 11 years now. I totally forgot about that frustration. That used to piss me off soooo much. These people had no respect for anyone but themselves. And to have the nerve to get pissed at you because you took their clothes out after waiting a couple of hours is rediculous. I even used to fold their laundry. I am so glad those days are behind me and my heart goes out to you people that have to put up with it. It is just plain RUDE!! Cheryl

I live in a mobile home park, and there is a laundry room with only 4 washer/dryers. 2 washer and 2 dryers. Can you imagine that, and there are many people living around here, but the good thing is, everyone, almost everyone, has their own washer/dryer at home. I do. Thank God for that. But I have seen my share of day old laundry, up to 5 weeks old! I think it's crazy to leave laundry in so long, it is also unhealthy.

Oh I'm glad those days are behind me! When I was younger my mom, sister, and I lived in an apartment complex. I don't remember how many units it was but it was pretty big and only had maybe 7 washers and 7 dryers. No matter how quick we'd try to retrieve our clothes, the majority of the time they would be laying on top of the dryer. One time, my sister asked my mom to get my sister's clothes out of the dryer for one reason or another. My mom was willing, but unfortunately forgot to get the clothes. When my sister came home she freaked and worried someone stole her clothes. Sure enough they were stolen. Brand new (expensive) clothes that my sister had bought from the money she earned at her job. Boy was she furious that night!

At our summer home there is a "community laundry area" but I quit using it when I caught a former neighbor taking my still damp laundry out early and putting hers in so she could use the rest of my dim. That day hubby and I went out and bought a washer/dryer and contracted to have it installed in our small condo. Clearly that was a while ago because the dryer fee in the community laundry is no longer 10 cents. I could not believe that woman touched my clothes, but when I went back to the laundry room, there she was folding my underwear. I had to wash it all over again! Some nerve. I asked her "Why did you do this?" and she said, "Your laundry was dry enough!" One day my other neighbor had a run-in with the same women. She came back shaking and on the verge of tears and I asked her what was wrong. She asked me for the name of the contractor who put in our washer/dryer, and had him install equipment in her condo too. Of course it is much nicer now in every waqy.

It's not a problem I encounter as I have my own machine at home, but I can't imagine why people would want to leave their washing in a machine any longer than necessary. I mean, what's the point in making it all clean then leaving it in a machine to get musty and smelly again? the smell of laundry that has been allowed to sit in a machine for too long it just foul.

This had happened to me every time I went to use the washers here at my apartments. I would get mine out as soon as possible. The one time, I left something too long, I returned to find it gone. All my shirts, my boyfriends shirts, all our whites. Gone. I'm kid size, there is no adult woman here who could possibly fit into what I wear...so I don't understand why they would be stolen. But my boyfriends.... I wish people would respect each other more. If you're using a laudromat of sorts, realize other people need to use it. Do what you're there for, and leave. And only deal with your clothing, who is anyone to take someone elses clothing, while they are trying to wash theirs!!!? Blah, sorry, I feel your pain....And sometimes you wait hours, just to throw stuff into the dryer, because although you can use the washer, everyone else is letting their clothes wrinkle.

We don't have the concept of a shared laundry room in India. Everyone has their own washing machine and/or drier.....and those who don't wash it themselves or get a maid to do it. But I can't understand how someone would leave their laundry for days (a few hours I can understand...maybe they got busy while the laundry was getting done....but days???)

I don't allow this to be a problem. If I take someone else's stuff out of a machine, it's because I need the machine to do my own laundry. These are laundry machines, not storage acilities. I don't care what people think.

oh yea,a few of the apartments i rented had that problem.the mothers would lock them up early,then fall asleep after chasing their kids all day and forget about them. some of the other tenants would lose patience with them and throw their stuff on the top or on the floor.i guess i really can't blame them when it's going on day 5 and it's still in there.

I used to live in an apartment building where there were shared laundry facilities. I HATED it! Now that I've had my own washer and dryer for over a decade, I can't imagine going back to those shared laundry rooms ever again. I was always VERY good at getting my clothing out of the washer or dryer right away, but yes, I too experienced many people who would not. I am one of the people who would remove the clothing articles from the washer or dryer and put them in the appropriate basket, or even on the folding tables if no basket were present. I would only do this if I needed a machine, and had been waiting for at least 20 to 30 minutes. I never encountered someone getting furious with me over doing that... but I would hope that if I had, I would've simply told them to invest in a timer to avoid it happening again.

When I was living in an apartment block I had this same problem of people leaving their clothes in the machines. If I took them out to put mine in, sometimes people got mad at me, and I even got a nasty note left for me about it. So to not have any problems with my neighbours I went to the laundrymat instead. It was only 1/2 block from my apartment so it was no big deal. Also it was a lot quicker to do my laundry because I would use 5 or 6 machines at once so it would only take me a couple hours to do it all. I loved it and continued to do my laundry that way for the whole year I lived there. I now live in a house with a washer and dryer to myself and it is great since I don't have to wait to do my laundry and can do it anytime I want, a little each day if I want.

I was down at the laundry mat doing some rugs for our place, and over 75% of the washers were taken up by someone. No idea who as for the entire time we were there washing these rugs NO ONE SHOWED! And the machines had been finished before we even GOT there. No one there even knew who owned the clothing in all the machines.

I have indeed been through this before and it's so frustrating! When I lived in an apartment, I had to also share washing machines and dryers with other tenants and there were people who would leave their laundry in the washers but I just took them out anyway and placed them ontop of the dryer. The laundry hours were only till 10pm so we had a time limit of running the machines each day. Also while I'm on the topic I have a friend who lives in housing and it's an apartment complex. They give you a scheduled day to do your laundry and you have a certain time during that scheduled day to do it up. She was so fed up with this because the people before her were purposely putting all sorts of hair in the machines wether it was dog hair, cat hair their hair.. any hair you can think of. They knew she was scheduled after them and then she reported them to the main office. It didn't stop until those people moved out.

why would you leave your clothes in the machine like that?. when i need to do laundry i wash and take it out as soon as its done i let it fester in the machine, usualy the building has some kind of laundry rules. in my building you cant leave your clocthes their for hours or days, and if you do they the maintence people throw your clothes out. i rather walk a block and go to the local launderomat and wash n dry in the same day and get it over with.

I don't even like it if someone does it at a lundromat.. leave their clothes for hours that is, if a laundromat gets filled up, you can end up waiting in line for machines.. I think it's very thoughtless..

I live in NYC and my apartment building has 90 apartments sharing 4 washers and 4 dryers. I wait 15 minutes after the machine stops. If the person isn't down after that 15 minutes, it's pretty much expected that the laundry will be taken out. Building management even posted a sign in the laundry room to the effect that if you don't stay with your laundry and leave the laundry room, it is your responsibility to come down and remove your clothes. The sign goes on to say that if you don't come down in time, another resident may remove your clothes to use the machine. Do you have a management office in your building? Can you convince them to post a sign like that?

In my place, I just need to give my clothes to the laundry waitress, they will do it instead of you. So I have never been in this situation.

I have always felt this to be an universal problem. It can be so frustrating. I am a live-in Home Health Aide, and I live a famous Chicago landmark high-rise. There are laundry rooms galore, so I think that contributes to our "leave clothes in the washer or dryer too long types." I guess they figure that you can always go to another floor. But who wants to wait on elevators running from floor to floor? I have notice that people, other that myself, have no qualms about removing othere people's clothing. That's not my cup of tea. I use a timer, and one time I was just a few minutes later, and someone had removed my clothing from the washer. I was livid! If you have done this before, please be careful people are so prone to verbal and physical abuse over the least little these days. I know I didn't like the of a stranger handling my wet clothes. Maybe if you have'nt done so, complain to your landlord, real estate, or management company. Have them put signs, try to catch a particular "offender", etc. Because if nothing else, this practice is not fair to others that have to schedule their time for particular chores, and are being held up or inconvenienced by selfish others.

I've never heard of people doing that before, but I've never lived in an apartment before and had to share the laundry with everybody. I've heard of leaving the laundry in the washer or dryer at home for days, but they wrinkle, and you usually have to wash again because things get soured. I used to have to use the laundry mat, and sometimes it would be full, and the machines that weren't going had clothes in them, but they were done and the ppl running them were nowhere in sight. I had to ask the attendee to remove them because I didn't want anyone mad at me for taking their clothes out.

Yes, i have had this happen to me. The persons clothes even stink after sitting there too long. My problem is i rent a basement apt from my sons friend. The landlord is the one doing it. So what can i say. I always just move his stuff do what i need to do for myslef and then put his stuff back. What else can i do?