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rob, when I lived in the condo building on East 54th, I’d take stuff out of either right away. I think I was lucky because most people in that building were older and only did laundry during the day so I didn’t encounter the problem very often but when I did, out it would come.
i’ve actually switched to only using cold water instead of hot water. i also only put socks and underwear and towels in the dryer. the rest i hang up on the bannister to air dry with the fan blowing on them. it’s a good way to keep clothes from shrinking. definitely dont wash pants after everytime you wear them, that’s absurd, that’s why we wear underwear you know. some people forget that.
what’s the proper etiquette when someone leaves their dry clothes in the drier, or wet clothes in the washer for a long time and there’s a line of people waiting? it’s okay to take their stuff out and put it on top of the drier? i always get creeped out doing that, especially if it’s some chick’s dainties… like she’s gonna walk in and see me handling them?
So what’s the verdict? I’m going for an eye exam at Grand Optical on Montague. After that, do I buy glasses there or just get measured and get the prescription and get the lenses on Mott Street and the frames somewhere else or get everything online?
Can someone please decide for me as I’m very indecisive and lazy?
cmu, I know, it was absurd. I didn’t know that people wore their pajamas more than once until I was about 25 years old and I had a roommate who stashed her’s under her pillow!
The towel thing was just ‘coo-coo’, she’d wash them until they were shreds! No wonder we had to buy new towels so often!
I learned, and well, having little money for the laundromat in my 20s, that I didn’t need to wash my jeans every day, and could wear a shirt maybe twice. And forget washing towels after every use!
Donatella, the shops on Mott (at bayard and at pell st) and the one at confucius plaza (on bowery) have been around 4ever. I personally would trust them more than lenscrafter
cobble: One in the morning, and one at night. I never wore my pajamas twice.
Most people wash clothes way too often. And use too much soap. And use hot water when cold will do. But, as I note all the time, science, studies and common sense do not change ingrained behavior that’s been fostered by cheap energy for decades (and the power of marketing like deodorant ads)
>We washed our towels after every use.
yeah, that’s the classic, needing to immediately wash cloth that you used only after you were clean!
I am now wondering how somebody can screw up lenses as DIBS and Arkady are pointing out. I was going to go for the low cost solution (my friend’s Chinatown guy for the lenses) but how do you know if they are doing a good job? I am not spending so much money on my next pair of glasses.
rob, when I lived in the condo building on East 54th, I’d take stuff out of either right away. I think I was lucky because most people in that building were older and only did laundry during the day so I didn’t encounter the problem very often but when I did, out it would come.
i’ve actually switched to only using cold water instead of hot water. i also only put socks and underwear and towels in the dryer. the rest i hang up on the bannister to air dry with the fan blowing on them. it’s a good way to keep clothes from shrinking. definitely dont wash pants after everytime you wear them, that’s absurd, that’s why we wear underwear you know. some people forget that.
what’s the proper etiquette when someone leaves their dry clothes in the drier, or wet clothes in the washer for a long time and there’s a line of people waiting? it’s okay to take their stuff out and put it on top of the drier? i always get creeped out doing that, especially if it’s some chick’s dainties… like she’s gonna walk in and see me handling them?
*rob*
So what’s the verdict? I’m going for an eye exam at Grand Optical on Montague. After that, do I buy glasses there or just get measured and get the prescription and get the lenses on Mott Street and the frames somewhere else or get everything online?
Can someone please decide for me as I’m very indecisive and lazy?
donatella, The ways they can screw up lenses can also include not fitting them properly to the frame.
cmu, I know, it was absurd. I didn’t know that people wore their pajamas more than once until I was about 25 years old and I had a roommate who stashed her’s under her pillow!
The towel thing was just ‘coo-coo’, she’d wash them until they were shreds! No wonder we had to buy new towels so often!
I learned, and well, having little money for the laundromat in my 20s, that I didn’t need to wash my jeans every day, and could wear a shirt maybe twice. And forget washing towels after every use!
Donatella, the shops on Mott (at bayard and at pell st) and the one at confucius plaza (on bowery) have been around 4ever. I personally would trust them more than lenscrafter
donatella, if they are not a simple nearsighted or faresighted lens and they are progressive, they become a lot more complicated to grind.
Also, the narrower they are vertically, the more difficult it is to get satisfactory progressive lenses.
When I went to A.R. trapp, they put my old glasses on a machine and made dots and lines to show me how poorly the grinding demarcations were.
cobble: One in the morning, and one at night. I never wore my pajamas twice.
Most people wash clothes way too often. And use too much soap. And use hot water when cold will do. But, as I note all the time, science, studies and common sense do not change ingrained behavior that’s been fostered by cheap energy for decades (and the power of marketing like deodorant ads)
>We washed our towels after every use.
yeah, that’s the classic, needing to immediately wash cloth that you used only after you were clean!
I am now wondering how somebody can screw up lenses as DIBS and Arkady are pointing out. I was going to go for the low cost solution (my friend’s Chinatown guy for the lenses) but how do you know if they are doing a good job? I am not spending so much money on my next pair of glasses.