Why you should have your own washing machine: a cautionary tale

When we were searching for our Munich apartment one of the things that we couldn’t care less about was whether it had a washing machine. 

Our selection criteria included things like “must have ceiling” and “don’t want rodents. Actually mice are cute. Don’t mind mice so long as they don’t eat the cupboards” and “don’t want to pay huge fee to agent (would prefer to throw my money at the Laundromat)”.

And hey ho we’re nearing the point of my rant. Laundromats in Munich are expensive! Like, crazy expensive. Like if we keep washing our clothes we’re going to blow through our money faster than Whitney Huston blows through crack or Lindsey Lohan blows through jail (that analogy was brought to you by MTV and some random German trashy mag. Stop judging, I’m learning critical German phrases.)

Back to how washing is going to send us broke…it is. And soon. One load of washing costs 3,50 euro (which is about $5AUD or “HOLY SHIT! WHAT? ONE LOAD? SERIOUSLY?”). Drying costs 0,80 euro per 10 minutes. This means that today we spent our entire weekly food budget on getting our clothes to smell nice.

I digress...

The point is that we decided that if we couldn’t afford to go out and make drunk fools of ourselves on the town, by golly we’d make fools of ourselves at the Laundromat. And we did. And therein lies the point. If you move to Munich make sure that your place has a washing machine or you might end up like this: