この記事は次の言語でも読めます：日本語
Hi guys, it’s Mizuki!
It has been 3 weeks since I moved in this apartment.
For people interested in living in an apartment by wheelchair in the States, I’m going to share my life in here.
Today’s topic is “laundry”!
In general speaking, if you live in an apartment in Japan, you need to buy a laundry (+ dryer) by yourself and set it in your room.
However, in my apartment in Syracuse, some washer and dryer machines are available on each floor.
You can pay to use them, like those in launderette.
The price here: washer machine is 1.75 USD, dryer machine is 1.25USD. If you use both, it costs 3USD = 360JPY-ish.
I used to do laundry almost everyday in Japan, but in here I do it 2 times a week.
To save money, I would like to use it less.
However the clothes won’t be dried enough if I put too much in the machine…As a result, I may need to use 2 dryer machines in the end…
Both washer and dryer machines are drum type so the height is reasonable for a wheelchair user to use.
I recommend to buy a landscape shape basket so that you can easily carry the clothes on your lap with it.
It is kind of hard to see where to put the detergent from the height of a wheelchair user.
I think it is probably ok to put detergent on the left side since this machine has the space for it on the left.
Washing will be done for 30 mins.
You take the clothes out and put them in a dryer machine.
Drying takes 1 hour to be finished.
I haven’t experienced in this apartment yet, though when I was a student in university of Wisconsin, someone took my clothes out when I didn’t pick up right after dryer was done. hahaha.
Well, the machines are shared with other people, so we should take them out as soon as finished.
That would be all for laundry!