Laundromat vs. Laundry on the lot: Which do you prefer?

The thing about laundromats is that they don't have to be boring. Of course they require washers and dryers, but how about adding a decent stereo system, a staffed LN bar or two, some video games or maybe table tennis or skee-ball, perhaps set up an Internet cafe type of structure? Or shelves of books to read and some tea tables or maybe a coffee barista if that's your thing? A karaoke machine, perhaps? Dance floors, hot tubs, and bubble machines might be a bit over the top for laundry day, but whatever it is that you think your town's sims might like would do.

By the way, it has been my experience that in real life there are two kinds of people. Those who say they enjoy doing laundry, and those who are telling the truth. ;)

My vote isn't entirely accurate, but it's the closest. I rarely use the laundry system in my games. Every once in a while I'll place one of Nona's Superhampers on a home lot and buy a washer and dryer and incorporate laundry for the moodlets. But mostly I don't because I find the whole thing bothersome.

I've never sent a sim to the laundry mat and only once use the clothesline to dry clothes and I don't think I stuck with that for very long.

I always end up ignoring the laundry system. It's a tedious chore that I don't enjoy in the game, or out of for that matter! :D

If I'm playing a family, then I'll get the laundry washers and dryers. But if not, then I sometimes ignore the whole thing. Laundry can be a real drag.

I went with "It depends on the family, but I prefer to get the washers" because I have a save where I placed 2 Sims on an empty lot and I have them digging through the trash dumpsters and raiding the junkyard for things that they can either keep for themselves or sell. So if I want them to have clean clothes, they get sent to the laundromat if I remembered to place one in the world that they're living in... :)

Then I have saves where I might place them in a small house such as the one in Bridgeport that's across the river from the city and place a cheap washer in the house and clothesline outside. Or like my save where I built a log cabin farmstead and have a washer in the house while they have a clothesline outside... :)

And then there are saves where I will buy both, a washer and dryer and maybe a clothesline to use doing the spring/summer days... :)

So it just depends on what kind of story that I'm doing at the time that makes me decide whether I want washer/dryers/clothesline or use the laundromat... :)

I once made my own laundromat where I placed a claw machine and an arcade machine in there as well as a counter with a coffee/drink machine on it. And then I made a gas station/mechanic garage on the same lot with it... :)

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Only when my sims go to university they have to deal with laundry ;) I did have washers and dryers when they were introduced to the game, but they’re a nuisance for me more than anything else.

Sorry, @igazor, but you are wrong. I actually do enjoy doing laundry. It's my favorite of all the household chores I have to do. After all, I'm not using a washboard - the machine does the hard part. And I love getting the clean clothes out of the dryer, all clean and fresh smelling, then folding them and putting them in nice, neat piles. I suppose I like that so much because I love making things clean, neat and tidy. I also love washing the glass doors on my china cabinet, or the chimneys of my oil lamps, which I used to collect, and then admiring how shiny and spotless they look. Some people think I'm strange for liking to do laundry, but so what? I don't care.

As for my sims, I did send them to the laundromat once, long ago when I first began playing with Ambitions. But I didn't have them do any laundry there, because they couldn't afford it. By the time they can afford to throw away that much money a couple times a week, they can afford to have their own washing machine and clothesline. I do use the clotheslines, but my sims who have them usually get a dryer too, when they can afford it, for when the weather doesn't permit hanging clothes outside - not that it actually makes a difference in the game, but that's one of the things I insist on doing realistically. And until my sims can afford a washer, clothesline, and at least one hamper, that one being one of Nona Mena's super hampers, they don't do laundry at all.

I do put the laundromat in some of my towns, though, mostly for a potential place for my sims to meet other sims - not that I've ever sent them there to do that, but....

I more or less ignore the laundry system at home for my sims. One or two of my households have a dryer and washer, those households also have djinns (when they make the house sparkly clean the laundry piles vanish). The laundromats I ignore completly, not really by choice, I just don´t remember that they are a thing.
I do enjoy doing laundry in RL. That´s actually not a lie. :D
I never iron, though.

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My assessment about those who love to do laundry IRL was of course not meant to be taken seriously. I may not understand you folks entirely, but I acknowledge your existence. :)

Laundry is just a pain to me. I got tired of dirty clothes piles everywhere. I haven't tried Nona's superhamper yet, I might look that up and try it out.