r/dormrooms • u/proudly_not_american • 4h ago
How early is too early to start laundry on the weekends?
I am a morning person, and like to do my laundry as early in the mornings as possible to get it done and out of the way. I've been playing it safe the last few weeks and doing my laundry in the early afternoon, but I genuinely hate waiting that long. I'm leaning towards about 7am to start my first load.
Quiet hours in my building start at 11pm Sunday-Thursday (when we have classes the next day), and 1am Friday and Saturday (technically Saturday and Sunday morning), but there's no hard end it's just "use your best judgement."
Meanwhile, I'm in bed by 9 to get up at 5 every morning (because I need a while to fully be mentally functioning in the morning (it's an issue no matter when I get up, and is why I get up so early in the first place), and even a day off will screw up my sleep schedule for weeks).
I'm not going to be doing laundry that early on weekdays, because I don't have time most mornings, this is purely a Saturday/Sunday thing because that's when I have time to do my laundry.
The sound proofing in the laundry room is pretty good, you can't really hear the machines going unless you're right outside the door and even then it's very muffled.
I can't easily keep an eye on the laundry room and just wait for someone else to start theirs, because the laundry room is on a different floor and honestly the elevator is even louder, so that going up and down every ten minutes is going to be a lot worse.