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PSA: I would pay upwards of $5000 for a robot that can reliably fold and put away laundry. I mean in a real bedroom, not some contrived setting, and real clothe
by api 7y ago
PSA: I would pay upwards of $5000 for a robot that can reliably fold and put away laundry. I mean in a real bedroom, not some contrived setting, and real clothes that are not pre-sorted.
- gambiting 7y agoI can't fathom having enough disposable income to spend $5000 on such a thing. Good for you I guess.
- api 7y agoI would consider buying a folding robot on awful credit terms. Seriously though. Laundry folding is the last of the endlessly tedious household chores to not fall to automation.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoMy friends dad in college was a radiologist and made $750k/yr. He would visit and buy a $20k watch like it was nothing. I don’t like the existence of that kind of wealth while people are dying from lack of insulin.
- rolltiide 7y agoCheaper than a live in housekeeper, I would consider it but hope that single purpose machine was way cheaper
- swalsh 7y agoI have kids, folding laundry is at least an active 15 minutes every day. I'd pay way more than 5000 to get that time back. If you skip a day it piles up, and soon you have hours worth of folding waiting for you.
- ascorbic 7y agoYikes. My kids' clothes get chucked into boxes and that takes enough time as it is. I can't imagine a situation where I'd fold them. Wedding clothes, maybe. It's not as if I'd ever iron their clothes.
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- insickness 7y agoI don't know where you live, but in New York City there are several services that come pick up your laundry and drop it off when it's done. No matter how you slice it, it's probably a lot less than $5k per year.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> No matter how you slice it, it's probably a lot less than $5k per year. Now remember that the offer starting this thread was to pay a flat $5k to own a machine. Even with running costs and repairs, that's less than a tenth of $5k per year.
- oh_sigh 7y agoMake your kids fold their own clothes.
- wyattpeak 7y agoGiven the parent's comment, we have no idea if the kids are old enough to fold clothes, or have the physical ability, or anything else. To say nothing of the effort and time it can take to corral kids into doing chores. Giving obvious advice is both patronising and almost always unhelpful.
- oh_sigh 7y agoIf they are too young to do it themselves, then I'm not sure if they would care if there is a wrinkle in their slacks. And, I've seen parents do all sorts of time-suck things that would be actually teaching kids self sufficiency, but instead the parents are losing their own time and handicapping their children. E.g. a friends mom in high school would still clean her room, and now - no surprise, 15 years later she lives in a pig sty except for the few times a mom visits her apartment and gives it a deep clean. Maybe some patronizing advice like "make your kid clean their own room" would have helped.
- missosoup 7y agoThe downvotes you're getting are pretty telling of the american tendency to infantalise their children. Kids from 5 onwards are perfectly capable of doing various chores around the house and until recently in history, it was expected of kids to start contributing to household work as soon as they're old enough to. But after the post-war age of abundance, americans are like oh no our bubby 10 year old can't handle washing the dishes and folding their own clothes.
- wyattpeak 7y ago> The downvotes you're getting are pretty telling of the american tendency to infantalise their children. No, they're not. They're telling of the fact that people fundamentally trust that others are doing the best they can in the situation they find themselves in, and have probably considered the obvious alternatives. GP's not getting downvoted because people don't think children should do chores (that's not a particularly common opinion, unless you're looking to bash Americans), but because it's a callous and self-important opinion that their friend's mother had never considered getting her kids to do chores, and that a reminder from a busybody would have solved the issue.
- matz1 7y agoIf you work in FANG like company, $5k spending on such a thing is nothing.
- Tade0 7y agoI make less than $50k/year and I can imagine myself investing in such a device. People don't think twice about buying new cars for much more, so why hesitate when there are clear benefits?
- on_and_off 7y agoSounds about right. When I was living in France, I had a house cleaner coming every other week. (IIRC half of what you pay your house cleaner can be deduced from your taxes, making this service relatively cheap) Their first task was always to iron my shirts ... a chore I was very happy to do not have to do anymore. I don't mind at all washing them myself but ironing feels like it takes way too much time.