Todays Laundry

This place is pretty legit in my book. We’ve done our laundry a few times here, using alllll the services: drop-​off, dry cleaning, alteration, and self-​serve.
We tried drop-​off first. It’s 90 cents a pound, with a 10 pound minimum, which is a few cents less than the nearby competition. Plus, there’s someone there all the time during business hours (looking at you, Davidsons Laundry!), so you can drop off whenever. They have a scale in the customer area, which you may want to use before you drop off – I had no idea that we had 45 pounds of laundry until it was too late! Hella dollaz. Still, they had our clothes done within 24 hours, and damn but they pressed the shirts. I don’t even own an iron. I guess I could use my hair straightener, but that seems a little too domestic MacGuyver.
I’m waiting to get the dry cleaning and alterations back, but I’m hoping that’ll be painless too. Among my items, I brought in a big winter coat and the guy there told me it would be expensive and that I should wash it in a big machine. Thank you for not being shady, sir! I appreciate your candor!
As someone else noted, there’s nowhere to sit. That’s because the place is full of machines! They have three different sizes of washer and maybe one or two sizes of dryer. We used the industrial washers for $ 5 each, but it only took 17 minutes! And my clothes are extremely clean smelling! The dryers are the pay-​as-​you-​go type – either 25 or 50 cents for every 8 minutes, but they’re industrial too and they really get the job done. Clean clothes galore!
We’ll keep using this place because it’s close, the price is right, and the staff members are friendly and helpful. We got our shopping done at Market Basket this past visit, as well as picked up some yummy burgers from Caesar’s. It’s close enough to the rest of the Square that you can really optimize your visits.
No credit cards and no ATM on site, but they do accept personal checks along with cash moneyz.

For years, I was a strong believer that you should always do your own laundry. Then I finally caved and gave it to Today’s to do for me. They are pretty cheap (cheaper than other drop-​off laundry places in the area), always do a great job, turn my laundry around in 24 hours, and remember me as a repeat customer and make me feel welcome. My friend, who moved out of Union Square, still cabs over to Today’s to drop off her clothes, since they are far superior to the drop-​off laundries near her new apartment.
All in all, they rock!

My favorite laundry in the area; a reason for regret that I don’t have a car any more. (Just went today with a Zipcar ’cause my local was unexpectedly closed.) Small, so best at non-​busy times, but the owners/​managers are diligent about emptying machines when there are people waiting. (If you’re someone who leaves clothes long after the machine has stopped & don’t want your clothes touched. .. . Well, you shouldn’t be using a public laundromat.) They’re also diligent about keeping the floor clean, even when it’s slushy out, so dropped clean clothes aren’t a disaster.
Also, I’m fussy about well-​rinsed clothes, and the large machines have two wash and three rinse cycles, so I can use a larger amount of detergent in the first wash, less in the second, and then get three rinses (with spins in between). There are more large machines than small, which seems sensible to me: how many people go to a laundromat with one small load of laundry?
As for the complaint about the guy chasing you out of the loading zone parking space: parking near there can be difficult, so that space, used only for unloading or loading laundry, is very helpful. Plenty of people leave their car there for hours, despite it being well marked as a loading zone.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Okay, so I’m a firm believer in two birds; one stone. Not two girls, one cup. Get it right, pervert.
We (the boy and I) decide to take pups to the dog park and get some laundry done. We pull up and park not in front of, but almost in front of Today’s Laundry. I get out with pups, and before the boy can open the door to the back seat to get said laundry the angriest asian man comes out with a newspaper. (I can talk smack about asians because I am one too, remember?) And it goes down like this:
«Haaaay, you no pock here! You go dog pock, you move caaaahr!» toes: tap, tap tap tap.
Okay dude.
So we look at each other and laugh. We move the car 25 feet forward away from angry Cheng’s House of Hostility. Laundry can wait, and it definitely can go elsewhere.
BEWARE CHENG’S WRATH!
lmao.

Sign says last load in before 8 but we were turned away at 7:40. There’s a lot of better laundromats in the area and most others are open until 10. Also no place to sit inside.

Pros
1.) It has it’s own loading and unloading parking spot right in front of the building.
2.) There is non permit parking all along Summer street.
3.) The dog park is directly across the street.
Cons
1.) It’s REALLY small. 14 washers and 10 dryers so you have to hit it at the right time.
It was great thought. I got 7 loads of laundry done, my dogs got to run around for 2 hours and I finally had a reason to go to Bloc 11 and get coffee.
Location Location Location.