NEW Wash + Bag Service to help while social distancing

As a pickup and delivery laundry service with an on-site laundromat, we have been making a few changes to help keep our customers and staff safe.

Starting Monday, March 23, we will be offering a new wash + bag service for laundry, in addition to our traditional wash & fold service.  With this new service, we will wash, dry and bag laundry for $1.00 per pound (a typical household load is 10-20 pounds).  Our new wash + bag service will include free pick-up and delivery to Manchester zip codes. 

Here’s how it works:

You leave your laundry for our driver, wrapped in plastic (such as a tied up garbage bag). We pick it up, wash and dry with detergents and temperatures recommended for staying healthy. We return your laundry to you in a clean plastic bag.

However, we will be unable to fold, sort, hang dry, or take other special requests for this service.  

Sign up here for a pickup for our new wash + bag service.

For now, our onsite laundromat will remain open Monday-Wednesday, 8am-7pm; Thursday-Saturday, 8am - 4pm; and Sunday, 10am - 6pm, but we encourage our regular self-service customers to consider switching to our new wash + bag option.

How do we keep you and your family healthy in our Coin-Operated Laundromat during a pandemic?

At our laundromat, we are working hard to keep our guests safe and healthy—learn how:

60,000 HOURS Saved in 2019

60,000 Hours

There were 8,760 hours in 2019. At Wash Street, we saved our Wash & Fold customers 60,000 hours by providing laundry service! What will YOU do with your found time? Work? Hang with your kids? Exercise? Volunteer? Run for office? Or, do nothing. It’s your time. We’ll get your laundry from your home or office--wash, dry, fold that laundry--and return your clean laundry back to you. Who doesn’t want more time?

How can we help you save time in 2020? Let us know at clean@washstreet.com.

Last Minute Holiday Gifts in a FLASH

Give the Gift of Time this Holiday Season and Beyond

As we prepare for a busy year-end (for us, it's full-on multi-faith holiday prep and changing bed linens for out-of-town guests), we start thinking about all the ways we'd rather be spending our time. Skiing, ice skating, snow person-making and hiding under the covers with cocoa and streaming services. Laundry is NEVER on our list of "I'd Rather Be..." activities list, and it's probably not on yours, either! How about gifting TIME this season with Wash Street Gift Certificates for those you love (and those who serve you and your family)?

The gift you’d love to give and get!

Are you stumped about what to buy for your favorite teacher, co-worker, neighbor, childcare provider? Consider the gift of time—help them outsource laundry in 2020 with a Wash Street gift certificate in any amount. To support an aging parent, offer a weekly pick-up and delivery of laundry, charged directly to your credit card. Or, treat yourself this season and into the New Year with wash & fold laundry services! More at our website or call on one of our Wash Street helpers.

CELEBRATING MOTHERS

It’s a great week to celebrate someone who’s probably done some of your laundry at one point in your life. We’d like to offer you a Mother’s Day coupon code for gifting--all Mother’s Day gift certificates or online orders using MOM10 will get 10% off.

Here’s a suggestion of a note for you to send. Feel free to copy and paste!

Dear Mom/Mum/Mother/Mommy/Maca/Nonnie,

Thank you for all you have done, and do, for us! We want to give you back some of the time and energy you give to us, so we’re sending Wash Street to pick up your laundry and bring it back to you clean, folded and tied up with a ribbon. You need this, you deserve this, and we are happy to give you something other than a scarf/book/card/meal/bracelet this year.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Love, __________________________

You can email us at clean@washstreet.com and let us know you need a gift certificate, or drop by our store at 1231 Elm Street in Manchester, or use our website (washstreet.com) to set up a delivery (on your credit card, but with Mom’s address for pick up).

Happy Mother’s Day, all!

Embrace Organizing & Decluttering With Us: Why We love Marie Kondo.

It’s time to straighten up and simplify your living space.

If you have been feeling overwhelmed by clutter lately, you’re not alone. We’re living in a society where consumer goods, clothing,  and products are getting easier to come by, less inexpensive, and more likely to find a place in your junk drawers or on your shelves. Unfortunately, a higher level of the stress hormone, cortisol, is associated with a fixation on mess or disorder.  The upside? This means that your stress levels can also be lowered when you declutter your surroundings. We’ve compiled a list tips and tricks from one of our favorite organization experts: Marie Kondo

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Interested in learning more about how to apply these tricks to your closet?

Learn how to Konmari fold your clothes at an upcoming Spark Joy Networking Event. Our next one is on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at 5 PM – 7 PM.

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Who is Marie Kondo?

An organizing consultant and author from Japan who has stolen the hearts of America with her new Netflix series, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. Marie Kondo has developed her own technique of organizing --  the KonMari method -- that suggests separating all of your belongings into subcategories. Once you have done this, you choose to keep only the items from each category that “spark joy” for you. Her unique approach is focused on decluttering your life, not simply ‘neatening up’ your space.

Save Space in your Drawers and Closets: Learn to Fold Clothes Like Marie Kondo

One of the most difficult categories to organize is clothing--some of Marie Kondo’s top laundry tips include:

1. Folding your clothing like origami

2. Standing your folded clothes upright in drawers

3. Storing your items in square compartments.

Want To Learn How To Organize Like Marie Kondo?

Are you interested in organizing your belongings, but don’t have the time to read Marie Kondo’s book or watch Netflix? Don’t worry; we’ve summarized the KonMari organization method for you using a graphic from makespace.com. Here are a few of her top suggestions for decluttering your surroundings:

Commit

Set aside enough time to get your task done all at once. Commit to tidying up your space in one attempt to prevent the dreaded ‘half done’ stage of organization.

Visualize

Kondo suggests that you visualize your ideal living space and simplified lifestyle. This will both motivate you to complete your task and prevent you from falling back into the clutter.

Prioritize

This is where the heart of KonMari comes into play. You take an item in both of your hands, and ask yourself “does this spark joy in me?” If the answer is yes, you keep it. If no, donate it or throw it away.

Discard

It is crucial that you actually get rid of the items that no longer serve your living space. Putting them in a new place or promising to discard them later are traps that we too often fall into.

Categorize

Kondo suggests that you organize your belongings by category, as opposed to room by room.  For example, we suggest getting all of the books in your house together instead of tackling one bookcase at a time.

Designate

Give every item a ‘home’ in your living space. Commit to returning that item to its home after every time you use it.

Register for our free Spark Joy Networking Event.

Learn how to fold your clothes Konmari style! Our next one is on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at 5 PM – 7 PM.