BIG Laundry Solutions for the LITTLE Dorm Room

Shop at Clares has laundry solutions for the little dorm room - hampers, indoor drying racks, portable ironing boards and more to help you take care of your laundry while in the dorm and away at college. We have decades of experience with those little dorm rooms! To prepare yourself for this adventure, we highly recommend that you move into your home closet for about 4 weeks prior to arriving at school. We promise that this will help make your dorm room seem huge.

Taking laundry home every weekend for your mom to do is not a solution! First of all, you will need a place to throw the dirty laundry and the floor is no longer an option, since you will no longer have floor space. We have a variety of laundry bags and hampers that are popular with the college crowd as well as our post graduates! Many of these easily transport to the laundry room or fold up to store out of sight.

Hopefully you know the ins and outs of how to wash your clothes. If not you will have to take it as an elective or find a neat freak to do it for you. Should you chose the do-it-yourself laundry path, we have some suggestions about how to avoid the frustrations associated with doing laundry. Be forewarned that clothing left in a washer or dryer in a shared laundry area may not end up back in your closet! Take a text book with you and study while waiting for your laundry (sorry, we had to throw that in).

Little loads of wash cost just as much as the full loads, so we recommend that your share the washer with a friend. Place your smaller articles of clothing like tops, hosiery and underwear in mesh wash bags. Not only does this make sorting your clothes easier, it also cuts down on the wear and tear of your clothes. Mesh bags come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and have many other uses, such as washing sweaters.

Save money and time by air drying your clothes. The question is how to do that when you don’t have a yard and your dorm room is already crammed with real essentials for college. The answer is portable folding drying racks! These are very economical, easy to setup, take up very little space and fold-away to store in your closet or under your bed.


Finally, the necessary evil – ironing. In a dorm this seems almost impossible, but believe us, there are ways. An over the door ironing board is one solution, but our favorites are the tabletop ironing boards and if you are really strapped for space, clear off the desk and use an ironing blanket.

We welcome other college laundry solutions from those who have been there, done that, and survived. To check out these solutions and find other great ideas go to our Shop At Clares e-store.