I am a very frugal person. I do recognize however that my time holds quite a lot of value. This was especially true right after the birth of my daughter. She arrived a little earlier than we had anticipated, and in the days (weeks?!) before she decided to make her appearance, the laundry had started to pile up. You can imagine that getting home from the hospital with a newborn and realizing that I hadn't done the laundry in three weeks was not fun. (Thankfully, I had already washed her clothes with the requisite baby laundry detergent, so we were fine there). I did a quick google search to discover that Gaithersburg had a drop off laundry service. I assumed that it was probably ridiculously expensive. I'd never used a laundry service before, but it seemed extravagant. I was so pleasantly surprised to discover that it was very, very reasonably priced (I think $1/lb). I pulled right up to the curb, and a nice man came out and put my 4 heavy trash bags of dirty laundry on the carts and rolled them in for me while I parked. When all was said and done, it was about a month's worth of laundry, and I paid about $60. Totally 100% worth it. I went back two or three days later, and it was ready to go. In the 2 years since my daughter was born, I have used them on two other occasions when life has just gotten really busy. They wash, dry, fold, hang, pair socks, etc, etc. During the holidays when you just don't have time, or after a vacation when laundry seems daunting, this is SO worth the money. They are friendly, efficient, very reasonably priced, and such a time saver.