ugh! i feel for you! i really hate shared laundry facilities...

one thing my friend does when she does her laundry is she has a little sign she puts on the washer that says:

'please do not put in dryer. thanks.'

seems to work

while it's a pain to have to deal with someone's neglected wet laundry, these people are nuts! i would never, never dry someone else's laundry ... who knows what's in there that could be ruined!

i'd leave a note, too .. and a spare laundry basket is a great idea.

never heard of that before. i lived in one building where people were reticent about touching each other's laundry (though there were only three machines and about 30 units in the building) and another where we have about 10 of each everybody always takes each other's stuff out if there's no washers or dryers left and the owner of the stuff is not present to deal with it themselves.

are your machines pay machines? i guess in my buildings nobody puts the dryer on because it costs money.

i'm such a carefree laundress i'd be nothing but happy if somebody dried my laundry -- bras be damned, i hate laundry.

don't you and your partner oversee renting in your bldg? if so, can't you be kind of high handed and make policy for the whole bldg and not worry about posting a note everytime? it seems fair enough to ask that people just remove stuff from the machines and put it in the provided basket(s).

i know this must be a real pain with diapers involved at all. yay EC!