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Seriously, is there some Finnish cultural bias against HAVING DRY GODDAMN CLOTHING?

Seriously. YOUR DRYERS SUCK. THEY FUCKING SUCK. It's like they're manufactured to not dry anything if more than two pieces of clothing are placed in them. In my latest laundry odyssey, my clothes were WETTER from being steamed up in the dryer than they were when they came out of the centrifuge (why the fuck don't the washers here spin the clothes? Do people here really like spending ALL DAMN DAY in the laundry room?)

And the drying rooms... what a wonderful invention that is. I've never heard of such a thing before moving here. What a concept. It's a clothesline, indoors, and to fool people into thinking anything dries there, there's a "heater" and a fan there. Now, the clothes directly under the fan, they get dry... eventually. Any clothes that are not in front of the fan, well, sucks to be you, especially when you only have a 5 hour slot in the drying room. More fun are the clothes that are dry on the side facing the fan, but still all damp on the other side.

In the first place I lived when I moved here, there was no drying room. Or dryer. So my ex set up this clothes rack in one of the rooms and draped the clothes over that. That would take a couple days, so there would be a room half-filled with wet clothes that just made the entire apartment humid. It seemed like the apartment was never without a drying rack of clothes making everything humid.

And it's not one place. I've lived in 5 different places now during my time in Finland, and none have had any easy laundry situation. When I lived in Atlanta, laundry would take less than 90 minutes from the time I gathered my clothes to the time I put them away, completely dry. And that wasn't in just one place - I lived in over half a dozen apartments in that city, and none of them provided a laundry nightmare. In Florida, it took about the same time but sometimes I let things sit because it wasn't an apartment building and I didn't have to worry about people dumping my stuff on the floor so they could do their laundry.

How do people with jobs do their laundry in this country? I don't see how it would be possible unless they wanted to devote one of their rare days off to it. Or is this why people wear the same set of clothes 2-3 days in a row? Because doing laundry is too much of a pain in the ass? My new goal is to make enough money so I can buy enough clothes so instead of washing clothes after I've worn them, I can just throw the fuckers out. Cleaning them is really not worth the effort.

Seriously, of all the things I need to worry about in my life, encountering major stress because of laundry, all the time, every time it needs to be done... it's really stupid. There has to be a better way. This isn't the third world. Why doesn't this work right?