How to wash clothes in US
Hello, guys! I will stay in US for a while. It may seem to be a funny and ridiculous probem for natives, but it is quite a troubling one for us.
It is summer and we need to change clothes every day. How often will you use laundry machines? I bought a laundry bag today and I wonder how many clothes you will take to laundry room once a load.
In our country, during summer we just wash by hand every day and dry them outside or in the balcony, but it is illegal in US. I've come here recently and where I live only provides public laundry rooms. It is quite inconvenient and troublesome for me.

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How to wash clothes in US
Hello, guys! I will stay in US for a while. It may seem to be a funny and ridiculous probem for natives, but it is quite a troubling one for us. 
It is summer and we need to change clothes every day. How often will you use laundry machines? I bought a laundry bag today and I wonder how many clothes you will take to laundry room once a load.
In our country, during summer we just wash by hand every day and dry them outside or in the balcony, but it is illegal in US. I've come here recently and where I live only provides public laundry rooms. It is quite inconvenient and troublesome for me.

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i don't think hanging clothes outside is illegal... you can get an indoor drying rack and continue hand-washing if you want. (https://www.google.com/search?q=laundry+drying+rack&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QW0xUvLgCKLE2wXfhYFA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1075&dpr=1)

anyway, you can wash like 7 days' worth of clothes at once in a public laundry room. there are also dryers there, which nearly every american uses rather than hanging clothes (i'm sorry to say) because it's much faster. most people don't like going to the laundry so once a week or once every two weeks should be fine.

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Some buildings, apartment complexes, and possibly some cities have regulations against hanging clothes outside dry if they are visible from the street, so if someone has specifically told you not to hang clothes outside where you're staying, I'd go with that.

As Christie said, you can get a drying rack for your room or do what many people do, which is to wash about a week's worth of clothes at time in the laundry room.

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I live in northern Virginia and it is illegal to hang laundry outside to dry and I live in a community of single family detached homes.  I always hung my clothes outside to dry in California. Now I am forced to use a clothes dryer for everything but my delicate tops that I dry on towels spread on the floor.

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Oh, I always hang out my clothes, I didn't know it was illegal in some places....I don't hang out my knickers, though :P

I would check the local laws, as Ashley said!

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