Laundry saboteur gets payback against the entitled neighbor who keeps abandoning his clothes in the communal laundry machines: ‘Now he’s there right when the cycle ends'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 29, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

An entitled upstairs neighbor kept "forgetting" his clothes in the communal washing machine. And the worst part? When she confronted him the first time about his laundry negligence, he brushed her off and told her to move or fold his clothes for him if it bothered her. You know what bothers me? Doing other people's laundry. So for this woman, that was the final straw. 

Fed up and tired of getting her laundry-related chores derailed, a woman decided to give this guy a taste of his own inconvenience, sabotaging each load of laundry until the moment he realized he shouldn't be leaving his belongings unattended for days on end in the shared building space. Who knows what could happen to your clothes after 24 hours of abandonment…

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  • My upstairs neighbor kept leaving laundry in the shared washer, so I started decorating it
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  • We have two washers and two dryers for the whole building. You're supposed to move your stuff when it's
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  • done so other people can use it. My upstairs neighbor would leave his clothes sitting in there for hours, sometimes overnight.
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  • I asked him twice, he just laughed and said "just take it out if you need to." Which is gross.
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  • So I started folding his laundry... badly. Inside-out shirts, socks rolled into weird knots, jeans folded into triangles. One time I turned
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  • all his pillowcases into tubes and stacked them like Pringles. Another time I stuffed everything into one of his laundry baskets so tightly he had to pull them out one at a time.
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  • After a few rounds of that, he suddenly started setting timers on his phone. Now he's always down there right when the cycle ends.
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  • Truthfully, this neighbor isn't the only one who's experienced a battle at the laundromat. The only way to guarantee that your clothes don't get touched is by being 2 minutes earlier than your machine's beep. That way, no neighbor can rummage through your towels, shirts, and skivvies for an elaborate sabotage. 

  • Jpal62. Many years ago, 1980's, living in an apartment building I went to move my clothes from the washer to the dryer after my timer went off, only to find my
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  • soaking wet clothes on the floor and someone else's clothes in the washer. I am overly reactive, so I pulled their clothes out of the
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  • washer and tossed them down the trash chute, then gathered up my clothes and went to another floor to wash them. A little overly petty thinking about it now, but you can't change the past.
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  • No-Manner2949. I use to throw the load on the floor. Only gotta do that once
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  • Tinker107 Glitter. Glitter will solve your problem. Unless he LIKES glitter. Then you're screwed.
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  • Illustrious_Log_9... . Fold you say, I would have just piled them up on top of the machine
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  • psycho-pancake ⚫ I can't believe you took all that energy to do all that instead of just taking the clothes out and dumping them on the table.
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