Laundry mats are okay in a pitch like a temporary breakdown of the washing machine but having to sit around waiting for your laundry to get done isn't that comfortable. You have to sit in chairs that you have no idea whose been sitting there, worry about if someone came in with cockroaches in their bags or now a days worse yet would be bedbugs. Plus there's always that fool who took the day off from work because they are sick who decided it'd be a good day to get some laundry done and they are coughing all over the laundry mat....not to mention that you may find a quarter but doing laundry at home was ultimately cheaper.