The summer before starting college, Elijah Hurewitz-Ravitch sat in the family room with his dad, discussing what to pack for Yale. His dad handed him one of E&R Laundry’s fliers, assuring Hurewitz-Ravitch that a campus laundry service would save him time.
Although Hurewitz-Ravitch, now headed into his junior year of college, says laundry is “a basic domestic skill that everyone should probably know,” his parents still don’t know how to do their own laundry, much less how to teach him. His parents had acted like helicopters — overprotective and micromanaging — throughout his life, and Hurewitz-Ravitch says a college laundry service was “a way to extend the parental veil” even after he moved away from home.
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