The easiest answer is because I have a family to provide for. The practical reason is I love my menagerie of pets! I had to clean their bedding and the amount of hair I had to clean out of the washer and the lint trap made me feel icky. I went looking for a laundromat (A dirty word to us at TLC) and could not find a close one. The one I knew about had closed. Why not one near us? Then I...