About Swedish laundry rooms
In response to my Laundry room theories blogging, Klipspringer pointed me to a very funny article about the Swedish laundry room phenomenon, titled The Swedish Way of Laundering by Ian Taylor. Klipspringer writes that he believes “this is something archetypically Swedish” and reading this article surely gives that impression.
My favorite part of the article:
Later enquiries around this theme with Dr. Ingrid Sahlin, a researcher in social policy at Lund University, to my absolute astonishment, revealed that the Ministry of Immigration in Sweden for some years has been funding local authorities to provide “laundry lessons” for new immigrants on quite an extensive and continuing basis.