I’m with the Neutral Abandoned Laundry Box/Bin. I did someting very similar when I lived in a dorm and abandoned/wrongly adressed mail piled up lying on the steps of the stairs.
I made a basket hanging on the wall that said, translated to laundry:
Lost your laundry? Check this bin. "
And in smaller letters: "laundry left on the machine for longer then two loads goes in this bin to be out of the way of the next person using the machine.
I would also hang a poster with a similar tekst on the wall or on the door so everyone can see it.
With such an note, you establish the laundry room etiquette not just for yourself and “perps”, but also for other users of the room with the same problem. You’re giving other people the guidelines how to deal with it, so you’re not the “designated laundry nazi”:). Also, it allows you to not sign the note.
I would also make a second bin or box next to the other one. Because such bins have the habit or filling up. This second bin should be labelled: unclaimed laundry from the lost laundry bin at the end of the month goes in this bin. The contents of this bin are donated to Goodwill on Labor day and Christmas.
That sounds good, Maastricht. The company I work at now (and others in the past) has a policy on the work fridge - cleaned out every Friday. Leave your stuff in there if you like - it’ll get dumped in the garbage come Friday and you know it.
I just don’t care enough to do more than what I did, really. I will never get the gumption up to actually bag anything to take it anywhere, even if it was properly endorsed by the management company and proper signage was posted with proper time allotment.
I’m just happy the clothes are out of my way. I feel a little happy to see the washers and dryers unadorned by piles of abandoned clothes. The pile I made is still there, BTW, untouched since I dropped it there four days ago.
You probably don’t have a proper clothing stockpile set up. Without one, clothes have a tendency to pile up next to their associated washing workshop. Designate one in an unoccupied area of your fortress and a dwarf should come along momentarily to haul away the offending clothes.
Using a red pencil to mark all the grammar, diction, & spelling mistakes on that print job, and then thumbtacking it up on the wall above the printer tends to reduce the number of abandoned print jobs.
And it gives everyone in the office something to look at & laugh while waiting for the printer.