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Trying To Get By

Trying To Get By
On their first full day out of their tents now living for a week at Gene's Motel, Ginger Sweeney and her husband Nick Sweeney wash the families clothing at a local laundry. Using five largest capacity washers and dryers, the cost to the family was nearly $20.

"If you watch the dryers, people will pull their clothes out with time still left on the machine, and if you put a quarter in before the time runs out you get 12 minutes of time, if you let the time run out and put a quarter in you only get 8 minutes on that quarter," says Ginger Sweeney.

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Trying To Get By<br /> On their first full day out of their tents now living for a week at Gene's Motel, Ginger Sweeney and her husband Nick Sweeney wash the families clothing at a local laundry. Using five largest capacity washers and dryers, the cost to the family was nearly $20.<br /> <br /> "If you watch the dryers, people will pull their clothes out with time still left on the machine, and if you put a quarter in before the time runs out you get 12 minutes of time, if you let the time run out and put a quarter in you only get 8 minutes on that quarter," says Ginger Sweeney.