I’m dubious about this article. When I was in college 20 years ago, do you know how many times I bought dryer sheets? I didn’t do dryer sheets until I was married. Me and everybody else.
College students living like pigs is nothing new. There were a lot students whose parents lived a few hours away. They would pack up all their dirty laundry, haul it back to mommy who lived 3 hours away, she’d spend the whole weekend doing his laundry, then he’d haul it all back to the dorms on Sunday night.
The mormon students were the worst for not being able to fend for themselves. In their households, mommy and the daughters did all the cleaning. When they got to college, they were aghast at being expected to wash their dishes and any cleaning whatsoever. Most of them didn’t even know what the hell Comet and Pine-Sol were. Seeing them trying to work the clothes washer was total comedy.