ULPT: If you live in a building where you have to pay for the use of shared washer/dryer, look up your buildings washer/dryer model on eBay and order a key for it.
The key allows you to access the control panel that starts the cycle. Free laundry!
I sure thought I was at the time, haha! But I was not too clever about it. Had I taken half of each coin bin every time, my gambit would have been successful for far longer. As it was, because I emptied them completely every time, it wasn't more than a few months before maintenance caught on and installed different locks.