Seems like a logical follow up to the clothes washing post for saving some cash, especially considering that switching up the drying part of your laundering routine is where can be found the lion's share of savings.
And it couldn't be any easier done, simpler even than diddling around with the clothes dryer and the perma fluff high heat low delicate whatnot dials and buttons. Personally I always just left mine on however it was when I got it and let it run until the clothes were dry. Never monkeyed around with figuring out the differences, seemed to work out all right.
But yeah, easier still is good old fashioned air drying your washing instead of putting it through the dryer. It uses none of the electricity and sometimes also gas, and requires no special equipment to get the job done. Unless you splurge on a clothes drying rack like the one in the picture (my granny used to have one) or from any other style out there.
It's a handful of bucks that will save you fists full of dollars over time. Or ante up for some cheap clothesline and string that up outside; nothing is better than line-dried clothes when the weather allows, I'll tell you what. Go really tight-wad like me and hang your washing wherever you find some space, it all works. And it's all free.
The dryer is typically the second-biggest electricity-using appliance after the refrigerator, costing about a hundred bucks to operate each year, give or take depending on how things stack up at your place. Not a bunch taken by itself maybe, but we're thinking big picture here, not to mention helping save the environment has to count for something.
A little on the drying side of things, a bit more on the front end washing and stay tuned, I'm sure we'll discover even more chicken feed to be had in the customary day-to-day groove we all manage as we go along here. Trust me, it all adds up.
And it couldn't be any easier done, simpler even than diddling around with the clothes dryer and the perma fluff high heat low delicate whatnot dials and buttons. Personally I always just left mine on however it was when I got it and let it run until the clothes were dry. Never monkeyed around with figuring out the differences, seemed to work out all right.
But yeah, easier still is good old fashioned air drying your washing instead of putting it through the dryer. It uses none of the electricity and sometimes also gas, and requires no special equipment to get the job done. Unless you splurge on a clothes drying rack like the one in the picture (my granny used to have one) or from any other style out there.
It's a handful of bucks that will save you fists full of dollars over time. Or ante up for some cheap clothesline and string that up outside; nothing is better than line-dried clothes when the weather allows, I'll tell you what. Go really tight-wad like me and hang your washing wherever you find some space, it all works. And it's all free.
The dryer is typically the second-biggest electricity-using appliance after the refrigerator, costing about a hundred bucks to operate each year, give or take depending on how things stack up at your place. Not a bunch taken by itself maybe, but we're thinking big picture here, not to mention helping save the environment has to count for something.
A little on the drying side of things, a bit more on the front end washing and stay tuned, I'm sure we'll discover even more chicken feed to be had in the customary day-to-day groove we all manage as we go along here. Trust me, it all adds up.
I stopped using my dryer in the summer, but now that it's winter here, we started using it again, because it's too cold to hang clothes on the line. We have cut back on usage, by also using a drying rack. If you air dry, make sure you use fabric softener. I love the smell of clothes from the line. I can't wait until spring.
ReplyDeleteI use my dryer and my clotheslines. When it's cold out, I redirect the dryer vent back into our house with a gadget you can buy at the hardware store. It adds a little heat and a lot of needed moisture back into our winter-time dry house. In the summer I line dry as much as I can. Like you, I don't use fabric softener. Maybe a little white vinegar in the rinse or maybe not. My husband will use dryer sheets in the winter to cut static, but that's his decision when he does the laundry. I don't use them myself.
ReplyDeleteThe redirect is a great idea if the set-up is where one can do that. I kind of discovered that by accident, when I had my own house, because there was really nowhere to vent the dryer so it kind of just collected inside. I noticed particularly in the winter that extra moisture helped a lot, warmer, too. I figure it's probably not recommended for some reason, but it worked for me.
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