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Project Laundry List
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Project Laundry List uses words, images, and advocacy to educate people about how simple lifestyle modifications, including air-drying one’s clothes, reduce our dependence on environmentally and culturally costly energy sources.
Re: Clotheslines
It depends on how well the water has been spun out of them and how humid it is in the house. ( and the type of material) I have an excellent washer and a load of baby clothes can take a couple hours- or the towels 3+. I prefer to hang stuff inside overnight and the outside durring the day.
Carrie Anne
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Very good point - overnight is probably the best way to go and check your washer to see if it has a setting for the "spin" cycle. I always set mine to the highest setting and when the cloths come out, most of the water has been spun out and they tend to dry pretty quickly.
Hayden
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I've been hanging my clothes on a clothesline for the last six months. Since I live in Seattle and it is either raining or threatening rain, I usually hang clothes inside on a couple lines I have strung up. When it's sunny out I hang them up outside. I did buy a more "official" looking rack but haven't yet installed it. So, no matter where you live, you can certainly use a clothesline. You don't have to live in a sunny, warm climate!
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excellent point, crunchychicken (btw... LOVE your blog)... we're planning on heading up to beautiful seattle as soon as my 10-year-old heads off to college... so the idea of an indoor clothesline will (sort of soon) be right up my alley and serves as great info for those in other climates... you rock!
k
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I had my son-in-law put a clothes line up for me. Not only can I dry my clothes faster then in the dryer they smell so much nicer. After he had put the line up for me and I was hanging out my first load, it took me back to my childhood with my grandmother and mom hanging wash out. I live in Las Vegas/Henderson Nevada, and what surprises me the most is.....with all the sun Nevada gets nearly year round, that more people are using solar power. Especially sense our power bills just went up about 25.00 beginning June 1.
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Sometimes to move forward, you must look back. In this case, to the age-old practice of hanging your laundry out to dry. It was one of those ideas I tossed around for a while and, finally, acted upon.
Besides being kinder to the Earth and saving oodles of energy (you can save 700 pounds of carbon dioxide when you air dry your clothes for six months out of the year), clothes dried on lines last longer and smell better, too! Also, for whatever reason, kids just dig hanging the laundry. Bonus!
A couple of tips regarding clothelines: Plastic ropes won't sag like over time like regular ropes, and plastic clothespins last much longer than their wooden equivalents. Also, tossing your towels in the dryer for a few minutes after taking them down from the line will help make them softer and less stiff. Last, despite what your spouse thinks, birds will not hover, waiting for the opportunity to poop on your stuff (sheesh!)
I invested in an umbrella-type of clothesline (If you don't have much room, there are smaller and more compact versions), and I love it! I can get a entire load up in one hanging, it can easily be taken out and put away, and (at least during the warmer months) it doesn’t take any longer for the clothes to dry than if I’d tossed ’em in the dryer.
In addition, the clothes smell great and -- even better -- there's something wonderfully peaceful about taking a few minutes, out in the sunshine, to listen to the birds (no, they aren’t hovering!) while hanging laundry.
Granted, I feel like my grandmother but at least my skirt isn't pulled up under my armpits so I've got that goin' for me, which is nice...