Re: A comprehensive guide to green laundry

Thank you for all this current information, we all need to relearn how to do our chores using less energy. I do want to add one tip to the HANGING YOUR LAUNDRY SECTION: I sort of blundered into this over the last couple of years.

Years ago I started taking all our hangers from the closets to the laundry room to hang the laundry as soon as I removed it from the dryer, lots less wrinkles and the hangers were color coded for each family member. Then life came along and kicked me and I was too sick and too weak to carry the laundry back up stairs hanging or in a basket. I thought about the problem for a couple of weeks then I decided that if I went slowly I could still do the laundry I just couldn't get it back upstairs and had no way to store it until my husband had time to take it up stairs. I figured it out; I had my husband put up those kind of shelves that are really for closets to hang your clothes hangers on, he put them around the room. I put our out of season clothes in boxes on the upper shelves and hang most of the laundry on the hangers on the bottom one. Then as time went on and I started looking for ways to use less of the earths energy not mine I started hanging the clothes while they are is still wet. The furnace and hot water heater are in a closet in this room so it is warm and dry and the clothes dry the day I wash and hang them. The large items go on a drying rack in the center of the room. I have found that while some items I air dry can be stiff if I put them in the dryer on fluff, cool not heated air for less than 5 minutes they are as soft as if I had dried them in the drier and uses a lot less energy. Also if you live in a warm climate I might add that in a lot of the world whites are dried by laying them over green shrubs/bushes in the yard, the sunlight and the green make them dry bright white.

Again thanks for putting this together for every one!