[Greenbuilding] drying clothes

[Benjamin Pratt]

"Most of the world doesn't use clothes dryers and somehow they manage."

Not a great argument. Much of the people in the world don't have
toilets, are malnourished, don't use birth control, don't have access
to an education or healthcare, etc ,etc, etc. Most of the people dn't
manage--at least their lives could be a whole lot better if  there
were any justice in the world....
I know those things are a lot more important than wrinkles. I'm just
trying to say that telling anyone that they should live as if they are
poor is not realistic.  Or maybe it's what we need to save the
planet--A huge worldwide depression leading to disease and a huge
reduction of the population
Ben




On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM, candtcampbell at juno.com
<candtcampbell at juno.com> wrote:
>>> I have not experimented with different detergents. My clothes are almost
>>> exclusively cotton and the city water probably is medium hard. But if I were
>>> to put a pair of blue jeans out to dry on a rack, I would expect the jeans
>>> to be so stiff when dry that they would almost stand by themselves.
>
>
>>Hm. You say you 'would expect' this. And I sense that your expectation would
>>be that this state of affairs would be unacceptable. I wonder if you tried
>>it (the drying on a rack, and putting the clothes on afterward) and report
>>back. Most of the world doesn't use clothes dryers and somehow they manage.
>
> I didn't say I couldn't manage. I'm trying to avoid potential problems before I consider investing in equipment.
>
>
>>>And badly wrinkled too. Underwear, flannel shirts and T shirts would fare no
>>> better.
>
>>I've washed all my laundry cold and dried it on the rack everywhere I've
>>lived. I've also never ironed anything except, very rarely, a shirt. I don't
>>go to weddings that often. I suppose I've been missing out all these years,
>>but honestly I'm not sure what the problem is that you've conjured in your
>>mind.
>
> As problems go, wrinkles are pretty insignificant. But if I can avoid them, I will, just to be socially acceptable.
>
>>that is not my experience with blue jeans and cotton shirts, and I've been
>>hanging clothes on the line for a long time.
>
>>Bob Waldrop, OKC
>
> If you are hanging outdoors, I would think that the breeze blowing would deal well with the wrinkles. But I would also think that you risk soiling by birds and insects.
>
>>Nor mine.  Nothing is stiff, and most of the wrinkles hang out.  Most of the >clothes are cotton.
>
> Don't the clothespins themselves create pinch marks?
>
>>(If you hang the shirts and pants upside down, and use 2 pins at the bottom >corners, there's often no need for an iron.)
>
> Excellent tip, thanks.
>
> Charles
>
>
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b e n j a m i n p r a t t

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the university of wisconsin stout