[Greenbuilding] drying clothes

[natural building]

What a wonderful analogy: You don't have a clothes dryer therefore you must be poor!

Does the same apply if I don't have an electric toothbrush, or if the cat-flap isn't automated, or if I actually have to manually push buttons on my heating system thermostat?

Wow I never realised how 'poor' I am! :)
But funny how good it feels!

In jest...
Steve Satow

www.naturalbuildingsite.net
naturalbuilding at shaw.ca

On 2011-08-29, at 5:09 PM, Benjamin Pratt wrote:

> "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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