[Greenbuilding] drying clothes
Kathy Cochran
kathys_old_house at goldrush.com
Mon Aug 29 22:21:41 CDT 2011
This is a GREAT line! It made me feel so good when I hung my sheets out on
the clothes line this afternoon!
Kathy Cochran
San Andreas, California
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[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of natural
building
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 6:50 PM
To: Green Building
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] drying clothes
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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