[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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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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