[Greenbuilding] drying clothes

Benjamin Pratt benjamin.g.pratt at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 23:30:45 CDT 2011


Ok--I admit--that was a really stupid thing to say.
Ben

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Kathy Cochran
<kathys_old_house at goldrush.com> wrote:
> This is a GREAT line!  It made me feel so good when I hung my sheets out on
> the clothes line this afternoon!
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> Kathy Cochran
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> San Andreas, California
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> From: greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
> [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
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> What a wonderful analogy: You don't have a clothes dryer therefore you must
> be poor!
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> 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?
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> Wow I never realised how 'poor' I am! :)
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> But funny how good it feels!
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> In jest...
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> Steve Satow
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> www.naturalbuildingsite.net
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> naturalbuilding at shaw.ca
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> On 2011-08-29, at 5:09 PM, Benjamin Pratt wrote:
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> "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
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> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM, candtcampbell at juno.com
> <candtcampbell at juno.com> wrote:
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> I have not experimented with different detergents. My clothes are almost
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> exclusively cotton and the city water probably is medium hard. But if I were
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> to put a pair of blue jeans out to dry on a rack, I would expect the jeans
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> to be so stiff when dry that they would almost stand by themselves.
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> Hm. You say you 'would expect' this. And I sense that your expectation would
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> be that this state of affairs would be unacceptable. I wonder if you tried
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> it (the drying on a rack, and putting the clothes on afterward) and report
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> back. Most of the world doesn't use clothes dryers and somehow they manage.
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> I didn't say I couldn't manage. I'm trying to avoid potential problems
> before I consider investing in equipment.
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> And badly wrinkled too. Underwear, flannel shirts and T shirts would fare no
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> better.
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> I've washed all my laundry cold and dried it on the rack everywhere I've
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> lived. I've also never ironed anything except, very rarely, a shirt. I don't
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> go to weddings that often. I suppose I've been missing out all these years,
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> but honestly I'm not sure what the problem is that you've conjured in your
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> mind.
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> As problems go, wrinkles are pretty insignificant. But if I can avoid them,
> I will, just to be socially acceptable.
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> that is not my experience with blue jeans and cotton shirts, and I've been
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> hanging clothes on the line for a long time.
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>
> Bob Waldrop, OKC
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> 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.
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> Nor mine.  Nothing is stiff, and most of the wrinkles hang out.  Most of the
>>clothes are cotton.
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> Don't the clothespins themselves create pinch marks?
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> (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.)
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> Excellent tip, thanks.
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>
> Charles
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