Easy Peasy Tip: Hang Up Your Laundry!
By tinychoices | October 13, 2007
Next time you’ve finished washing your laundry, make the tiny choice to forgo using the dryer (and those nasty dryer sheets as well), and instead hang up your sparkling-clean threads to air dry. Dryers use immense amounts of electricity, increase the risk of home fires, and reduce the lifespan of your clothing (ever wonder where all that “dryer lint” comes from? It’s, um, particles of your clothes.)
For those living in small spaces, folding wooden laundry racks, wall-mounted retractable racks, and single retractable lines are good drying solutions, and there’s also been a bit of lust around the Tiny Choices way for a ceiling-mounted rack. Those of you with backyards can hearken back to the good olde days of our foremother washer-women and install an umbrella-style laundry rack. Also doubles as a May Pole for good Pagan-style fun.
Who knew: There’s a growing “Right to Dry” movement across the U.S.of A., because it turns out that many communities have banned the once-ubiquitous backyard clothesline. This lands right at the top of our WHAT?!?! Files.
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Thanks for the link to Right to Dry — today I got a revised list of homeowners’ association rules for my neighborhood that prohibit clotheslines.
No way! Keep us posted on the outcome for your neignborhood…
I hate the dryer..So I have a line in my laundry room…ie spare kitchen area (live in an old duplex) and just dry for a few minutes and then hand the clothes on hangers and hang on the line.
Thank you for the links! I’ve been pining over those folding racks, but to be honest, we don’t have the room in our little apartment to store them, even folded. I like the idea of the retractable one though. I’ll definitely have to look into getting one of those!
I lived in an apartment whose forced-air heating was extremely dry in winter, so I accomplished 2 things by hanging my laundry to dry iside: I dried my laundry for free without worrying that someone else would touch it, and I humidified the air and kept us all healthy!