Get Clean and Be Green!
By raincoasterThe following blog post is brought to you by Dr Boli. And before you chuckle, realize that there is a posh salon in my city that charges women $10 extra to sit outside with wet hair and one of those ridiculous facial tanning reflectors; they call it a “solar dry.”
August 24th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
But as I whined to my liberal fiance’, when I line-dry the laundry, cut the grass with a rotary mower, use rags instead of paper towels and take cloth bags to the grocery store because I am a frugal conservative and not a tree-hugger, I get no credit for doing these things. It’s the intention that matters, not the result.
August 24th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Nothing like a little extra sunshine to bleach your whites whiter, too. But 2 points:
1) Hope that you live where the neighbors and HOA won’t complain about the “eyesore.” Yes, there are gated communities in the US where this happens.
2) Most such devices have layers of lines. Hide the unmentionables on one of the inner lines behind, say, a sheet or a big shirt. Of course, if you would rather advertise the size of your butt (or the fact that you wear thongs), put those undies out front for all to see.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:15 am
I live in Vancouver. If I hung my clothes out to dry they’d be out there till next June.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:10 am
This Maritimer feels your pain, raincoaster. This past weekend were the first sunny days we’d had in over 3 weeks.
Regardless, I am definitely looking forward to having a proper clothesline once our house is constructed. I may still use the dryer for jeans, however. But sheets? Oh yeah…nothing nicer than line-dried bedding.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I’ve been bugging The Beard to build me a clothesline, but it looks like I’m going to have to do it myself.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Not allowed in most communities per HOA edicts. I was raised “green”. My parents had a window AC in their bedroom (the kids got to sweat it out). Clothes were line dried. Dishes were hand washed (in pans, not running water) Until the child labor left for college, modern amenities were lacking (why pay for a dishwasher when you had a free one???) I love line dried sheets but can’t per the community rules. I’m the weirdo that actually opens windows when the temperature drops below 80 degrees F in the summer. I put water trays out and drop the thermostat to 64 degrees on the heating system in the winter. I drive a Mini and switched to compact florescents 2 years ago. Our community is now getting ready to offer major discounts to people that cut their energy usage by 20%. Since I did this a long time ago, the only way I can do this is to sit in the dark. Sad but it doesn’t pay to be a pioneer anymore!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I had a roommate once who spent half his time scheming to take us “off the grid” meaning supplying our own power. Since I live in a downtown apartment in Raincouver, things like water wheels and solar panels were not options. There turned out to be several simple ways to do it, but they all required investments of $2000 or more and, as a lowly blogger, that’s not the kind of cash I have lying around.
Death by a thousand Hydro bills it is, then!
August 26th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Once upon a time I lived in Arizona with an infant and without a clothes dryer. Line drying is great, albeit hot, in the summertime; the clothes dry in no time flat, as long as the monsoons are in abeyance. Diapers, sheets, it was all good, except towels. Line-dried towels are about as soft and enveloping as cardboard.