- Hanging out the wash isn't cheap. It cost $20 to buy the cheapest laundry drying rack I could find. I went with metal because the wooden one I had in college broke if you put anything heavy on it.
- A load of wet jeans weighs a lot - it strained my back to carry it up stairs and out to the back yard.
- I hung half outside and half inside at about 10 am this morning. It is now 6 pm and neither the inside jeans nor the outside jeans are dry yet. I am leaving for a meeting and can't leave them out any longer. I am going to have to bring them in and dry them in the dryer!
- My family needs their jeans load done in one day...we don't have any jeans to spare. So hanging out the jeans load is not a good option for us.
- I'm thinking the environmentalists that recommend this option as a good way to go green aren't doing a family's worth of laundry at a time.
- I'll try it again with a different load, but for now, I am convinced air drying the laundry isn't worth my time and effort....
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Air Drying the Jeans Load....
Some observations:
I got my laundry drying racks at IKEA for a good price...not useing them now but I am hanging my laundry and in this dry air the stuff is dry in 2 house but so are my eyes, nose, lips, hands, hell my while body. I have broken down and I am using my oil of olay face cream on my body and on the kids, it is the only think that will find the dry. Jeans dry in 3 hours. In michigan jeans will dry in 3 hours on this hot windy days so only another 3 months for you :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with your experiment results. I don't have much success with hanging jeans out to dry, either. Takes too long and they end up uncomfortably stiff.
ReplyDeleteI do, however, hang sheets, pillowcases, and some quilts out on the clothesline. They dry fairly quickly and hanging them out in the sun helps with bleaching any whites.
I don't hang towels out on the line because they become scratchy-stiff.
I don't have an electric clothes dryer - ours is a gas dryer and we run it on propane.
Whatever carbon expended on the dryer, I believe can be offset in other ways - like switching to CFL lights, unplugging appliances not in use, and washing in cold water.
Being carbon neutral is one thing, but being realistic is another. :)