Air Dry Your Laundry
If large, Amish families can manage to do it, so can you
Each load you hang prevents about 5 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere and saves about 50 cents on your electricity bill, says Sanjayan Muttulingam, lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy. That "is not frivolous. It really does make a difference," says Muttulingam, who drapes his newly washed running clothes over a drying rack in his basement. Ada Fisher, 82, who hung the laundry of her 16-member Lancaster County Amish family for decades, advises newbies to hang shirts upside down so that wind and gravity press them nicely. She recommends traditional all-wood clothespins because the springs in the new ones can wear out.
Reader Comments
Best Indoor Drying Rack
I live in an apartment and I found a great way to air dry my laundry. A few weeks ago I found this product AirDry, it's a laundry rack that mounts to the ceiling and it's not using any floor space. I installed it over my bath tub. I think the website is: http://www.airdry.org
Hang Dry Clothes ---- ahhhhh choo!
I found hanging my clothes increase my allergy symtoms and also increases the amount of dusting and vacuuming I do in my home. What is saved in dryer cost is eventually spent on vacuuming from my carpets what would have been caught in the lint collector on my dryer. Is air drying clothes a true savings?
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