Fabric softener is a scam
Fabric softener is a scam
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UK person: dryer?
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Welsh person: no dryer?
(For our foreign friends - it rains eight days a week here...)
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I'm on the southern coast of Wales. I have a dehumidifier.
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That just seems like a heat pump dryer with extra steps.
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It helps my laundry dry and keeps the house from feeling damp too. Nothing like high relative humidity inside a house to make the cold cling to the skin!
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Yeah, dryers themselves are a waste of both money and energy.
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Depends. They do save on space, which is why it's so weird that most US people have them and europeans who generally have much smaller homes usually don't.
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My drying rack takes a bit of room for 24h every 2 weeks and folds to non-existence between loads, so I don't really share that logic.
Plus, it does not try to compete with my water tank on electricity consumption.
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I think family size is the kicker. My kids are really active and exploratory. So residue and odor leaves me needing to do multiple loads a week. I know scientifically when it comes to bacteria and odor I could do the deep freeze/freezer thing....but I just can't.
There are some items we have to hang dry. Those I can keep on the one hanging rack. If I did it for everything though my 3-4 loads a week means my office/desk/craft space is now basically permanently occupied by laundry. Summer is more feasible......that's only three months of consitent +13 C for my area though. :'(
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IDK your living situation, but that "bit of room" might be a lot in smaller homes. My first room as a college student wouldn't even fit a full-size drying rack, and it was definitely in the way in most of my places since then. And it's going to be a lot more often than once every 2 weeks if there's more than one inhabitant, and depending on what how thick the clothes are and the air humidity, 24h is not enough to dry everything.
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Whilst I'd prefer not to have to hang my laundry I'm not willing to pay for that much electricity, particularly as I keep my shirts on hangers, so it's literally a case of moving them from one rack to another.
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How does having this massive machine save you space compared to a bit of string?
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The machine takes only about half as much space as the rack and it's easily stackable with a washing machine.
edit: I think you were actually referring to a clothesline instead of a rack? I never had a place to actually put up a clothesline, where do you put that? Straight through your bedroom?
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If you want a rack you can get collapsible clothes drying racks that just fold up to almost nothing. As far as a washing line, put it up anywhere, just need 2 hooks. Usually dry stuff outside on a line other than in winter, could have a few lines across the kitchen to hang stuff from if you wanted.
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And space
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