"Mark this down in your calendar: April 19 is National Hanging Out day, which is not about slackers but about hanging out your slacks, a celebration of the clothesline as an alternative to the dryer. Founded by clothesline activist Alexander Lee of laundrylist.org, it champions "the right to dry" which many people do not have due to building regulations and restrictive covenants prohibiting "ugly" clotheslines. Yet clothes dried on lines last longer, smell better and save you a lot of money.
There are 88 million dryers in America, and if everyone converted to lines it could reduce residential output of CO2 by 3.3%. “It’s a huge waste of energy to tumble dry your clothes,” said Tom Arnold, chief environmental officer of TerraPass. “It’s one of the simplest things to do to help with global warming.” ::New York Times"
I know Emily already does this... I am going to give it a try. I already have the line and clothespins...
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At the very least I could do it on April 19th, although I don't have lines or pins... My grandparents have tons of pins, so I could borrow those. But where would I hang a line... Hmmm, I may have to improvise. But I am in!
Good for you Jennifer! I think you will find it's actually kind of fun. Cameron and I started doing this when we bought our first house together in 2003 and it came with a heavy duty clothesline in the backyard. At first we thought "how ugly" but then we really started enjoying the fact that we could save so much energy by hanging our laundry and I thought it was kind of fun.
When we bought our house in SR, there was no clothesline waiting for us so Cameron strung one up in the garage. This way it doesn't bother the neighbors (if they were to be bothered) and its right next to our washing machine. We just leave the garage door open during the day and the clothes are usually dry in about half a day or less. I usually throw all the wet clothes in a basket and then have Noah hand them to me one by one while I hang. It makes him feel like he's "helping" and gives us an activity. I am very encouraged by all your "one a days". Thank you!
Sarha gets the props for this one-a-day! That was a great post, and it's on my list of things to do too.
I know this was a while ago, but I am way behind in my reading here. Anyway, I'd love to participate (even though I missed the 4/19 date). Sequoia will FREAK if we have a clothesline. Too TP for him. (this is from that childhood thing I mentioned on another post) I'll see if I can ever get it done. Maybe I can bargain on towels and sheets... no "unmentionables!" :-)
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