Comments on: A Fairly Simple Way To Save Millions In Energy http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2008/04/14/a-fairly-simple-way-to-save-millions-in-energy/ Organic Grocery Market, Shop Local, Small Farms, Family Farms Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kathy Francis http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2008/04/14/a-fairly-simple-way-to-save-millions-in-energy/#comment-14808 Kathy Francis Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:40:51 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=835#comment-14808 I've been hanging my clothes on a line for years. I love the fresh scent. I've hung my clothes on a line in the summer and went back in an hour to take them off and the clothes were DRY. I've hung my clothes up on what looked like a rainy day and came home from work just in time to get them in DRY as the raindrops started to fall. My clothes do not shrink. My clothes last longer. And my clothes do not have the strong, unnatural scent of those dryer sheets that keeps you from smelling anything else. I’ve been hanging my clothes on a line for years. I love the fresh scent. I’ve hung my clothes on a line in the summer and went back in an hour to take them off and the clothes were DRY. I’ve hung my clothes up on what looked like a rainy day and came home from work just in time to get them in DRY as the raindrops started to fall. My clothes do not shrink. My clothes last longer. And my clothes do not have the strong, unnatural scent of those dryer sheets that keeps you from smelling anything else.

]]> By: Teresa Sue Hoke-House http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2008/04/14/a-fairly-simple-way-to-save-millions-in-energy/#comment-5387 Teresa Sue Hoke-House Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:18:55 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=835#comment-5387 I don't want to go to heaven if there aren't any clotheslines there! Lol! Nothing is more beautiful as a clothesline full of clothes, sheets, and quilts flapping in the breeze, and the smell of those fresh clothes,is, well, priceless. There is an art to hanging out clothes. Pinning them just so-so. Making sure the t-shirts and sweatshirts don't have their hems pulled all whacky. Having them hanging so perfectly that when you un-pin them, they are wrinkle free. I'll take a clothesline or a drying rack any day. The mall rats can have my dryer. I don’t want to go to heaven if there aren’t any clotheslines there! Lol! Nothing is more beautiful as a clothesline full of clothes, sheets, and quilts flapping in the breeze, and the smell of those fresh clothes,is, well, priceless.

There is an art to hanging out clothes. Pinning them just so-so. Making sure the t-shirts and sweatshirts don’t have their hems pulled all whacky. Having them hanging so perfectly that when you un-pin them, they are wrinkle free. I’ll take a clothesline or a drying rack any day. The mall rats can have my dryer.

]]> By: Ken http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2008/04/14/a-fairly-simple-way-to-save-millions-in-energy/#comment-5030 Ken Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:26:50 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=835#comment-5030 Kathy I truly believe that one reason people have so many alergies now a days is that we are not exposed to things like we use to be. We live in bubbles, people go right from air conditioning to heat and vice versa, we almost never opens windows any more. We protect our infants FROM EVERY THING, it's amazing the human species has survived this long if you listen to the evening news. So to your point, I think years ago as infants we developed resistance to pollens and such by sleeping on clothes hung outside. Kathy I truly believe that one reason people have so many alergies now a days is that we are not exposed to things like we use to be. We live in bubbles, people go right from air conditioning to heat and vice versa, we almost never opens windows any more. We protect our infants FROM EVERY THING, it’s amazing the human species has survived this long if you listen to the evening news.
So to your point, I think years ago as infants we developed resistance to pollens and such by sleeping on clothes hung outside.

]]> By: Deanna Vazquez http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2008/04/14/a-fairly-simple-way-to-save-millions-in-energy/#comment-4692 Deanna Vazquez Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:15:33 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=835#comment-4692 THANK YOU SO MUCH for this! I am an Australian living in the United States and it has always astonished me how every single household in the US has a dryer and no-one has a clothesline! I find it disturbing that everything gets washed in the machine, moved straight to the dryer then folded and put away, never to see the light of day or a breath of fresh air! How stale. We were confined to a small cottage until last year, when we bought a wonderful property with a big yard. How wonderful it feels to be able to have clothes hanging between the trees, getting sun-bleached and dried with simple, fresh air. Hardly anyone in my family back in Australia has a dryer and even if they do, they are used only on the wettest days when one cannot avoid using them (running out of towels, for example). Everyone has a clothesline and no-one expects any different. It all comes down to what you're used to. Pollution? Ridiculous! There is nothing better than fresh air and pure sunlight to make one's sheets and pillowcases smell and feel wonderfully fresh! THANK YOU SO MUCH for this! I am an Australian living in the United States and it has always astonished me how every single household in the US has a dryer and no-one has a clothesline! I find it disturbing that everything gets washed in the machine, moved straight to the dryer then folded and put away, never to see the light of day or a breath of fresh air! How stale.

We were confined to a small cottage until last year, when we bought a wonderful property with a big yard. How wonderful it feels to be able to have clothes hanging between the trees, getting sun-bleached and dried with simple, fresh air.

Hardly anyone in my family back in Australia has a dryer and even if they do, they are used only on the wettest days when one cannot avoid using them (running out of towels, for example). Everyone has a clothesline and no-one expects any different.

It all comes down to what you’re used to. Pollution? Ridiculous! There is nothing better than fresh air and pure sunlight to make one’s sheets and pillowcases smell and feel wonderfully fresh!

]]> By: Barb http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2008/04/14/a-fairly-simple-way-to-save-millions-in-energy/#comment-2575 Barb Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:36:58 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=835#comment-2575 I used a clothesline when my kids were babies, and it always had a long row of cloth diapers and rubber pants hanging on it. I still use it today and besides the economical benefits of line drying, it looks warm and homey. I used a clothesline when my kids were babies, and it always had a long row of cloth diapers and rubber pants hanging on it. I still use it today and besides the economical benefits of line drying, it looks warm and homey.

]]> By: Thaddeus Dombrowski http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2008/04/14/a-fairly-simple-way-to-save-millions-in-energy/#comment-2423 Thaddeus Dombrowski Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:21:27 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=835#comment-2423 I live in Phoenix. My wife and I use a clothesline. It amazes me that more people don't do it. We live inside of a giant natural clothes drier -- the Sonoran Desert. Often during summer, by the time I finish hanging the last of the clothes the first pieces are ready to be taken down. Our clothes smell fresh. I don't think clothes from a mechanical drier smell as good. I lived in Africa for a couple of years as a Peace Corps volunteer. A beautiful sight was all of the clothes from a village hung out to dry on a sunny Saturday morning. The Basotho (the people of Lesotho) wear blankets year round. During the summer it is to protect from the sun. During the winter it is to protect from the cold. Their blankets were very colorful. You would see the clothes and blankets hanging on wire fences. I miss that. I live in Phoenix. My wife and I use a clothesline. It amazes me that more people don’t do it. We live inside of a giant natural clothes drier — the Sonoran Desert. Often during summer, by the time I finish hanging the last of the clothes the first pieces are ready to be taken down.

Our clothes smell fresh. I don’t think clothes from a mechanical drier smell as good.

I lived in Africa for a couple of years as a Peace Corps volunteer. A beautiful sight was all of the clothes from a village hung out to dry on a sunny Saturday morning. The Basotho (the people of Lesotho) wear blankets year round. During the summer it is to protect from the sun. During the winter it is to protect from the cold. Their blankets were very colorful. You would see the clothes and blankets hanging on wire fences. I miss that.

]]> By: Gene Logsdon http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2008/04/14/a-fairly-simple-way-to-save-millions-in-energy/#comment-1624 Gene Logsdon Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:13:28 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=835#comment-1624 To Kathy, Mary, Steve, Valerie, ed, S, and Tom, Very much enjoyed all your interesting comments. Yes, S, I too have often heard clotheslines looked down upon as something for the poor. So too with burning wood to heat a home, or putting a standing seam metal roof on your house. Some quite wealthy people around here burn wood, and a standing seam roof is often the choice of the rich because they cost so much and last so long. Strange world we live in. Gene Logsdon To Kathy, Mary, Steve, Valerie, ed, S, and Tom, Very much enjoyed all your interesting comments. Yes, S, I too have often heard clotheslines looked down upon as something for the poor. So too with burning wood to heat a home, or putting a standing seam metal roof on your house. Some quite wealthy people around here burn wood, and a standing seam roof is often the choice of the rich because they cost so much and last so long. Strange world we live in. Gene Logsdon

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