Let It All Hang Out (to dry)
Spring is a great time to start thinking about line drying your clothes. Of your appliances, your clothes dryer is second biggest energy hog (behind your refrigerator). On average, drying your clothes costs $85/year, which doesn’t seem like a lot until you think about what that can add up to over the lifetime of your dryer: $1500 or more (numbers courtesy of CA’s Consumer Energy Center). By contrast, line drying your clothes costs your nothing–not to mention that it uses pure solar energy to get the job done.
Think you don’t have time to line dry your clothes, or that the piles of dirty laundry will add up? I have found that I am most successful at line drying when I wash and hang one load of laundry each day. On really hot summer days, you’ll find that some laundry dries in just a couple of hours.
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