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paul wheaton wrote:And how much money one might save by having clothes that don't get worn out as fast.
You can eliminate almost 100% of your clothing budget by chosing sturdy clothes, acquiring from secondhand sources, not tumbling them in a hot dryer each time you wear them, and wearing them until they are completely worn out, rather than just "not new", but that's only going to work if you only need to protect your body from the elements.
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Delilah wrote:
While living in Charlotte NC, I made a suspended hanging clothes dryer out of bamboo to hang over the wood stove in my kitchen. I attached a simple drawing of it, unfortunately, I moved and didn't get pics of it. It raised and lowered from the ceiling through use of an eye hook (strong one) and a boat cleat I attached to the wall. I will say, that it worked well, but I had to keep the clothes weight balanced on it.
I also made some J shaped maple hooks to attach to it and used them to dry deer jerky over the stove.
When growing up at My Granny's home, she had a quilting rack suspended from the living room ceiling and the ladies would have quilting bees and make several over the course of a weekend. Thats what gave me the idea of using a hanging clothes drying rack for my kitchen.
In the movie "the Color Puple" a lowering hanging rack for kitchen pots and pans was shown in the kitchen. Maybe its just a southern thing, but many homes here usta have lowering racks in the kitchen to suspend the cast iron. I grew up seeing many of them.
hobbssamuelj wrote:
we use a dryer. i've tried to hang laundry in our basement, but it's just too muggy in my area and in my basement to keep the clothes from getting all musty and gnarly.
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paul wheaton wrote:
Here is another alternative: a small room and a dehumidifier: http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Clothes_dryer
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Expanding on that a bit, I would speculate that for a family of four, the cost of electricy for a clothes dryer for a year would be about $500.
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travis laduke wrote:
That looks easy enough to build. Hmmm...
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Marianne wrote:
Len,
How do you have the bed frame situated to hang the clothes?
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paul wheaton wrote:
Here is another alternative: a small room and a dehumidifier: http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Clothes_dryer
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Marianne wrote:
Len, it is dry, dry here, currently 40%. It's much more humid in the summer, but with winter heat, poof, it's gone. I would think that since you're adding shower steam into the room, that it'd be difficult to dry clothes in there. I'd suggest hanging the shirts further apart and jeans for sure, run them in the dryer on LOW with a couple of dry towels for at least 10 minutes before hanging them.
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