Thirty Days Dryer Free

Today marks day 30 of no dryer in my home, and I have to admit so far it has been easier than I thought. I probably average 15-20 large loads of laundry for my family of five, including towels and bedding... a fact I wasn't fully aware of before this for many reasons. In the past we were always to one extreme or another behind on laundry...

The weather plays a huge part in successful outside line drying. I say outside line drying because it is my preferred method, if for nothing else the smell of those clothes dried in the breeze and sunshine. So, for my family to be successful at living dryer free we need to do laundry every day there isn't rain. Rainy days are the only days in the last 30 I haven't line dried and I am completely caught up with all of our laundry.

I have enjoyed my time at the clothesline, the evenings and early mornings are a little chilly but having the whole neighborhood to myself here and there is kind of nice... they call it meditative, which for me line drying is.

Our next steps are to find the electrical vampires in our house and stabbing them to death with unplugging of unused items and purchasing of energy saving strips for our computers, TVs and gaming system... being diligent can net us another 10-20% savings on the electric bill... more money in our pockets, less CO2 gas into the air and I help lessen our need to strip this world of it's natural resources of oil and coal. More on that at another time.

Another change will be to reevaluate the products we use for cleaning... we need to be more aware of where the things we use come from and what their true environmental impact is.... many if not most of our cleaning products are either oil or animal based... I for one am not going to be a part of that anymore, again more on that later.

So the short of it is the first 30 days have been successful... now onto the next 30 which are colder.