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Question for warmer women

Do you hang yourlaundry out to dry?

  • I use fossil fuel to dry my laundry

    Votes: 6 46.2%

  • I hang my laundry out in the sun to dry.

    Votes: 7 53.8%
  • Total voters
    13
vesper said:
Why do you direct this at just women? Men do laundry too. I am not what you call a "warmer" but my appliances are energy efficient. Not everyone can dry clothes outside year round and others aren't permitted to have clotheslines in their yards. There is nothing worse than drying off with a towel that is line dried. You might as well use 220 grit sandpaper. There is nothing worse than putting on a pair of jeans that baked in the sun to dry. There is no such thing as permanent press when it is lined dried which means more energy and time is needed to iron everything. But after this administration gets done dumping piles of new regulations through the EPA chasing carbon footprints, many are going to find it too expensive to pay to heat/cool their homes, do laundry, light their homes or even afford themselves a hot bath. By the time they get done regulating livestock to reduce their flatulence which will result in an increase for meat and dairy products and the increase in energy cost to process any of our food, many will struggle to be able to afford to eat. Idiots.
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Yeesh, that's another great point. Towels tend to get hard when line dried, even sometimes in the dryer without fabric softener. I just love my fabric softener. What can I say? I'm a modern girl. ;)
 
sawyerloggingon said:
So how many of you AGW women that think we are warming the planet use a solar drier? My guess is 99% of you use fossil fuel to dry your laundry. This may set a record as the least responded to poll in DP history. People hate to admit their hypocrisy.:lol:


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Um... don't men do laundry in your world? I thought that was just being a grown-up.

Anyway, I do hang dry when it's not below freezing, and I did all the time when I lived in places where it rarely freezes. I also pay all of my electric money to wind power. I can't choose where my power comes from, but I can choose who gets my money.

Why do you assume we don't do things to lower our carbon footprint? That's about as stupid as assuming only women do laundry.
 
Yeah, with all the big trees that overhang my house and the caterpillars, my clothes would be stained brown from the caterpillar poop. It's really disgusting and it gets over everything. Also, my yard area is WAY too small. A clothes line with a bunch of clothes hanging out there would just look ghetto. Not practical for me in my current situation and location.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
So how many of you AGW women that think we are warming the planet use a solar drier? My guess is 99% of you use fossil fuel to dry your laundry. This may set a record as the least responded to poll in DP history. People hate to admit their hypocrisy.
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So only women do laundry?
 
Geoist said:
No. At least according to anyone who is 50+.
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So . . . all of those divorced men just wear dirty clothes I guess. :lol:
 
I do laundry. I use my almost brand new dryer to dry the clothes. I don't even have clothes pins, or a clothes line.
 
d0gbreath said:
I do laundry. I use my almost brand new dryer to dry the clothes. I don't even have clothes pins, or a clothes line.
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I don't any more either.
 
ChrisL said:
So . . . all of those divorced men just wear dirty clothes I guess. :lol:
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I knew some college students who would mail their soiled clothes to their mothers. :doh
 
Geoist said:
I knew some college students who would mail their soiled clothes to their mothers. :doh
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:lol: I'd mail them right back still soiled. Yup, I washed them. :mrgreen:
 
vasuderatorrent said:
What do you mean by fossil fuel? The Tennessee Valley Authority which provides power for North Alabama, parts of Tennessee and parts of Georgia is generated by a dam on the Tennessee River.

Some power is produced by nuclear energy. Not all electricity is created with coal. I am not an electrical engineer so I don't know how fossil fuel plays into the equation. Does all sources of electricity require the use of fossil fuels? If so, is it really 99%?
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Out here (BC) all electricity is hydro, which makes it solar since it's the sun that lifts the water up in the mountains above the dams.
 
I have a one bedroom condo that I rent out.

It's an attractive, good rental, but the building is older and they only had a downstairs laundry room when they built it. In the past, that was never a problem when renting the condo, but just in the past two years, every woman that calls about that rental asks if there is a washer/dryer in the unit itself. It became such an issue that I finally did install a washer/dryer in the unit, which seemed to really make it more attractive to potential renters.

I assumed that the concern was people were stealing women's laundry.

What I want to know is, who in Hell is stealing women's underwear, is it other women or unusual men? Don't the thieves concern themselves with sizes, etc? It seems strange to me.
 
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sawyerloggingon said:
All good points except that drying clothes is a HUGE use of fossil fuel that is easily avoided. Much easier to hang laundry out than to do it on a wash board.
If warmer broads can't even do this one tiny effort then they are truly disgusting and not to be taken seriously.
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Well, I don't know about the disgusting part. but I will agree that it's not that much work to hang clothes out to dry.

That's how most of our laundry gets dried.
 
Dragonfly said:
Depends on where you live and when. Some communities forbid hanging clothes out.

Some areas stink from pollution. Where I live often has a pungent smell of mushroom farms if the wind blows right.

Clothes dryers use more energy than clothes washers?
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 Ovens, stoves, and microwaves? Dishwashers? Vacuum cleaners? A/C and heating? Hot water heaters? Televisions and lights?
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Clothes dryers use a lot of energy. Think about it a little bit.
 
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