Re: people catching up now?

i have never owned an iron or used one on any garment other fabric/textile
thing of mine in my adult-independent life.  because i don't like to iron.
some of reason goes to bad associations from before i was 10 yrs old.  just
some.

i don't have a drier.  to access one i must travel 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile.
during times when i owned a drier or when one that operated by deposits of
quarters, the coins, was in an apt. building where i lived, i so prefer(ed)
results from hanging laundry outside that i rarely ever used the drier.
when i did it was only for bed sheets and bath towels.  even in winter, i
hung my clothes inside, on racks or lines that i put up over radiators.
besides drying the laundry, that indoor method for winter humidified my home
so that i didn't get little shocks of static electricity or dried out nose &
consequent congestion.

i'm allergic to those fabric softener drier sheets & the solutions that
are produced to be added to wash so that even if i slept on a sheet that had
been dried in a cycle immediately after somebody else used one of those
sheets, i broke out in hives.

so, mainly, for as many yrs as i can remember of my adult living i've dried
almost all of my laundry by hanging it.  and simply hanging it seemed/seems
enuf  for me in terms of preventing wrinkles.  in fact, stuff dries
exceedingly flat.  that's why i used a drier for towels -- air drying
caused them to get too stiff.  they were uncomfortable; scratchy.  otoh, for
sheets it's kinda like having them ironed, which i think of as luxurious.
that nice, super smooth feel.  also, by the time i use them they're cooled
down, you know -- from the heat of the sun...  nice, fresh-air scented,
refreshingly cool, super smooth bed sheets.  since i don't have a drier now,
all i hafta do about the towels is toss em around  a bit before i fold em up
for the linen closet.

i don't plan to get a drier unless i get too weak/disabled to be
able to hang the laundry, then take it down & fold it (which i am on
occasion, so i hafta think about it...  ick!).  on top of getting the
perfect results that i want for my clean laundry by air drying it, i have a
drastically lower electric bill than my neighbors & i'm not contributing all
that stuff to air pollution.  around my parts, anyway, weather forecasters
suggest that folk don't use driers during the peak sunlight hours of summer,
right along w/their  warnings about filling gas tanks of cars at that time
to prevent ozone conversion in the air.  & then there's other $$ savings,
over the years that add up to something worthy of consideration, for not
buying & replacing irons; not using the electricity for ironing; for not
purchasing any kinda fabric softening anything; for not purchasing &
maintaining/replacing humidifiers; &, guess what!  fabric lasts a whole
bunch longer when it isn't put thru drying in those machines! (i've got
jeans that are 15 yrs old!  & jean styles seem to me to recycle around every
3 - 5 yrs.   but, i don't even care about that.  i just wear whatever fits
comfortably!)

please forgive me if i strayed from some more serious topic
that this laundry stuff developed from as a metaphor.  i've just been
scrolling thru asd & opening this & that post trying to "catch up." 
since
this post has that subject as a header i opened it.  i did notice that it's
insida thread, but i don't have time & energy, right away, to read the whole
thing.  i think that this topic seems like some innocuous sorta
semi-playfulness...  anyway, that is the spirit in which i offer my own
honest, historical laundry day experience.

trill

"Nahanton" <Nahanton@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:2007092122230816807-Nahanton@comcastnet...
> On 2007-09-21 20:42:23 -0400, jill@tuells.org () said:
>
>> In article <Pine.BSI.4.64.0709210435150.23286@malasada.lava.net>,
>> astri  <invalid@example.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Baba Yaga wrote:
>>>> jill@tuells.org () wrote, in alt.support.dissociation:
>>>>
>>>>> I solved that problem by buying a wiz bang fancy shmancy dryer that
>>>>> has some sort of 'wrinkle remover' setting. I put the stuff in, dry
>>>>> them for x amount of time and then take them out asap and hang them
>>>>> on a hanger. TA DA No need to iron. Of course it means one needs to
>>>>> own a dryer and pay for the wiz bang feature. *wry grin*
>>>>
>>>> And for the electricity.  (It occasionally works out more economical
>>>> to use the dryer for a short burst, instead of ironing, but very
>>>> rarely.)
>>>>
>>>> And not to mind the damage to the planet.  We do, a lot.
>>>
>>> when we lived in the phoenix area, we never used a dryer (except maybe
>>> for
>>> jeans and sheets).  hung everything on racks outside.  dried faster that
>>> way, especially in the summer.
>>>
>>> wouldn't work here.
>>>
>>> -- astri
>>
>> I used to do that but here we have two problems. One is animals
>> mess with the laundry sometimes (like deer eat it!) if it's
>> within their reach and two, fritz had allergies so his stuff
>> can't be hung outside anyway. I do hang stuff inside as I
>> have room.
>>
>> Rainbow Colors (Jill)
>
> Do the ELK eat laundry too???
>
> Nahanton
>
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