We recently bought and installed a Hills Supafold clothes line on the side of our house. It has ample room for two washes, and given the weather here in N. California it’s at most an hour before we have lovely dry, fresh-scented clothes. All for almost $0. Which leads me to the point of this post….around 36 people live in Califonia in approx 12m households and yet very few of those have washing lines. My exhaustive research, which entailed asking a sales clerk in Bath and Beyond how many packets of pegs they sold each week, leads me to conclude that virtually no one has clothes lines (BTW just finding a store that sells pegs is a challenge!).
What with the rising cost of utilities and increasing awareness of our carbon footprint its deplorable that more people haven’t ditched their costly clothes dryers. I reckon a clothes dryer costs around $2 in electricity per load – which means that we only have to do around 120 loads before we are saving money – or about 14 months in our 4 person household! The ROI is far better than pretty much any other attempt to lower utility bills. Maybe the govt should have a program to encourage folks to help the planet rather than one to help them buy new cars which only harm it.
