Our dryer finally done broke. (Yes, hick vernacular, you will see why).
My mother in law has a spare dryer but it is 102 degrees out where she is at so....
I'm drying my clothes on a line.
With a husband, myself (duh) and two boys, we have A LOT of laundry. I feel like I am job shadowing Sister Wives.
So we have three lines criss-crossing our back yard with our laundry out for all to see, even our underwear.
What have I learned from almost two weeks without a dryer?
Well, I am indeed curious how my energy bill will fare; how much I will save.
It takes time to hang each individual item. Tossing them in the dryer is so much faster and careless.
But hanging clothes is kind of...Zen.
In a world where it is rush rush rush and now now now- we even get mad if wikipedia takes to long to load..... slowing down and hanging laundry is kind of...nice. You can take a break from kids. You can think to yourself. You can enjoy the sunshine. You realize the time you are spending would've been spent surfing the web or texting or watching tv, things that take up so much time that we don't notice.
I don't like the crunchy towels, wrinkled shirts, stiff underwear, but the time taken to hang and take off laundry is quite nice. You should try it. And, you can piss off your passive aggressive weekender neighbors by hanging underwear on the line closest to their windows ;-)
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