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    1 month ago

    Or if line drying is not practical for you for whatever reason, consider a heat pump dryer as a compromise. It dries by dehumidification instead of heat (it condenses the moisture away and continuously blows dry air at your clothes) and uses a fraction of the energy (to the point that they use the standard North American 120v 15A plug and not the giant 240v one). Most models also don’t need to be vented so you won’t have a tube full of lint that can catch fire. Technology Connections likened them to accelerated line drying.

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      11 month ago

      But you use them for much longer… so it might be close to the same maybe?

      I didnt do the calculation but someome should.

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    that works wonders when you live in a hot, dry place. i’m back living in my hometown in northeastern brazil after spending 13 years in southern brazil, which is cold and damp 9 months of the year. since i’ve arrived i used the dryer only once. but back there it was hard to let them dry out in the air. you either used the dryer or accumulated dirty clothes, up to the point you were left without clean clothes and with a big potential rat nest.

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    21 month ago

    wait how the fuck else are you drying clothes?

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    11 month ago

    I haven’t used a dryer in years. I have one but I literally never use it.

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    01 month ago

    I’ve literally never hung clothes out to dry without at least one item getting shat on by a bird. Is this not a universal problem?

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      11 month ago

      From age 6 until 18, and age 33 to 45 I’ve line dried clothes, three seasons a year. I can recall one time a bird pooped on a bed sheet.

      Do you live below a pigeon roost or something?

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        11 month ago

        No, I live in the country. In the summertime the poops are purple and have blackberry seeds in them.

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        -11 month ago

        I grew up in poverty wearing air dried clothes every day of my childhood. One of the biggeat things i looked foward to soon as I started living my adult lif ena dpaying own own way was using the dryer like any normal sane person.