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I did several posts on cheap laundry recently, but I forgot to mention two things.
I talked about thinking out of the box when it comes to drying solutions and gave several suggestions. However, I forgot to mention this one…if you run out of room on your line or your drying rack, try draping some [...]
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A napkin alternative
Admittedly, this is more of a green thing than a frugal thing since napkins aren’t terribly expensive. But, they’re not free and so using less of them will save money. Plus, you can feel good about saving some trees by cutting down on your napkin usage(personally, I’d much rather give up napkins [...]
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This is sort of backwards, I know! I should have talked about the benefits of line-drying and then done the how-to post. Oh well. This is what happens when you blog with no plan.
Of course, the main reason that I line-dry is that it saves money. The amount [...]
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Living(mostly) without the dryer
A number of years ago, when I was newly married, I was reading The Complete Tightwad Gazette and I came across the part about line-drying. I’ll admit that I kind of rolled my eyes and thought how ridiculous it was to give up using a dryer. Of course, at that point in [...]
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Tomorrow, I’ll talk about line-drying, but today I’m going to share a not-so-successful thing I did recently. A year or so ago, I read about how to make homemade laundry detergent on The Simple Dollar. The thought of mixing up a 5 gallon bucket was overwhelming to me, though, so I [...]
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Or maybe just a few laundry days, depending on how much I have to say!
Since the Horrible Electric Rate Increase happened in our area, my husband and I have been trying really hard to reduce the amount of electricity we use. We figure there’s nothing we can really do about the rate we [...]
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Not only do I have an honest-to-goodness clothesline, I now am the proud owner of some clothespins. I’ve been trying to pick up a package of these for some time now, but everywhere I check, they’re always out of stock(perhaps line-drying has become popular in this part of the US?). Happily, I [...]
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Guess what I finally have??
An honest-to-goodness clothesline!! Woohoo! Motivated by a huge increase in electric rates, I’ve been air-drying(see, I can’t even say line drying) our clothes for about a year now, using a combination of two folding drying racks, hangers, and our deck railings(!). This has sufficed, but I’m thrilled to have a clothesline now. This gives me [...]
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