Archive for the 'saving electricity' Category
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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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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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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Cheap weather
In my part of the east coast, August is usually a miserable month weather-wise. Most days are in the mid 90s and the humidity hovers around 90%. It cools off a little bit at night, but the humidity just doesn’t go away. As a result, our electric bill is usually pretty high [...]
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