Kittens dry really fast if there's a good breeze, mom always says

Kittens dry really fast if there's a good breeze, mom always says

Do you feel like your house is sucking away all your every time you turn on a lamp or run the ? I don’t know what it is exactly that instilled this fear in me, but I’m going to assume it was my mother (Love you, mom!).

As kids, we hung our clothes to dry on the line — which was the most exhausting task for my little arms (wet jeans are the worst!). Why did we do this? There was a perfectly good machine in the basement, but mom insisted that as long as it wasn’t raining or snowing (and even then, there were exceptions), we had to hang our clothes on the line. Mom was on to something — it saves a ton of .

Now that I have grown up and have my very own hydro bill, I can attest to the notion of doing away with the altogether. So I hang/drape my clothes to dry. Sadly, I have no little-armed kids to carry out the task for me, heh.

  1. Set your   a few degrees lower in the winter and a few degrees higher in the summer to save on heating and cooling costs.
  2. Install compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) when your older incandescent bulbs burn out.
  3. Unplug when you’re not using them. Or, use a “smart” power strip that senses when are off and cuts “phantom” or “vampire” use.
  4. Wash clothes in cold water whenever possible. As much as 85 percent of the used to machine-wash clothes goes to heating the water.
  5. If you absolutely must use a , consider adding balls to cut drying time.

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