{"id":1223,"date":"2012-07-19T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2012-07-18T23:32:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T04:32:25","slug":"major-moms-back-to-basics-campaign-30-days-almost-dryer-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/07\/major-moms-back-to-basics-campaign-30-days-almost-dryer-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Mom&#8217;s &#8220;Back to Basics&#8221; Campaign: 30 Days (Almost) Dryer-Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1224\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AmishClothesline.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1224 \" title=\"AmishClothesline\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AmishClothesline.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes like this grace the countryside throughout Lancaster County, and it got me thinking about line-drying our own clothes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just before I left for vacation in June, we got a power bill and it was a doozie! The weather had been warm so the air conditioner had been running at full-tilt, but as I always do after a higher-than-normal electric bill, I start to look for where to trim the excess power consumption:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Close my garage door: I have a habit of leaving our garage door open. \u00a0The morning sun comes screaming in heating up the space. \u00a0This makes our garage fridge work harder.<\/li>\n<li>Turn off extra lights. \u00a0MOST of our house uses CFL lightbulbs, but not all of them. \u00a0The bathrooms have many\u00a0incandescent\u00a0bulbs and we need to be better about turning them off.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use my big oven when I can use my toaster oven to do the same job. \u00a0If I&#8217;m just baking chicken breasts, I can pop them in <a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/03\/support-assistance-request.html\">our smaller toaster oven<\/a>, which does the same job in a smaller space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the biggest &#8212; or at least a top 3 &#8212; culprit is probably our clothes dryer. \u00a0I saw a couple friends take part in a 30-Day Dryer Challenge earlier this year and at the time I thought to myself &#8220;No! \u00a0Never!&#8221;, but after (a) this past power bill and (b) driving through the back roads of Lancaster County on a laundry day, I began to mellow to the thought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelbluejay.com\/electricity\/howmuch.html\"><!--more-->This website offers a lot of statistics and tips about home electricity use<\/a>. Pay no attention to creepy Mr. Electricity on the left-hand side. I&#8217;m not sold on the clothes washer using more energy than the dryer &#8212; I rarely use hot water to wash. I have a &#8220;sanitary&#8221; cycle on my washer which raises the wash water to 200F to kill germs on linens. I only use it every second or third washing for our bedding. Otherwise, I wash with warm and cold water.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t formally commit to a 30-Day Challenge, but I did think I could change our clothes dryer habits.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in West Virginia, my Dad took Dave and me to Costco and I found <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.costco.com\/2070\/11510163\/greenway-greenway-home-products-x-large-stainless-steel-fold-away-laundry-rack-reviews\/reviews.htm\">this awesome drying rack<\/a> (which appears to not be for sale at Costco anymore). \u00a0It turns out this can hold a whole load of the kids&#8217; laundry!<\/p>\n<p>Dave and I got home on June 20th and I&#8217;ve only needed to use the dryer\u00a0<em>four times\u00a0<\/em>in the past 30 days. \u00a0And really it&#8217;s more like 37 days because we didn&#8217;t use the dryer while on vacation, of course. \u00a0And that was due to bad weather keeping me from hanging the clothes outside.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, it isn&#8217;t any more difficult to drape my clothing on those racks than it is to move it from my washer to my dryer. It&#8217;s probably an additional 5 minutes per load of laundry. In trying to simplify my life, I don&#8217;t mind this.<\/p>\n<p>I can now fold the clothes as I take them off the drying racks and I can even pick the the clothes off the racks in the order I choose: pants, then shirts, then pajamas, then underclothing, then socks. (That&#8217;s the order I always fold our clothing, actually&#8230;largest to smallest items.)<\/p>\n<p>The kids can help &#8212; they&#8217;ve only been home a few days, so I&#8217;ve yet to send them outside with a load, but if my sister can enlist her sons&#8217; help with their clothesline, I think my kids will be inspired also.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint about this method is that the towels come in pretty stiff after hanging outside. I have to admit that the trip through the dryer, especially with one of those &#8220;Bounce&#8221; sheets, makes a far softer product. But no one else seems to mind&#8230;or at least they aren&#8217;t complaining to me vocally.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1225\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ClothesDryingRack.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1225 \" title=\"ClothesDryingRack\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ClothesDryingRack.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ClothesDryingRack.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ClothesDryingRack-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I don&#8217;t have enough features in my backyard to string up a clothesline, but one day I want one of those Amish-style ones that rises high over the lawn so the boys can still play&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t received the latest electric bill yet. It&#8217;s been very hot here so I am fearing that the cost savings from not using the dryer might get sucked into additional air conditioning costs. I&#8217;ll let you know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before I left for vacation in June, we got a power bill and it was a doozie! 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