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  1. 08-23-2008, 10:02 PM #1
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    Default Proud of myself (^_^)

    The other day I was thinking about how I love that the house we moved into has a shelf in the laundry room with a bar under it where I can hang clothes. My husband keeps all of his clothes in there and it's nice to just take clothes out of the dryer and then hang them up.

    Well today I did things a bit differently.
    I took things out of the *washer* and put them on hangers on the bar. Then I used my drying rack outside of the basement door to dry the load of towels that I did.

    I bought my drying rack well over a year ago and always said that I was going to start hang drying clothes, but never really did. I'm so proud of myself for today! Now all I have to do is keep this up lol. We could set up a line outside, but right now I like the system I just started

    Just wanted to share
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  2. 08-23-2008, 10:21 PM #2
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    Good idea!!!
    ~July 19 saving goal for event $104/$1000
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  3. 08-23-2008, 11:09 PM #3
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    That's great and I'm sure you'll notice a money savings not using the dryer as much .
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  4. 08-24-2008, 02:01 AM #4
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    Good job, Christina ... I'm proud of you too!
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  5. 08-24-2008, 03:08 AM #5
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    That's great!
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  6. 08-24-2008, 09:02 AM #6
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    Good job!

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  7. 08-24-2008, 09:39 AM #7
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    way to go.
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  8. 08-24-2008, 11:13 AM #8
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    Great Job! I hung my clothes out one Saturday a couple of weeks ago. It was nice, but I only have 2 drying racks and 9 people to wash clothes for. It just didn't work so well for me then. Once I get all my laundry caught up this weekend I'm going to try again. I usually wash a few loads a day since I'm home all day again. I'll try hanging them up outside on my drying rack. Hopefully that will work and I can give my dryer a break.If the winds don't come sweeping down the plains and blow them over I think it will.
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  9. 08-24-2008, 04:51 PM #9
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    Great job. My dh hung up 2 metal bars in my basement for me to hang clothes up to dry when it was to bad outside. I used skirt hangers to hang towels as well as jeans and skirts. I used wire hangers with clothes pins attached to hang underwear, socks, washclothes and other small items to. They took them down when we had ch&a put in so I've got to have him put them back up elsewhere in the basement. It works like a charm and really saves money. I've been down for 5 months and haven't been able to even hang my clothes out (I had a bad fall) so I've been having to use my dryer all the time.
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  10. 08-24-2008, 04:56 PM #10
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    You SHOULD be proud of yourself! Too often, we dismiss the little things we can do to save $$$. All those little things add up to a lot of savings. Keep up the good work!


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  11. 08-24-2008, 04:58 PM #11
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    Nicely done!
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  12. 08-24-2008, 08:12 PM #12
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    I agree with the others -- you SHOULD be proud of yourself. I started doing the same thing a year ago and now rarely use my dryer. Not only do I believe my clothes are in better condition, but I ended up saving a TON of money from my elec bill each month.

    Once I got into the routine of hanging my clothes, linens, towels after washing, it just seemed like that was what I should be doing.

    I'm thrilled for you -- glad you didn't put it off any longer.
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    Thanks everyone! You guys can't even believe how much this is going to save me...I had a horrible habit of forgetting clothes in the dryer over night. Which meant having to put them on a heat cycle for a few minutes the next day to get the wrinkles out before I could get them out. Essentially if I was doing 5 loads of laundry per week I was probably using enough energy to do 7 loads ...I know, bad christina! But with hanging them up they're already on the hanger so no risk to forget to take them out of the dryer lol
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