No more clothes dryers for me!

I have a dryer but don't like to use it until/unless it's absolutely necessary. I have some sweaters that will stretch if hung to dry, so I lay them out, but don't have enough room to do them all. I sometimes put them in the dryer to finish. Dryers not only use electricity, they're expensive to buy or replace and they wear out your clothes, too. Like you, I don't use fabric softener and much prefer towels, jeans, dish towels and the like to be line dried. I don't mind ironing when needed, but there isn't much that really needs it if you hang the clothes carefully. I have a clothesline just outside my back door and use it year around.

Congrats for saving a lot from your electric bill. Here in our country we seldom use the drier. We dry our clothes by hanging it on hangers and put them outside. Rain or shine we do this. If its raining we have a place inside the house where we can hang our clothes. We too tried our best to cut on electric bills... if we can do the washing manually we will and we really do.

I also dry mine on Hangers and a Clothes Rack as it is saves my Electric I don't even have a Dryer anymore as I believe that they are a waste on the Electric and as for Ironing well no I do not need to use the Iron any more either

I always use my dryer. I haven't really thought about how much extra it adds on to my electricity bill each month. Are your clothes not still after they dry from being hung up? I might have to try that and see how much it saves me in a month.

I am in ways like you I dont use the dryer to dry clothes we hang them on a clothes line here in the house all I was out was the clothes pins but I can hang atleast 2-3 loads of laundry at a time and they dry fast so then I dont have to worry about doing without clothes.

I do use my dryer year round. Use to hang my clothes out but can't do that anymore. I do iron the clothes i wear when i leave the house but that is very little so i have very little ironing. gives me something to do, lol. I do try to be frugal in alot of ways.

i use our dryer only for a short time. i generally let the dryer work for a few minutes ( like 10) and then take them out and hang them up (whether it be on hangers or what) this way they dont get that stiff as a board feel! lol. i find if you do that, then you dont have to iron either.

I personally use my dryer, but then again I really don't have anywhere to hang our clothes after washing them. Since it's only the two of us, we don't really do a lot of laundry...maybe only 2 days a week...so it's not like we are constantly running the dryer.

That is very good. I use the dryer for about 10 minutes per load then I hang eveything on hangers I use the stairway to hang them, I have a stairway that has posts on it and I hand the hangers on the post. I like to dry the in the dryer for a just a few minutes with a fabric softening sheet to keep the static cling away and pull the wrinkles out a bit, the rest come out with the hanging. I rip teh fabric softener sheet in half and use each half twice.

I still use a dryer because it helps dewrinkle the clothes and then I don't have to iron. I also don't like towels dried by the air because no matter how much softner you put in the wash it will not keep your towels drying soft. They will still be hard. I do have a new energy saving washer and dryer so that helps alot with the bills.

There are only me and my husband so I only do laundry once a week. I do wash in warm water not hot to save. I dry on permanment press so I do not have to iron my clothes.

Hi,friend,we are far behind in using electrical facilities[VCD,LCD TV,MICROWOVEN,WASHING MACHINES,HEATERS,DRYERS...] invented for the benefit of people.We have 90% of people still wash clothes with hands in house [town and city] and near ponds,canals in villages.Of course as i am living in town,we have those,but sorry those things all look after my wife.In general also washing will be done by here one caste[people who are in the profession of washing and iron the clothes since ages]and they only do that.From the past 10 years there is a bit change in this attitude and people start their washing activity within the family,but iron must be do by washer man only. Have a nice time.

In winter it's really hard for stuff to dry so we use the dryer for things that can be put in there. Otherwise, we let them drip-dry to save electricity, too. We only really use the dryer for beddings because we don't have enough space to let them drip dry, living in an apartment. For clothes, it's alright.