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Meanwhile, living in Japan, if you tell people you prefer to machine dry your clothes, they’ll tell you outright that it’s wasteful. The assumption is that it’s
by fiblye 6y ago
Meanwhile, living in Japan, if you tell people you prefer to machine dry your clothes, they’ll tell you outright that it’s wasteful. The assumption is that it’s only used when rain makes it impossible.
- Al-Khwarizmi 6y agoIn Spain the attitude is similar, but for different reasons. Environmental consciousness is sadly low in general, but cult to fashion and looks is strong. Machine drying anything but towels and sheets would be considered shabby by most, as it damages clothes. When I was looking for housing, I visited some really luxury apartments (that I could never afford, but visiting is free and I'm a curious person, so why not) and having a good place to line dry clothes was always seen as a boasting point, never associated to poverty in the slightest.
- exceptione 6y agoI guess that you still centrifuge clothes, but do not tumble-dry them?
- slim 6y agoyes
- hombre_fatal 6y ago> Machine drying anything but towels and sheets would be considered shabby by most, as it damages clothes. So does UV light.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoBut less.
- throw0101a 6y agoDepending on the clothing item, turning it inside-out may help (e.g., reduce colour fade).
- pmiller2 6y agoNot only that, but it helps protect screen printed elements on graphic tees and such.
- fiblye 6y agoYour clothes get faded in the sun. A dryer quickly wears down the fabric and makes holes.
- jxramos 6y agoI remember reading somewhere where an author realized all that lint they collected from their dryer was a result of their clothes literally falling apart fiber by fiber. In other words all the mass of the lint didn't just spontaneously form breaking some conservation of mass law but came from the clothes shedding and abrading against each other.
- mstade 6y agoOn the Swedish west coast where it's often windy and sunny we typically line dry our laundry. We do have a machine dryer, but it's typically only really used when there's too much humidity in the air (which doesn't happen often) or it's raining. Line drying typically yields better and more even results in my experience, especially when it's breezy.
- dahdum 6y agoMost of the dryers I've seen there didn't have external vents, and were often combined with the washer. They were really lousy at drying. Do you think that's part of it?