Simply Living

In my honest opinion, for whatever its worth, I think we have become too accustomed to instant comforts and we have lost the satisfaction on a job well done. A few examples are washing dishes, hanging out clothes, cooking from scratch, real phone calls and writing letters.

I will probably eventually give my two cents worth on all these things but wanted to just focus on hanging out the laundry today.

Hanging out clothes really only saves you about 6% off your electric bill. I spent $40 on my clothes line last year and since I can't use it all year long I probably broke even. But when you  consider I expanded the life of my dryer and every little bit counts it's still worth the little extra work.

Here are a few other reasons why you should use a clothesline.

1. The sun is a natural whitener and air freshener. Have you ever slept on crisp lined dryer sheets? There is nothing more calming.

2. It saves your clothes. Notice all that lint in the dryer? That's your clothes slowly deteriorating. So it can save you money on buying new clothes.

3. Its therapeutic. Outside in the fresh air with the birds chirping and the sun shining really perks you up.

4. It promotes family bonding. Like when a pop up shower hits and you scream " everyone help me get the clothes in".

5. If you miss treating a stain it doesn't get set in if not in the dryer.

6. No accidental shrinking. If nothing goes in the dryer nothing can get shrunk in the dryer.

You can hang your little wild ones on the line but its frowned on to throw them in the dryer ☺