If your pay is really good, then invest in a press iron like they have in dry cleaners and you can iron anything in like 5 seconds.
Again it's for easy and quick convienence.Again, why waste money to do something you can do for absolutely free, courtesy of the bright red ball in the sky?Plus if you actually waste money on a machine, you are wasting space in the house too. Also, the dryer causes the clothes to need a good ironing afterwards, while the line outside doesn't. The sun basically saves you both the money you would use for the electricity and makes two machines obsolete, the dryer and the iron.
So you are basically saying "why do things the normal and cheap way when there's a really wasteful and completely redundant way instead?". If you can walk, then you should, 2 miles is so short a distance I actually laughed when I read that! My school I went to for 6 years was 6 miles away and I went on foot and even then hardly took half a hour, exercise people!
You dont even have to buy a dryer and washer here. You could get a working one for free on Craigslist. Also a dryer drys the clothes quicker. I sometimes need to wash clothes at night because I dont have time during day. Id choose putting them in a dryer for 40 minutes instead of leaving them outside overnight hoping they are dry in the morning.So you are basically saying "why do things the normal and cheap way when there's a really wasteful and completely redundant way instead?". If you can walk, then you should, 2 miles is so short a distance I actually laughed when I read that! My school I went to for 6 years was 6 miles away and I went on foot and even then hardly took half a hour, exercise people!
As for the high winds, just know that it's the wind that actually dries the clothes, the sun simply helps a bit with that, even without sun at all, if there's wind, things dry really fast as long as there's no rain or high moisture. And those machines are exactly as useless as I "think" since no one here has ever needed them, I've been doing laundry since I was 8 and never needed to iron even once! Just try things out the normal way first before picking the expensive wasteful route, you will save tons in the long run.
Free or not, it's still a waste. All washing machines in the smart countries (the ones where they don't use driers) already have a working drying system built in and dries everything almost completely (to that point where it's not wet, but you can feel the cloth being a bit cold as if it was wet), so again, driers are useless. In the US they intentionally either strip that part of a washing machine away or dumb it down a great deal so you will have to waste more money on a second machine just to dry your clothes.
No I'm saying that there is a way to get things done faster and easier, especially when you would need it in a short time (hence the convienence)
Are you talking about washer/drier combos (that cost more than buying two separate machines and do a terrible job of drying compared to a dedicated drier) or are you talking about the spin cycle (that all washing machines have and isn't "stripped away" or "dumbed down" anywhere)?
I never said that if you don't have space you should still try to hang them outside, what my point is is that if you don't really have to do it, it's not worth it, save your money instead. It's just that I personally know well over 50 people from areas where it's all sunny most of the time like CA and they use driers even when it's like 100F outside, and it's ridiculous to hear them when they complain that too much waste causes the heatwaves and the droughts!
I'm talking about regular washing machines that have a drier setting, so after you finish washing, it spends about half to one hour (can take longer depending on how it's set up) drying them. In the US especially, they INTENTIONALLY make the drying setting either non-existent or they dumb it down (so it doesn't really dry stuff more than just a tiny bit) so people will buy driers. In Europe that hardly happens and mostly to the northern countries who already NEED a drier anyway since there's hardly an sun and the air has really high moisture (BAD for drying clothes). I'm an electronics engineer and I once was asked to program a LOGO chip for a Siemens model and was told by the company itself that we should dumb it down to work worse in the drying part (less spins and some other tweaks).
That doesn't make it completely flat, there will still be some creases in it from the washing that don't go away. But it's better than nothing and good enough for me.This is 2017 people, why would anyone iron clothes in this day and age? Use your brains, hang them on the line to dry nicely so it's as if it was ironed by the moment it's all dry and ready to bring back in or simply get clothes, sheets, etc. that don't need ironing!
