Article 1D8YG It's spring: stop using your dryer already

It's spring: stop using your dryer already

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Madeleine Somerville
from Environment | The Guardian on (#1D8YG)
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The sweet ritual of hanging your clothes to dry in the warmth of the sun is not only environmentally effective, it'll spare your clothes undue damage

Everyone hates me in the springtime.

As soon as the weather warms up, the clothesline in my backyard gets hauled into action and I become physically unable to stop talking about it. My Instagram feed becomes littered with bucolic pictures of my dainties fluttering in the sunny breeze and I become prone to embarking upon long-winded screeds to anyone within earshot about how amazing my sheets smell when they're dried in the fresh air.
In the wintertime, my clothes stagnate in the hamper until it risks overflowing or until my daughter runs out of socks. In spring and summer, however, I'm a compulsive laundry-doer. A sunny day means a laundry day, and laundry days fill me with an embarrassing amount of glee.

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