Laundry

Update on Electric Bill and my laundry basket

February 26, 2009

It’s a two-fer! I got my new electric bill today, and to my great delight, it was $197, three dollars BELOW our monthly budgeted amount. This is quite shocking, considering that last month’s bill was a frightening $365. It’s been a little warmer this month, but not that much warmer, and so at first I [...]

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Perfection, and laundry.

December 1, 2008

In the wintertime, I normally try and do a load or two of laundry every day, so that I can keep up with the line-drying. Since it’s cold now(and wet too, often), I can’t really use my outdoor clothesline, so I’m limited to using my two drying racks and hangers. Then too, in the wintertime [...]

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It’s kind of a financially depressing time…

September 30, 2008

It seems like the last few days have been filled with nothing but terrible financial and economic news. And honestly, I don’t understand all of it. I’ve read the articles, but I just don’t have a real grasp of the details of how this happened and why, and I don’t even really think that the [...]

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Two other things about cheap laundry.

September 29, 2008

I did several posts on cheap laundry recently, but I forgot to mention two things. I talked about thinking out of the box when it comes to drying solutions and gave several suggestions. However, I forgot to mention this one…if you run out of room on your line or your drying rack, try draping some [...]

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A napkin alternative

September 11, 2008

Admittedly, this is more of a green thing than a frugal thing since napkins aren’t terribly expensive. But, they’re not free and so using less of them will save money. Plus, you can feel good about saving some trees by cutting down on your napkin usage(personally, I’d much rather give up napkins than toilet paper!). [...]

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Reasons to(mostly)give up your dryer

September 6, 2008

This is sort of backwards, I know! I should have talked about the benefits of line-drying and then done the how-to post. Oh well. This is what happens when you blog with no plan. Of course, the main reason that I line-dry is that it saves money. The amount you save will vary, depending on [...]