To think my friend should not use her tumble dryer on lovely warm dry days.

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My friend is lovely, she's supportive, considerate and fun to be around, but one thing that I cannot agree with is the fact that she uses her tumble dryer 365 days a year.

It's on most of the day. She says she uses it to cut down on ironing. I have tried to pursuade her to hang it outside on many occasions but she just laughs it off. I think the more I mention it the more she digs her heels in.

I know it's none of my business but it bugs me, that she can be so ignorant about it.

Would it annoy anyone else, or is the problem mine?

I'm rather jealous of all those who talk of fresh smelling, line dried laundry.
If I dry mine on an (indoor) airer it smells gorgeous. But when I dry outside (which I do whenever I can mainly for convenience sake) my washing smells all musty and wierd.

I need to move.

I use mine all the time - it's just less faff and it means I don't have to iron 99% of what comes out of it. I couldn't really give a stuff what you or anyone else thinks of it.

I wonder how many people who don't use a tumbler have a dishwasher? I don't have one of those - now that is a blardy waste of time and energy (imo of course).

disenchanted - good to know that you "dont care" about your carbon footprint

Dont care about the world we live in then?

So basically, for a change, I'm with the Twiglett

We recycle and all that other faff. Blardy energy saving lightbulbs too which I can't fecking stand - you have to switch the blardy things on and then go away for 5 mins before you actually get enough light out of them to be able to see where you are going. Dh put them in - I hate them.

Oh and if I was your friend I'd want to know about this thread so I could cross you off my Christmas card lis.

Your problem

Buttoutski

To OP: it would annoy me too, but I would forget about it if she's a good friend/person in most other ways.
You probably do things that annoy her, too, you realise? (like nag about the dryer).
The sign of good friends is when you can agree to disagree.

I don't use mine much, but this evangelical rudeness ismaking me want to lie and say I have it on every day.

None of your business. let it drop and leave her alone.

I don't have a clothes line outside and don't intend to get one. We have an arer for indoor use and a tumble dryer for towels, bedding and pants.

TBH I would be really annoyed if a friend of mine kept going on about it. Once, fair enough...but to bring it up again, not on.

I dried all our washing on a hanger in our 2-bed flat in London for two years, perfectly adequately. Now, we have more space, it's all up in the attic drying. Looks like a Chinese Laundry...

Why the need for a dryer at all? So what if it's a little crispy on occasions. Probably means you've put way too much soap in. Just iron it, and whatever the item it'll get soft again.

Actually, the OP does have a point in that when we over-use our tumble dryers, don't recycle, and waste energy generally, it does impact on everyone else on the planet and isn't fair on the next generations who will have to find ways to deal with the mess we leave behind.

However, I reckon there are very few people who have a perfect track record when it comes to the environment; I recycle, compost, use cloth nappies but I know I use my dryer a little too much even for my own liking ( I love the smell of line-dried clothes) but it's a compromise I find I have to make to fit in with our lifestyle and I certainly wouldn't like anyone to start lecturing me on it!

(Sticking head above parapet) YANBU! It annoys me too, when I am aware of others apparently being repeatedly wasteful and impacting on the environment. Chipmonkey and others have put it well about how it impacts on us all and we can't pretend our actions won't affect the next generation. There is something about how the friend in OP uses dryer 365 days a year; perhaps if she were to occaisionally take the effort to dry another way, it might be less annoying!!!

Having said that, loads of good points made in friends defence; maybe there is a good reason why she can't/ won't use her tumbledryer less

And life is so short; chill and be glad you've got such a great friend. Hope she never finds this thread

do people really only use their tumble dryers for bedding and underwear?
Surely you sneak the odd pair of trousers or shirt in there?

"Her DH pays the electricty bill so it's not an issue for her"

lordy

are they two separate financial entities then?

I freecycled my tumble dryer and don't regret it. The only time I would regret it would be on wet summer days when the heating is not on. I have one airer in the little bedroom we use as an office (currently down and tucked away in the corner) and one small one that pulls out from the wall in the utility room. Bedding I dry over the banisters (fantastic - is dry and straightish in a couple of hours and then right next to the airing cupboard to go away).

But I much prefer to line dry and dried our bedding, a couple of tablecloths, and a load of clothes yesterday.

Nobody has answered my question re dishwashers - how many of you so adamant about line drying use a dishwasher?

Not read whole thread, but YANBU. Really difficult to bring this one up in conversation though, without seeming judgy.

Gobbledigook - I don't have a dishwasher or a tumbledryer.
I am therefore feeling very self-righteous

reeeeeeally want a dishwasher though!!!

Oh, I recently saw in a shop that you could buy an oven, that also had a small dishwasher as a 'top shelf'. Now that has got to be a serious waste of enery... somehow. It just seems wrong!

Oh I'll let you off then

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I don't understand how people do so little washing. Are my children particularly mucky?