Showing posts with label laundry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laundry. Show all posts

March 30 - International Folding Laundry Day

Posted on March 30, 2019

Don't know why folding laundry warrants a special day, but I happen to not mind this task too much. I definitely wouldn't want to buy an expensive, bulky machine to do it!


I have my own way of folding laundry that is pretty simple and that is designed for the storage I have for clothes and linens. But there are a lot of good ways to fold laundry, and here are a BUNCH of ideas.

If you don't mind a slower video and want more explanation of the hows and whys of folding, check out this video.


Or go with the Tidying Up lady, Marie Kondo, and her many, many videos about folding laundry. Here is a one that is folding-in-general. You will see that her basic idea is used by others in the other videos - but many people find her videos calming and happy-making!



Folding laundry can be a relaxing task, something you can do while talking on the phone, something you can do while listening to an audio book or music or a podcast, even something you can do while watching TV or Netflix!

By the way, some people people just don't bother to fold laundry, but not only do clothes get wrinkled, it's super hard to find particular items, or two matching socks, and bunches of rumpled piles of clean clothes take up a lot more room than folded laundry properly put away. Not to mention the fact that it's harder to keep track of what is clean and what is not when everything looks like this:

So save time AND help your clothes look better by folding and putting away laundry!




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April 19 – National Hanging Out Day

Posted on April 19, 2015


Did you know that the average American uses more energy running a clothes drier in a year than the average African uses in a year for ALL of his or her energy needs? 

Yi-ikes!

In the U.S., 6 to 10% of residential energy use goes toward running clothes driers! So Project Laundry List asks us to take a day to consider using clotheslines and drying racks instead of relying on clothes driers for all our laundry needs.

This sight used to be normal in the U.S. -
and still is in other nations!
People who love hanging laundry point out that they save more than $100 a year in energy bills. They claim that hanging laundry is a weekly chance to enjoy the sun, fresh air, and birds chirping. They claim that their clothing feels and smells better – and it's certainly true that clothing hung out to dry lasts longer than clothing that is heated and tumbled every time it is worn. (The truth is in your lint trap – that lint is the evidence that your clothes are slowly disintegrating!)





Today, some people will be fighting against city laws against clotheslines, and some people will wear T-shirts or pass out fliers to convince the rest of us to “Hang your pants, Stop the nuke plants.”


Artist Kaarina Kaikkonen does
clothesline-inspired art installations!
Aren't they cool?
I ESPECIALLY love the one below!
 



















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