Laundry drying on the line. How beautiful it is! The vibrant colors! How it blows gently in the wind! How eco-friendly to be using the sun instead of a tumble dryer which eats up energy and creates waste! And the divine smell of the sun permeating from your clothes! It is all so romantic isn't it?
A few weeks after our arrival in New Zealand, I mentioned that I was still ambivalent about the lack of a tumble dryer but that I was endeavoring to be positive and give it a go.
Yeah, well, the ambivalence is gone now. I really, really miss my tumble dryer and think that line-drying laundry kinda...well,er, um........ TOTALLY SUCKS.
Consider the weather we are having right now.
Drying laundry for a family of 4 (with two of those people being small children who have multiple changes of clothes) inside on a drying rack is a challenge. And consider the fact that houses in NZ tend to be on the colder side with no central heating which means it can take a couple of days to dry and we get heaps of condensation on our single paned windows. And the laundry smells a bit musty and it tends to be wrinkly and has a "crunchy" texture to it which I am not fond of.
We do have a dryer in our rental but a) it is quite ancient and not terribly good at its job and b) electricity is astronomically expensive here so I am loathe to use it much. However, the last few miserable, rainy, stormy, cold days have driven me to use the dryer a bit despite its limitations and despite our looming electric bill. The towels felt so soft and fluffy which only made me long for my old energy wasting, unaesthetic and purely American laundry facilities even more.
So much for being eco-friendly and PC. I want my tumble dryer!!!!!
