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Appliances and home electronics account for 20 percent of your energy bill, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, with refrigerators, clothes washers, and clothes dryers hogging the biggest chunks of that pie.
Based on national averages, a typical clothes dryer costs nearly $83 per year to run, so it might seem a bit of a no-brainer when we say that giving your dryer a break and line-drying your clothes can chalk up significant savings for your family, not to mention give you fresh-smelling laundry at zero cost. If all Americans line-dried for just half a year, say experts, it would save 3.3 percent of the country's total residential output of carbon dioxide.
Besides requiring more than a modicum of patience, however, drying your clothes outdoors has one other drawback: Your clothes can start to feel like sandpaper. We've discovered some ways of getting the crunch out of your clothes.1. Use less detergent
2. Add half a cup of vinegar during the wash cycle
3. Hang your clothing on a windy day and take advantage of prevailing winds if you can
4. Hang your clothing in a partially shaded spot
5. Snap out the wrinkles before you set the pins on your clothes
6. Hang the heavier parts, such as waistbands, facing downward
6. Toss your clothes into the dryer for a few minutes after they've been dried on the line
See also: ::Ditch the Dryer Sheets
Difficulty level: Easy
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