If I were to buy a clothes dryer at Sears today, I'd spend about $379.00. Since the warrenty is 5 years, I expect to get about 6 years of use out of it. Averaging 6 loads a week at average electricity rates, I think I will spend about 884.44 to dry my clothes for 6 years or 147.00 a year.
At the end of the life of the dryer, I will have to pay (currently 10 bucks) to have it hauled off, or I can take it to the scrap yard and earn, at today's prices, 3.50.
Or I can order a foldflat indoor drying rack that will easily fit in my enclosed back porch, or even in the laundry roo where dryer would sit, and install a pully and wire between house and garage to hang stuff outdoors. All this for under 200 dollars.
Of course, its illegal for me to do so. It is said to make property values fall 15%. That means if I hang clothes in my back yard, the local government looses $1,251.00, the real estate agent looses about a one time $600 bucks, the energy company breaks even, I come out around 500 bucks ahead, and some lucky homebuyer gets a home about 20 grand cheaper.
How revolutionary and altruistic!
1 comment:
Love it--the Clothes Line Revolution! Nonviolent direct action for the 21st century.
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