Guest guest Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 To be sure you keep receiving Ideal Bite's daily tip, please add dailytip to your address book. HOME TIP LIBRARY CAREERS PARTNERS PRESS KIT ADVERTISE SIGNUP April 20, 2006 Do you often find yourself hunting under the couch cushions for spare change to dry your laundry or cursing your dryer for eating your socks? The Bite: Give your wallet and the clothes dryer a rest with good old-fashioned line drying. BANG FOR THE BITE If 10,000 Biters dried their clothes on lines, each year they'd save a combined $700,000, and have a sweeter smelling wash. COCKTAIL FACTOID The “clothes line†is a professional wrestling move whereby a wrestler runs towards another extending his arm out, knocking over the other as he runs by. 1 2 3 4 5 The Benefits Line drying is free. Savings in energy costs alone total up to $135 a year. Longer lasting clothes and the elimination of static cling. Electric dryers produce static electricity by rubbing clothes over each other repeatedly. In those dry winter months, hanging your clothes indoors acts as a hassle-free humidifier. For those instances where you need the electric dryer, use its moisture sensor, which automatically shuts off the machine when the clothes are dry. Keep your socks from being eaten. Personally Speaking Heather dreams of the way her line-dried sheets smelled as a kid – so as often as possible, she takes her wooden drying rack to her roof garden. Jen has a clothesline she uses in the 4 months it’s warm in Montana. Wanna Try? If you have a clothesline outdoors, just go for it. If you are looking to dry indoors or on a rack, try these on for size: Abundant Earth Drying Rack - made from sustainably harvested White Pine mill scraps (from $30). Gaiam Large Wooden Drying Rack - made from certified wood from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative program ($59). FROST Drying Rack by IKEA - made from steel ($17). All editorial suggestions in this tip are the result of testing and a preference for the tip topic. No advertiser has paid to have its company referenced in the tip. Advertising on the Ideal Bite can be found as separate and distinct units, namely the skyscraper banner along the side and/or a small image with text along the bottom of the email. From time to time, if we know that a certain company is going to be mentioned or featured, we inform them in advance and allow them to purchase paid advertising space if they would like to do so. But we promise we won't recommend anything we didn't try and didn't like and no one can pay to be featured in the tip. HOME CONTACT ADVERTISING INFORMATION SUBMIT-A-TIP PRIVACY POLICY EDITORIAL POLICY DISCLAIMER LINK TO US SUBSCRIBE This e-mail was sent to you by dailytip.For instant removal, please Un. | Privacy Policy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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