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graham[_4_]

On 12/10/2016 1:17 PM, wrote:
> On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 6:27:37 AM UTC-6, wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 19:29:44 -0800 (PST), "
>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>> How many people are living in your home?
>>
>>
>> Just me and the cat - but my friends are widows too and if anything I
>> do far more cooking than them, one of them stores saucepans in her
>> oven, so all things being pretty much equal, it's their dryers running
>> up the bill. When I lived in a house I generally had the washer and
>> dryer in the basement, so just to walk along the hall to the washers
>> and dryers is no big deal. In addition, one of them has to replace
>> her washer, it's biting the dust.
>>
>>
> I had a former boss who when she got home from work what she wore
> to work that day was tossed in the washer to wash and then dried.
> It might have been a tiny load but those tiny loads add up at the
> end of the month. Her excuse was if she wanted to wear that outfit
> again later in the week it would be clean; seemed like a waste of
> water, detergent, and energy to me. Maybe your friends are 'tiny'
> washers and to them it doesn't seem like they're using much water,
> detergent, and enerby.
>
When I arrived in Canada, I was appalled at the amount of laundry some
friends with teenage daughters went through. It seemed ridiculous that
they had to have freshly laundered jeans *every* day.