High and dry

Kya deLongchamps offers some useful money-saving suggestions for drying clothes that don’t involve that watt devouring monster — the clothes dryer.

We can whinge, whine, worry and complain as much as we like, but electricity prices are going up 5%-5.9% this month. Recession is the mother of domestic regression, so it’s time to get that maid back out in the garden pegging out the clothes.

Even with a laudable ‘B’ energy rating, that watt devouring monster the clothes dryer, is an indulgent luxury on a dry, breezy day. Even if you try to get those smalls out there on the weekends, the effort is economically and spiritually worthwhile.