Philly0381

Join Date 11/2004

+844

An energy & money saving process

It isn't new but it is effective in saving not only our precise natural resourses but will also cut down on your utility bills.

What is it you ask, well if you are over 50 you will know what I'm talking about, if not you may have to skip asking your parents and go to your grandparents. There is a little cost involved but the savings will make up for it quickly. It is so good that most cities and town everywhere in the U.S. will not let you do it for fear of you making the current economic prolems even more worse then they are. Are you interesting in knowing how to start saving on your energy bills?

Well all you have to do is just PM or email me with $5.00 and I will be happly to let you in on the secret.

Sounds like a commercial doesn't it.

What's the one thing that most towns everywhere these days won't let you do on laundry day? Come on now more then likely your grandmother and mother did it. Hang the cleanly washed clothes on the clothes line that your grandfather or father put up in your back yard so you could dry those wet clean clothes in the noon day sun.

Yea I know,, really silly, why would anyone want to do that. Hmm, has saving money really been lost because of technology?

Sometimes the current day problems we face can be easily solved by just thinking a little. If every household in the U.S, would do this one thing I wonder what the savings would be? I bet you there are still folks around the world that still hang out thier clothes to dry.

Folks, the only way things are going to turn around is that We do them. Think about it, you could probably do this with out any bail funds too.

Got any energy or money savings ideas, well lets hear them.

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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We did that in Israel with the diapers and the kids never had a rash! Maybe the UV (or Desitin) but it worked, and the clothes smelled great too!

Ideas: 1. Disconnect the transformer/chargers when your phone, etc. is charged!

2. Replace the incandescent bulbs with the long life/neons.

3. Weather and health permitting, bicycles and walking...save gas, and gain fitness and health (double saving).

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Sadly,nowadys you would get your laundry stolen.

Tips:Turn your water heater down to around 130 degrees or less.You will still have plenty of hot water,and higher temps run the risk of scalding childer faster.

Turn the pilot light/gas off on your furnace in the summertime,No need to waste the fuel.

Open your windows on nice days and/or use a fan.Save the A/C for really hot days. Ditto for the car A/C .

Keep yor tires inflated to the correct pressure. Air is cheaper than gas or rubber.

Do full loads of laundry.Many small or partial loads waste water,energy and detergent.

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angus1949

Join Date 12/2007

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The really stupid thing is Philly, here where I live in Florida, most of the housing is in deed restricted communities. Their rules outlaw the use of any outside clothes drying appliance. Thank God we are not restricted and do have lines in the back yard which are used for certain items.

You certainly have the right idea, unfortunately, things will continue as they always have. Those who must conserve due to conscience or financial need will do so. Those of privelige will not.

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WOM

Join Date 01/2002

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As I'am over 50, I have a cloths line in the back yard and we use it in the summer. Also in my county we can have the washer line running to the outside so I use the dirty water to help water the grass. Also, there is no need to have the water heater set over 130.I also use those energy efficient lighting(26W=100W). But, it doesn't matter because the less you use, the higher they jack the rate so they don't lose money and you end up paying the same. So all your doing is helping to save the enviroment, not your wallet.

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Philly0381

Join Date 11/2004

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WOM is correct just try living in a community the says you have to conserve water and when you do they raise the rates because thier revenue went down. Imagine that.

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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I use the laundry line in the winter too...when the stuff freezes, it's almost like ironing it...

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k10w3

Join Date 11/2007

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When my DH was going to school in Tulsa 3 years ago and it was just he and I in a little rental house, we didn't even own a dryer, so the clothes were always hung on the line (I'm 50, but he's only 41 -- but he's been poor all his life, so the clothes line was ever present in his life). It was a bummer when we didn't have any clean clothes and it was thunderstorming, though.

Living here in Florida now, we don't use the clothes line that much because A. too humid for anything to dry a lot of times, and B. my daughter has environmental allergies, so if our clothes are dried outside we can't get near her or she starts violently sneezing. We hang our own personal linens out on the line (when I say "we," I mean my husband -- I don't have time for housework and he's better at it than I am anyway).

To make up for what we're doing to our finances and the natural resource supply, we DO have a solar hot water heater (saves me about $100 a month in energy costs), and we only run the dishwasher between the hours of 2-4 p.m., when the sun is the hottest here in central Florida and all the water we use is replaced for free during those hours due to the mighty power of the sun.

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Here's another one: turn your TV and other appliances with standby lights off at the wall socket when not in use... over a year the savings soon mount up.

We have a clothes dryer but never really use it... only if there's persistent rain and something is needed urgently, but that is very, very rare. Everything goes out on the line in the backyard, otherwise, and we have an clothes horse inside for smaller items when the weather is not conducive to drying for any extended periods, which isn't ofter here in Ipswich (Oz) anyhow.

But, it doesn't matter because the less you use, the higher they jack the rate so they don't lose money and you end up paying the same.

Dunno that this applies here in Queensland Australia. Despite electricity usage consistently increasing over the past few years, the government (the chief provider) and power companies jack up the price of power every June between 10 to 15%. Under the rules of supply and demand, the price should actually be going down, but the opposite it true... and despite the government's claim that allowing private companies to sell electricity would create competition, and thus lower prices, they still continue to rise at an alarming rate each year.

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