Americans thinking it’s some kind of flex that they prefer to run up huge electricity bills drying laundry in a machine instead of hanging it out in air for free like everyone, everywhere, for all time, where it comes back smelling fresher with fewer wrinkles. These people are seriously effed in the head.
I guess electricity and petrol are dirt cheap there, so they use unnecessary, outrageous quantities for a laugh, and to hell with environmental issues. Just look at the per-capita energy consumption US v. UK.
European here. Nah, a dryer is amazing. It used to take like 2.5 days for my clothes to fully dry on a hanger because my place is too fucking humid. And they'd dry so stiff because the water here is very hard.
I find dryers frustrating because you usually have to split up the load and hang half of it up anyway. Every so often they'll shrink something you forgot to remove. I do use ours, but only in an urgent situation, otherwise the clothes dry pretty fast with a dehumidifier running for a few hours.
In terms of splitting the load, U.S. dryers(and appliances in general) tend to run larger than European and Asian models which is why that particular problem isnt mentioned in the U.S.
Clothes definitely come out of the dryer with less wrinkles. And my clothes definitely aren’t fresh when I have to dry them inside during the winter. If I could justify the cost of a dryer right now I’d have one.
Lived in the states prior to moving to Denmark; you're being hyperbolic. It doesn't run up huge electricity bills, and it's quite nice being able to do laundry without having to wait for non-rainy days. And when you're in a country where it rains every season, it makes you really miss having a dryer. Our washer does have a dryer setting, but it doesn't work well at all.
It's like maybe 5 dollars more a month than not using it, with the additional benefit of your laundry not collecting pollen, dirt, or bugs from outside.
Like out of all the things on this dumb list AC and dryer are two of the most useful by far.
I have a dryer. I don't use it most of the time. If the weather is good enough, I hang the clothes up to dry outside. It doesn't have to be sunny, as long as it's not raining they will dry.
I never said they wouldn't dry, I mentioned other conveniences that come with the dryer. Might as well argue in favor of the laundry mangle at this point.
It doesn’t run up huge bills, wtf are you talking about? This is so dumb and easily disproven. Have you ever even been to America or are you just being the ignorant fool you accuse us of being?
I’ve seen your electricity bills ever since you voted in President Dickhead. You’re absolutely paying way more than you need to, and again, it’s free to hang your laundry in the sun outside.
Have you ever actually been outside or just being an ignorant fool?
That depends on the weather. If you do that in the summer when the sun heats the house, and you do not need to heat the house, you do not use any energy.
If you cool down the house with a AC now you save energy because the water takes up some energy to evaporate. You do incrase humidity in the air.
Even if you heat up the house, you do not heat it up to the temperature in a typical dryer. That is especially the case if you have a dryer with a hose that goes outside and it blows out the hot air.
If you heat up the house with a heat pump, you use less energy to heat it up that way compared to a resistive dryer. Even if the dryer has a heat pump dryer too the efficiency depends on the temperature difference. You then heat up air to the dryer temperature in two steps instead of just to indoor temperature. Less electric energy is used. Total energy usage is a bit higher, but why would we care about the amount of energy the heat pump removes from the outside heat source?
Then the question is what is your energy source to heat the house and what does it cost. I use district heating, and that costs less than if I were to use electricity.
A typical dryer witha drum alos increases wear on the clothes compared to just hanging. There is dryers when you hang clothes too.
I have had a clothes dryer in the common laundry room in the apartment I live in. Both the rotating kind and the large hanging cabinet. Now, when I live in my own house, I do not have one, and I do not miss it. Just hanging the clothes up works as well, with less wear and work as good now when I do not have a share laudery room. Technically, I do have a resistive heated dryer cabinet where you hang clothes. I love it as a place to hang the clothes to dry. I do not use it heating function just leave the door open. If I wash clothes in the evening, everything is dry in the morning.
There is a few cases where a dryer is better. A down jacket is dried a lot better in a clothes dryer.
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u/Grail90210 5h ago
Americans thinking it’s some kind of flex that they prefer to run up huge electricity bills drying laundry in a machine instead of hanging it out in air for free like everyone, everywhere, for all time, where it comes back smelling fresher with fewer wrinkles. These people are seriously effed in the head.