When something new arrives they often say its an idea whose time has come.
The first electronic four function calculator cost more than £1000. On the other hand the first clothes airer was a very simple folding wooden item. Maybe even something made up in the garden workshop.
Clothes airers were a must in the early 1900’s. Coal fires were dangerous and wood burning fires very much the standard. The wooden clothes horse stood in front of the fire. A fire hazard if ever there was one.
From the wooden clothes horse came the wooden clothes pulley airer. Mainly in the kitchen it started a revolution on clothes drying. On laundry days the kitchen would turn into a ‘steamie’. A room filled with hot damp air. What fun little children had dodging wet sheets. Of course there is no substitute for drying outside on a washing line.
Many thousands of households have turned to the tumble dryer as the answer to their drying needs. Its just the same as switching an electric fire on full blast! Try looking at the electricity meter or fit a plug in monitor which tells you just how much electricity your appliance is using.
Today with energy costs soaring as much as 40% the cost of using a tumble dryer is very expensive indeed. Its time to say hang the expense. By that I don’t mean we shouldn’t care. What I do mean is fit an airer and hang your laundry on it. You will dry your clothes for free.
Sometimes the frugal money saving ideas of yesteryear come round again. The clothes airer is one of those. You can fit a complete system – wall mounted – free standing – in the bath and wall to wall indoor washing line. With a complete natural clothes airer drying system you can while away the hours in between with your favourite pastime or sip on you skinny latte as you think ‘hang the expense its costing me zero’.
Jean Forsyth
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