Commentary
Nothing will shake your faith in technology like your first experience of using a clothesline. The clothes are dried with sun and breezes and come out fresh, sanitized, and wonderful. This is especially true for whites. The sun acts as a natural bleach and actually brings back brightness that all whites have lost over the decades. The comparison with an electric dryer is shocking. To my amazement, clothes hung on a clothesline actually dry faster!
What precisely is the point of using the electric dryer exclusively? We’ll get to that.
To be sure, it’s spring, the breeze is perfect, the sun is shining. These are ideal conditions. Maybe that is the norm in Southern California or Florida but most places in the country have seasonality issues that make exclusive reliance on clotheslines difficult. So perhaps dryers are better seen as second best and that’s fine….