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Modern Machines
Miracle or Menace?
By Julia Rosien
After drying the aftermath of a weeklong camping trip -- sleeping bags, jeans and sweatshirts -- my dryer threw up an awful stench, blackened the wall around the electrical outlet and groaned to a halt. We hauled its carcass to the curb to await the garbage man. Family and friends told me to get a new one while they prodded my husband towards the appliance store, telling him I wouldn't be able to cope.
We decided only an energy efficient model would do as a replacement. Since we couldn't afford that, we agreed to try a year without a dryer. Thus began 12 months of laundry flapping in the summer breezes and dripping in the basement during rainy and winter weather.
We quickly discovered a hidden benefit of wet laundry in the house. Before our dryer's death, we ran vaporizers, trying to add moisture to the winter air to ease skin and breathing problems. Our doctor told us that the average Canadian house is dryer than the Sahara desert. Using the furnace fan, the moisture dispersed through the house and eliminated our need for a vaporizer.
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