Of course you can get by. I don't have a tumble dryer. I didn't have a microwave oven until this year. I get by without a dishwasher, using a manual drill, mixing recipes by hand, and without a handheld games console. For centuries people got by without telephones, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators. In the first episode of Doctor Who, the Doctor gets by without a sonic screwdriver. None of these things are essentials, but most of them are sometimes useful. The microwave gets used about once a week now that I have it. If I had an electric drill I'd probably only use it once a year. But it would be useful once a year.
As to the time poor issue, the problem isn't that you would somehow need to stand around watching the clothes dry, but that you need to be there to put them out, and there again to bring them in, both times partly dictated by the capricious weather. Indoor drying has its own problems. A tumble dryer, being an electrical appliance, can be set to finish drying the clothes just as you wake up with dew still on the ground outside. That's what this whole project (of inventing labour saving devices) is about, right? When my great-grandmother grew up the weekly wash was hours of hard labour. Isobel is welcome to the whole process, but I suspect she's got better things to be doing.
Really in your house I'd suggest the main reason not to own a dryer is lack of space.
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:58 pm (UTC)As to the time poor issue, the problem isn't that you would somehow need to stand around watching the clothes dry, but that you need to be there to put them out, and there again to bring them in, both times partly dictated by the capricious weather. Indoor drying has its own problems. A tumble dryer, being an electrical appliance, can be set to finish drying the clothes just as you wake up with dew still on the ground outside. That's what this whole project (of inventing labour saving devices) is about, right? When my great-grandmother grew up the weekly wash was hours of hard labour. Isobel is welcome to the whole process, but I suspect she's got better things to be doing.
Really in your house I'd suggest the main reason not to own a dryer is lack of space.