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For the past four years, my husband and I  lived  in Mexico, in a little cabin that we bought. We had a 25-year-old washing machine which worked great and didn’t mind the vagaries of our electric current there. We dried our clothes on clotheslines. At the start of our second rainy season I muttered something about getting a clothes dryer and Kelly responded by putting a roof over a walkway behind the house and adding more clotheslines. Worked fine.

Now we are in the process of moving back to Colorado, to a house which comes with a relatively new washer and gas dryer. Kelly plans to continue drying his clothes on a line he will string in the solar greenhouse that is attached to the house. I think I will do my laundry both ways, sometimes clothesline sometimes dryer. Here’s why: Read the rest of this entry »

Can you save enough money or power to bother with by replacing your older appliances with newer energy-efficient versions? After all, no large appliances are all that cheap, so there will be your out-of-pocket cost right away. If you are starting from scratch and building a new home or doing a major remodel, then it makes sense to choose the most energy-efficient appliances you can. But what about for the rest of us? Read the rest of this entry »