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Saving Money On Laundry

Everybody knows it’s cheaper doing laundry at home than at a laundromat, at least in the long run. There are things you can do to make the cost of home laundering even cheaper.

Use half as much detergent.

The instructions on the laundry box encourage you to use far more than you actually need to get the clothes clean, in order to encourage consumers to use up the product faster and replace it. Using less detergent is also less polluting to water systems (that soapy laundry water has to be dumped someplace).

Laundry line

Wash in cold water.

Your clothes will be just as clean. This also saves energy.

Hang your clothes out on a laundry line.

They’ll smell better. You will save at least 50¢ in electricity on each wash you do. That’s how much it costs on average to operate a drier to dry one load of clothes.

Wear shirts more than once.

Only in America do people wear things once and toss them in the laundry. Your ancestors wore clothes a few times before laundering (with a washboard), and it didn’t kill them. As long as they look and smell OK, it’s perfectly all right to wear again. Ditto the towels in the bathroom. Hang them up and they’ll dry for another day’s use.