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Tips for Drying Clothes to Save Energy

Use a Tennis Ball to Fluff Your Clothes

Make drying your laundry easy and energy efficient.  Here are a few tips to help:

Salt—Double Duty

Multi-Use Salt

You will find salt in every home.  But it is not just for seasoning your food.  Here is a small sampling of what you can use salt for:

White Vinegar—Double Duty

Multi-Use Vinegar

You will find white vinegar in most homes.  But it is not just for cooking.  Here is a small sampling of what you can use white vinegar for:

Tips for the Laundry Room

Organize the Smallest Laundry Room

Having a well organized laundry room, no matter how small or large, will save you valuable time. Use a system that will allow you to sort your clothes into lights, darks and delicates such as a clothes hamper with three sections and a rack on top to hang clothes.  Keep a bin on top of your dryer or nearby to contain your soaps, bleaches and laundry supplies.  Following is a list of must-haves for your laundry room:

Keep Laundry Irritants to a Minimum

Warning!

Irritations from soaps, perfumes, and dyes in laundry soap can be very irritating to some people’s skin. It may be nice to smell that spring air or fresh rain, but the cocktail of chemicals that it takes to produce that scent can irritate your skin or worse.

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