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[pegkerr]

Good morning, LJ! Here's what I've been up to on Twitter today.

• 15:26 Intriguing suggestion: #susanboyle should sing the theme song for the next James Bond movie. After hearing her "Cry Me a River" I agree. #
• 15:29 @KristinaHorner: It said WHAT? #
• 22:46 Am thinking of adopting some green habits I've never seriously considered before. Hankies, not Kleenex? Clothes line, not dryer? Hmm.. #

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[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

My husband adopted some thrift-store napkins to use as his hankies; it seems to work well.

As for clothesline vs. dryer, we actually dry our clothes by line when we visit my husband's mother (she has no dryer). The results are much stiffer and less comfortable to wear, although they smell good. If it rains, you end up with drying clothes draped all over your house. I've actually considered it, but it is much more work, particularly with kids' clothes.

I, and thee other members of my household

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

have allergies that cause us to blow our noses a LOT during our various allergy periods (we're not afflicted from freeze end to freeze start, just afflicted during several blooming periods of stuff we're allergic too.

Tissues are flimsy and likely very biodegradable. I pretty much don't want to touch them after they're used. I do not want to even think about cloth hankies, it just disgusts me.

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

I am always astounded about the number of Americans who DONT line dry. Here in Australia the clothes dryer is the last resort - ie its been pissing down for 4 days straight and you are about to run out of underwear.

[schnoogle.livejournal.com]

Haha yes. My family (parents + 3 kids) didn't have a drier until I was almost out of high school. I guess our weather is much sunnier than a lot of other places. :) Then again, my grandparents live in London and my grandmother line dries their laundry in her kitchen during winter.

[aome.livejournal.com]

We line-dry our clothes outside all summer long. The only thing I still put in the dryer in summer are sheets because some of us have unspecified allergies and while wearing clothes from outside doesn't seem to bother anyone, I figure putting your face in a pillowcase is different. As someone else said, the clothes are sometimes a bit stiffer, but that only lasts a few minutes until it conforms to your body heat; I find the clothes actually tend to be *less* wrinkled, though, if I give them a good shake as I hang them up, they smell fantastic, and, of course, save energy. Also, I can hang stuff up by person (all of MiniPlu's together, all Two's together), which makes for much easier sorting/folding/putting away afterwards.

I can't imagine that different hanky brands make that much difference. Just a square of light cotton - you could probably make some yourself (or Delia could, if she needs a new craft project).