We continue to get settled into our new place here in Rome, which includes doing chores like laundry.
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| Our little laundry room off the kitchen |
We have an automatic washing machine, but many Americans are taken aback to find no electric clothes
dryers here. (Much like friends visiting Seattle are often amazed to find
virtually no home air conditioners there.) We’ve done a few loads of laundry since we arrived, using the manual clothes dryers in the house.
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| Our main clothes dryer gets stored behind the dining room door ... |
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| All this dried in about a day ... we'll see what happens in winter! |
Either way, it definitely takes more time than back home but the clothes smell great and it feels so virtuous. Life in the slower lane for sure. We have at least one Seattle friend who dries her laundry this old fashioned way as often as possible. (Hi, Gail, hope you are well!) What about the rest of you: how often do you avoid the electric dryer?
When I lived in AZ we had only a clothesline. Learned the hard way to only hang up clothes at night. The AZ sun bleached all the color out of your clothes and destroyed all elastic. (We wore lots of slouchy 80s looking socks and had to keep yanking our underwear up as the elastic died.) You're lucky and won't have this problem when drying your clothes in the mosquito swamp.
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