• Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      Before the rents increased too much, I lucked into an old 1930’s era house in a rural town 1 hour away from work with all these lovely features:

      • Rotting fiberglass insulation
      • ungrounded outlets
      • no dishwasher
      • a clothesline instead of a dryer
      • non-catastrophic plumbing issues
      • unfinished drywall on the second floor
      • windows with busted opening mechanisms
      • gutters with holes rusted through them
      • a shitty-ass furnace that cost me $600/mo to heat my house to 60F last year

      All for the low-low price of “i can just barely afford the monthly mortgage payment”

      But now that I’m a homeowner, I’m considered wealthy these days. Yeah, don’t see myself swinging R anytime soon.

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        11 months ago

        I know this might not be relevant, but American obsession with dryers seems so weird to me lmao. I live in Germany and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a dryer, even at my rich friends parents house, and them mafakers had a sauna in the basement. Just kinda interesting how they are completely culturally irrelevant in one country, and considered almost a basic necessity in another.

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          In my part of Canada without a dryer you’d have damp, moldy clothes 9 months a year. I could hang them up inside to dry but I’d be running a dehumidifier beside them. We lived without a dryer for several years but it made laundry an extra pain in the ass and drying was always the bottleneck. No problem in the summer months with the clothesline.

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            11 months ago

            Yeah, I kinda suspected they were very useful/necessary in some parts and just spread to the rest because people move around a lot

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              11 months ago

              They are also, in the scheme of things, a very cheap and easy to install appliance (typically directly next to or on top the washer).