This morning, Dupont and Christie, Toronto: wake up, toss a white load of laundry into the washing machine. make and eat breakfast. check emails. realize the washing machine isn't making noise anymore. it's been 30 min since i put it in, so go to check if it's broken. No. the laundry is just finished! Toss it into the dryer. speak to my brother on skype. hear the dryer buzzer go. put on warm socks and laugh at my brother because his morning was like this:
brother's flat, Finsbury Park, North London: wake up, toss a load of laundry into the washing machine. make and eat breakfast. an hour later talk to me on skype, laundry is still washing.
his afternoon will then consist of putting out his laundry to dry on drying racks scattered across his living room.
2 days later, his clothes will be dry.
Ok, no one likes a gloater, but my laundry experience laughs in the face of his. Being back in a land where it gets very cold every year means that having a dryer with your laundry is essential. A dryer that actually dries clothes (as opposed to the 2in1 washer dryers in England that actually don't dry your clothes but do make your wet clothes slightly warmer).
Yes, a dryer does mean that you end up using more energy, which is bad. But (and keep in mind I don't actually know how translate efficiency of energy, so I'm using time) it takes twice as long to just wash clothes in Britain than it does to wash and dry clothes here. That's got to mean that British washers are very inefficient.
Although we will likely put up a line across the balcony to dry clothes once it's warm in Toronto, for now, I'm very happy to have clean dry clothes an hour from dirty ones.
10 points Toronto
1.7 points London
This article fails to mention the large number of people who use laundromats because they have no laundry facilities at home. This is a giant pain in the bottom (I did it for years in Vancouver), and for your pain, I award you 5.6 points. Spend them wisely.
brother's flat, Finsbury Park, North London: wake up, toss a load of laundry into the washing machine. make and eat breakfast. an hour later talk to me on skype, laundry is still washing.
his afternoon will then consist of putting out his laundry to dry on drying racks scattered across his living room.
2 days later, his clothes will be dry.
Ok, no one likes a gloater, but my laundry experience laughs in the face of his. Being back in a land where it gets very cold every year means that having a dryer with your laundry is essential. A dryer that actually dries clothes (as opposed to the 2in1 washer dryers in England that actually don't dry your clothes but do make your wet clothes slightly warmer).
Yes, a dryer does mean that you end up using more energy, which is bad. But (and keep in mind I don't actually know how translate efficiency of energy, so I'm using time) it takes twice as long to just wash clothes in Britain than it does to wash and dry clothes here. That's got to mean that British washers are very inefficient.
10 points Toronto
1.7 points London
This article fails to mention the large number of people who use laundromats because they have no laundry facilities at home. This is a giant pain in the bottom (I did it for years in Vancouver), and for your pain, I award you 5.6 points. Spend them wisely.
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