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I was a pastors wife for 17 years. We lived in our own home about 12 miles from the church. No one ever came by our house. As far as hours go, I’m my experience pastors put in FAR more than the standard 40. There is so much behind the scenes work, along with a visiting and counseling. My husband couldn’t even write his sermons at church, there were far too many interruptions there.  Writing the sermon and actually preaching it was a very small portion of what he did. Funny story, when our son was in kindergarten he had to do some sort of thing about what his dad did for work. My son said he was a pastor and when another kid asked what that meant my son said it means he sets up all the tables and chairs at church each week 😂

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I would kill for a laundry room. In the basement, in the garage, next to the bathroom, I don't care.

We only have space for a very small washer in our bathroom. No space for a dryer. No garden or balcony for air drying. We have to dry our laundry in the living room. It was okay when there were only the two of us but since we have two small children the amount of laundry got huge. It sucks.

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A heated airer changed my life regarding getting washing dry especially in winter (I live in the UK where the weather is often very wet!) I still have it and it’s as good as it was when I purchased it over ten years ago. 
 

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On 1/13/2022 at 2:09 PM, just_ordinary said:

Hanging up washing is still pretty common here as well. Even if you have a dryer. In the summer it’s nice because it just smells so much better and because the clothes just last longer. And it saves still substantial energy costs even with a A+++. You would either dry outside or with a foldable rack inside. 
Additionally, most have their washing machine in the cellar/room were boiler and heating system are placed, the kitchen or bathroom (because the plumbing is already there and with solid concrete/stone walls and floors in every room you cannot just add extra plumbing easily). Extra utility rooms with space for washer/dryer/pantry close to the kitchen are a more recent thing for normal houses. I would love to have one or dabble in some serious pantry porn though.

I would love to hang up laundry more often. We have a cottage with a washer and dryer but - I would still love to do this there. How do you get the sheets soft when you line dry? Are they not stiff? 

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I grew up with clothes, bedding, towels, everything dried on a line outdoors year round. Bringing in frozen stiff towels and bedding was awful. I despised line dried everything and that baloney about "but they smell so wonderful". They were stiff, rough and uncomfortable! So grateful when we got a dryer - even in the basement! 

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I'm sneezing at the mere thought of all the pollen that would be in my clothes/bedding if I dried them outside. I do line dry some of my nicer/more delicate clothes, but only inside. 

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15 hours ago, GreenBeans said:

It’s the opposite for me! Until we moved this summer, we had no dryer because there wasn’t enough space in our old apartment. Now that we do, it’s a huge improvement! Having a toddler it feels like we’re doing laundry ALL THE TIME, and having a drying rack inside in winter isn’t great (due to humidity/mold). The clothes come out softer than air-dried, too, plus not having to hang/take down laundry is two steps less in the process and saves time. 
 

Most people here have dryers nowadays, but hanging out laundry is still common here, especially in summer and for people with a house and garden, and it’s definitely not a sign of poverty!

Oh, I wouldn't have felt that way if I still had a toddler.  Mine are old enough to drive themselves to the laundry mat if they don't want to line dry.  :) 

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On 1/12/2022 at 8:07 PM, backyard sylph said:

I never heard of washer/dryers in a garage.

I grew up with the dryer in the garage (the washer was upstairs in a closet behind sliding doors). Once someone left the dryer door open (and the garage door open) to answer the front door and a neighborhood opossum climbed in to enjoy the warm clothes.

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1 minute ago, HereticHick said:

I grew up with the dryer in the garage (the washer was upstairs in a closet behind sliding doors). Once someone left the dryer door open (and the garage door open) to answer the front door and a neighborhood opossum climbed in to enjoy the warm clothes.

In our last house, our dryer was on the first floor, against an exterior wall, so it vented right out the wall behind it. The vent opening on the outside was only about a foot off the ground. One night I tried to turn on the dryer and it made an awful thumping noise and then shut off. My husband took it apart to find a 5 foot rat snake wrapped in the motor fan. The builder had forgotten to install the exterior vent cover flap. That was a fun night. 

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1 hour ago, HereticHick said:

I grew up with the dryer in the garage (the washer was upstairs in a closet behind sliding doors). Once someone left the dryer door open (and the garage door open) to answer the front door and a neighborhood opossum climbed in to enjoy the warm clothes.

I feel like I would simultaneously freak out and be so charmed by that.

1 hour ago, OHFL2009 said:

In our last house, our dryer was on the first floor, against an exterior wall, so it vented right out the wall behind it. The vent opening on the outside was only about a foot off the ground. One night I tried to turn on the dryer and it made an awful thumping noise and then shut off. My husband took it apart to find a 5 foot rat snake wrapped in the motor fan. The builder had forgotten to install the exterior vent cover flap. That was a fun night. 

But I would not be charmed by that, just freaked out!

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I’m currently an apartment dweller but I really want a house with a laundry chute. I blame Kevin McCalister. 

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5 minutes ago, Father Son Holy Goat said:

I’m currently an apartment dweller but I really want a house with a laundry chute. I blame Kevin McCalister. 

I want a laundry chute too!! Our house is perfectly set up to have a chute in the main bedroom closet that would be able to go right to the laundry room!

same with our old house. My husband thinks that’s the most ridiculous thing he has ever heard of- having a chute. But he also thought an en suite bathroom was dumb till we got one.

I think they are against code though

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6 minutes ago, Father Son Holy Goat said:

I’m currently an apartment dweller but I really want a house with a laundry chute. I blame Kevin McCalister. 

We have a laundry chute in our house I’ve purposely hidden from my 9 and 6 year old. Because I don’t want them throwing shit down it all the time just for kicks. I’m a mean mommy. They will be so mad when they eventually find it. 

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29 minutes ago, Father Son Holy Goat said:

I’m currently an apartment dweller but I really want a house with a laundry chute. I blame Kevin McCalister. 

When we were shopping for a new house I asked about a laundry chute. Apparently they are no longer allowed because they violate the fire code. 

24 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

We have a laundry chute in our house I’ve purposely hidden from my 9 and 6 year old. Because I don’t want them throwing shit down it all the time just for kicks. I’m a mean mommy. They will be so mad when they eventually find it. 

You aren’t a mean mommy. My mom’s house has one. When my nephew discovered it he would throw stuff down it over and over again. He showed it to each successive grandchildren on down to my kid. Toys were tossed over and freaking over. 

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1 hour ago, Father Son Holy Goat said:

I’m currently an apartment dweller but I really want a house with a laundry chute. I blame Kevin McCalister. 

I was an adult when I realized all houses didn't have laundry chutes, I still resent every home I've had since without one.

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4 minutes ago, nst said:

am i late to this convo about the seewalds getting a new house? is it an old video because she looks like she is expecting fern? 

Yep, she confirmed it was an old video and she's not pregnant now.

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4 hours ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

I was an adult when I realized all houses didn't have laundry chutes, I still resent every home I've had since without one.

We never had a laundry chute.  I’ve only seen them on TV.

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Oh, I always wanted a laundry chute too, as well as a dumbwaiter, from seeing it in Harriet the Spy film.

Currently our washing machine is in the kitchen (the standard place in the UK and Ireland if you don't have a laundry room/utitility room). We don't have a tumble dryer and live in a small flat in what would have been temperate rainforest (all the trees in the park next to us have moss and ferns growing all over them). Our flat is pretty well insulated, but we have yet to have a day when we can dry things outside here, and everything takes an age on the clotheshorse and radiators. I love line drying (laundry is my favourite chore) and going out to hang things. We had a great line between two trees in the garden in the previous house, but I am always rather optamistic about things actually drying outside in anything but summer. More than once I have put things out too late, and they have had to stay out overnight, or have been actually rained on and come in wetter than they went out. 

When I was on a Scottish island everyone did lots of drying on lines because it was so very windy! Or they had an airer which could be lifted up to the ceiling inside the house. In Belgium I think most of the houses I lived in had a utility or laundry room, usually next to the kitchen, or the room which had the door to the garden (or both). We used clothes lines and those ones that spin round and fold like umbrellas. And the places I rented never had laundry facilities and I had to take things to the laundrette (you were expected to bring your washing machine with you if you had one, there was hook up)

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4 hours ago, Sheltie said:

We never had a laundry chute.  I’ve only seen them on TV.

I live in an old neighborhood. Most houses were built in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Which mean many of the houses built around a certain time have things in common. One of those things is a laundry chute. Therefore many houses around here have them. Some houses also have a laundry catcher in the basement. It’s like a wooden box with a door that catches the laundry so it doesn’t fall on the floor. I wish ours had that. But ours would just pop out onto the basement floor. 

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1 hour ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

I live in an old neighborhood. Most houses were built in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Which mean many of the houses built around a certain time have things in common. One of those things is a laundry chute. Therefore many houses around here have them. Some houses also have a laundry catcher in the basement. It’s like a wooden box with a door that catches the laundry so it doesn’t fall on the floor. I wish ours had that. But ours would just pop out onto the basement floor. 

That's what we had.  Great hiding place for hide and seek unless you have a brother that thinks it's hilarious to use a broom to keep the door from opening and then forgets you're in there when he goes out with his friends. 

Not that I'm emotionally scarred and still bring it up every time I see him or anything.

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I would love a laundry chute. We had a communal rubbish chute in a tower block I used to live in and it was the best thing ever. Never knew where it all ended up.

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Separate laundries are pretty standard in Australia, although “European Laundries” - in a cupboard - are becoming more popular in new places. I love my laundry (we just call it that, not laundry room).  I have three washing baskets (lights, darks, towels), separate washing machine and dryer, laundry tub, second fridge, a fold down ironing board, and a big cupboard to store eg beach towels, games, sporting equipment etc. It’s right off the family room, and has a door straight out to the clothes line. The dryer is barely used - just to finish things off for a few minutes in winter, or if it’s been raining for a week.   When we extended upstairs 23 years ago I tried REALLY hard to incorporate a laundry chute, sadly it just didn’t work. 
 

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17 hours ago, Meggo said:

I would love to hang up laundry more often. We have a cottage with a washer and dryer but - I would still love to do this there. How do you get the sheets soft when you line dry? Are they not stiff? 

Not gonna lie- they are not as soft as out of the dryer. Thankfully I have a husband that irons (otherwise things wouldn’t be ironed) a lot of our stuff and I do like stiffer towels more than softer. Probably because I like to give myself a good rub after shower and it feels as if they take up more moisture? And after the first use they are pretty soft again. Sheets are not really that stiff to begin with and when they are stretching on the bed it makes almost no difference. Same as wit towels- after using it once there is really no difference anymore. 

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