Money is tight all over- work, home, nationally, internationally- what can we do? Small things do count. Like minimizing the use of your clothes dryer. Some advise using it for heat in winter by disconnecting the vent hose from going outside, but if you have a gas-fueled dryer that may not be safe. Even for an electric, you'll be releasing warm, WET air into your house, and you may have problems if condensation forms and mildews your furnishings. Some fungi like cool, wet conditions. Our dryer growing up actually blistered the silvering from the back of the mirror of an antique sideboard. So if you use a clothes dryer to double-duty heat your house, use caution.
If you have an old house like we do, you may be blessed with a partially or fully floored attic with stairs. After we bought the house, I noticed clothes lines in the attic. I thought nothing of it until one day I went up there for something on a sunny day and thought, "It's as hot as the clothes dryer up here!". Then it clicked. So now I hang clothing in the attic (morning or evening), then go back later and get it. Solar clothes drying. What an idea.
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