# who else is living without certain major appliances? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 15, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275 "2007-09-15T03:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/41 "2007-09-17T15:17:45Z")
I don’t have a dishwasher yet. We moved into an older bungalow that hasn’t been updated. We won’t be getting a dishwasher for a few months yet. Thankfully, there are only two of us, and we usually wash up our own stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/42 "2007-09-17T15:27:19Z")
No garbage disposal, and no microwave. The microwave just died, and I miss it. Counting down the days 'til the new one gets here. ---
**Author:** ![Point\_No\_Point](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Point\_No\_Point](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Point_No_Point)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/43 "2007-09-17T15:28:19Z")
I don’t have a fridge. When I moved into this “artist’s live-work loft” there was none and I thought it would be temporary, but I’m still broke, so I just don’t bother. My milk is cool enough for a couple days in a bin under the cement stairs and everything else I eat is fresh or canned. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/44 "2007-09-17T15:28:45Z")
This thread prompts me to speak up in defense of dryers (Al Gore, forgive me). Here in Cairo where it is sunny and arid, sure - you can hang your laundry out outside to dry on a clothesline and hey, it will be dry indeed. But: a) Bright sunlight fades everything, really fast. b) There is DUST and CRAP in the air, which gets into your clothes when they are line-dried. c) Line-dried clothing is often unpleasantly stiff. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/45 "2007-09-17T16:35:10Z")
I don’t own a toaster or blender, but I would like one. We’re also living without cable, which doesn’t bother me in the slightest. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/46 "2007-09-17T18:38:49Z")
No dishwasher,threw the old one out in the process of re-model and never got a new one (yet). So the kitchen is ‘pimped out’ (as the kids say) but for the gaping hole where there should be a dishwasher. No air-conditioner,I live in Alaska.(I do have AC in California though) No hard-line phone, I dont see the need as I have a cell with a good plan and cable internet. No garbage disposal, don’t see the need. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/47 "2007-09-17T19:22:19Z")
Wow, I live alone and the only things I don’t have are a toaster and a landline. 😃 I don’t get the folks who live alone and are down on dishwashers: I put stuff in there after I use it, and when the dishwasher gets full – or I run out of forks – I run it overnight. It takes all of 5-10 minutes to unload it the next day. The only savings I can see related to not using one would be the electricity. It probably uses roughly the same amount of water that washing things separately by hand would, I don’t run it very often so I hardly ever have to buy more detergent, and I think it uses way less of my time. To each their own, I suppose. 🙂 More personally, it’s a lifesaver to me on holidays (or whenever I have more than just my own dish to wash) because standing at the sink hurts my back after a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/48 "2007-09-18T00:05:29Z")
I’d do without a washer before I’d do without a dryer. Fer sure. I hate crunchy clothing. I can (and have) done laundry in the bath tub, but I have to have a dryer. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/49 "2007-09-18T00:28:22Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I’d do without a washer before I’d do without a dryer. Fer sure. I hate crunchy clothing. I can (and have) done laundry in the bath tub, but I have to have a dryer. [/QUOTE] There was a great thread about dryers a while back. I have always thought of a dryer as something you only really need to use in an emergency if it’s raining solidly, and have always preferred line-drying clothes - preferred it by a mile. The clothes are “fresher” somehow. To me, they smell better (I’m not talking about doing this in places like Cairo though). It’s a bit like how sunlight is nicer than artificial light. I was totally surprised to find the general view in the US seemed to be the exact opposite. “Crunchy” clothes? What’s that all about? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/50 "2007-09-18T01:02:12Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] There was a great thread about dryers a while back. I have always thought of a dryer as something you only really need to use in an emergency if it’s raining solidly, and have always preferred line-drying clothes - preferred it by a mile. The clothes are “fresher” somehow. To me, they smell better (I’m not talking about doing this in places like Cairo though). It’s a bit like how sunlight is nicer than artificial light. I was totally surprised to find the general view in the US seemed to be the exact opposite. “Crunchy” clothes? What’s that all about? [/QUOTE] Everything is wrinkled and “hard.” It’s rough and uncomfortable. The tumbling (combined with fabric softener sheets) makes the clothes soft and much less wrinkled. I do prefer sunlight to artificial light, though! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275/51 "2007-09-19T04:34:45Z")
The clothes (and as far as I’ve noticed, only the towels) are only stiff until you give them a good shake and wad them up a bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-living-without-certain-major-appliances/419275.md?page=2)