who else is living without certain major appliances?

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.

No garbage disposal, and no microwave. The microwave just died, and I miss it. Counting down the days 'til the new one gets here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wow, I live alone and the only things I don’t have are a toaster and a landline. :smiley:

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. :slight_smile: 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.

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.

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?

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! :slight_smile:

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.