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. 
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.
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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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! 
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.