response 26 of 74:

Mar 31 06:35 UTC 1995

(What movie are you guys talking about?)

response 28 of 74:

Mar 31 06:53 UTC 1995

En droogtoestel. (In Dutch)

response 30 of 74:

Mar 31 12:30 UTC 1995

I believe it was a short story.

response 32 of 74:

Apr 1 05:00 UTC 1995

The "Y vent" thing used to get me.  On occasion, I might let my fully
dried clothes sit awhile before removing them.  Someone else would fire
up the neighboring dryer with their clothes, thus resulting in a bulk
transfer of water from their dryer to mine --> wet clothes.  It would
also happen in tandem if their dryer was set to a higher temperature than
mine.  Most annoying.  (The higher fryer beats the wrier dryer :)

response 34 of 74:

Apr 15 12:07 UTC 1995

Using a centrifuge will save several dryer cycles. 

response 36 of 74:

Apr 18 02:22 UTC 1995

I've noticed that if I put my clothes in for about ten minutes, then hang them
up, they don't wrinkle...it saves on a *ton* of ironing.  Plus, people are
happy to have the available dryer.

response 38 of 74:

Apr 18 11:30 UTC 1995

One of my friends in another dorm here has a dryer in their dorm that
never stops and you don't even have to put money in it.  Consequently, 
he always leaves it in there too long and when he has to take it out,
discovers that it's not only dry, but REALLY hot. ;)

Wrinkle clothes don't bother me either, at least not up here at school.

response 40 of 74:

Apr 18 15:41 UTC 1995

Yeah, I never iron my clothes...I put them in the dryer for 20 minutes (if at
all) and then put them on wet. Then they fit your body and don't bunch up.

response 42 of 74:

Apr 18 17:17 UTC 1995

Well, I don't iron *all* of my clothes, but the ones I wear for work or
important occasions have to look nice!  When it comes to jeans, it's wash and
wear.

response 44 of 74:

Apr 18 19:44 UTC 1995

Re: 41 Where did *that* come from? *sigh*

response 46 of 74:

Apr 19 00:58 UTC 1995

Of *course* I saw the smiley *sigh* I guess you didn't "see" mine... it
was intended thought... I forget grex doesn't let people hear you say
what you type. ;)

response 48 of 74:

May 30 05:29 UTC 1995

I've always wondered why most places seem to offer the same number of
dryers and washers in most facilities, despite the fact that running a
load through the washer takes around half the time it takes in the dryer.
Strange.  I guess it evens out in the fact that you can make due with
non-dryed clothes.

When I was in school, I'd hang-dry all my t-shirts (and I mostly wore
t-shirts, because the buildings were overheated so much that even in
the cold of winter one had to go down to a tshirt to be comfortable
indoors.)  Hanging them dry prevents shrinkage, prevents heat damage to
the design, and makes them easy to grab the next day.  You can dry at
a lower temperature to achieve the same effect, but since most college
dryers charge by time it's a waste of money to run them at any setting
other than "incinerate".

Jeans are always the hard stuff, of course.  I'd just hang the jeans, not
straight out of the washer but after one dryer cycle.  They weren't bone
dry, but they're dry enough that if I hang them they'll be dry tomorrow.
Things like socks and underwear are the only thing that really need to
come out of the dryer bone-dry, and they're not that hard to do.

Putting clothes through an extra spin cycle generally isn't an option for
most municipal laundry machines, as you cannot control the cycle other than
plunking money in to start it.  We did have one machine that acted as a
centerfuge, in that you would put clothes in, deposit your money, and it would
just spin for about five minutes and then stop.  Unfortunately this did not
seem to effectively spin the dirt out of the clothing, though it did help
make up for the machine next to it, which had a habit of stopping during
the rinse cycle without draining, let alone spinning.