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Ohhhhhh!

On Monday evening I threw a load of laundry into the dryer and, for something a little new and different, I set the controls to the permanent press low heat cycle. And for even extra fun, I set the buzzer on the dryer to go off when the load was finished.

I recalled thinking that there was a reason why I don’t use the permanent press cycle on the dryer, but I couldn’t remember what it was. I haven’t used the perma-press cycle in...well...years.

Well, now I remember.

This morning I got to thinking that either I’m deaf as a stone or the buzzer never went off on the dryer. I didn’t hear it and the thing is REALLY loud. I wandered down to the basement to get the laundry out of the dryer and my little socks were just about shocked right out the window when I heard the dryer still going.

Thank goodness it was set at a low heat setting or I’d likely have either found crisp fried clothes or suffered a fire.

The thing that made me cringe the most, however, was thinking how much electricity I’ve used in the last couple of days. Man, that really hurts. Every gain I’ve made in conserving electricity this past month just went kerflooey.

It’s not that I need a new dryer exactly, but I guess I won’t forget why I don’t use the perma-press cycle again. As I now vaguely recall, the perma-press cycle stopped working about three weeks after I brought the dryer home.

But...all that electricity I just wasted! :::sob:::

Posted on 11/01/06 at 07:06 PM
 




cassie-b

I’ve had nightmares about that kind of thing.

Cas

United States   Posted by cassie-b on 11/01/06  at  07:12 PM





Linkmeister

We finally got around to changing our laundry gear when it started taking 9 or 10 hours to get 3 loads fully dry (on the regular cycle).

Now I get 3 loads washed and dried in 2+ hours, and that’s with 40-50 minutes for the load of towels all by itself.

United States   Posted by Linkmeister on 11/01/06  at  08:19 PM





cyn

I don’t think it is broken Kate.....I think that is what the perma-press cycle does. Keeps running and running and...so your clothes do not lay in a heap and get wrinkled.  At least that is what I remember from mine.....like you, I stopped using that cycle years ago because it never shut off.... It is easier to take something that needs pressing and press it or if I am in a hurry, just throw it back in the dryer with a damp towel and in 10 minutes wrinkles are gone..........Now if I could just do that with my face!! laughter

United States   Posted by cyn on 11/02/06  at  09:03 AM





Kate

Cyn, that’s a possibility. Everything was nice and dry and wrinkle free, but the buzzer should have gone off. Ferget that. My old system worked...turn the dryer on and go back down in 40 minutes to haul out the slightly damp shirts to hang on the rack and then let the rest finish out the cycle.

With regard to wrinkles...I just saw an ad on TV the other night with Diane Keaton. She was pitching some youth preserving concoction, but I noticed that the camera used a soft filter that made her look very smooth and youthful. Now, if science could just figure out how to let us wander through our day with that soft filtered aura surrounding us everywhere we go, they’d really be onto something.

United States   Posted by Kate on 11/02/06  at  01:01 PM





cyn

or maybe we could just use something that makes us THINK we are going around with a soft filtered aura surrounding us..........oh wait, been there, done that............oh so many years ago monkey dance

My last photoshoot I asked if they still put vaseline on the lens.....he looked at me like I was nuts.  But, now with digital technology, they can make you look just about anyway you or they want you to look!! ;)

United States   Posted by cyn on 11/02/06  at  10:31 PM





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