Saving electricity - clothes rack

I have always been wanting to hang-dry the laundry. Kiwi has always been against it. My thing is to save money on electricity, and his thing is that hanging clothes outside to dry makes the clothing stink like the city.

Personally I don't find this city or even this neighbourhood very polluted at all. But I suppose he has "standards" because if his clothes are hung outdoors, it's supposed to smell like the country. Eh, whatever.

So our compromise is to dry the clothing inside the house. Which took me about a week of walking around the various local stores, and looking online, before finding a drying rack that I'm used to using back when I was in Singapore.

I finally had to order it online. The 65 feet Eagle Clothes Drying Rack. Argh, so expensive. But I should recoup the investment eventually.

When it was delivered, Kiwi sneered at it. He said it looks flimsy, and not big enough. I'm not sure what he had in mind, but I'm the one doing the laundry, so I get to pick! *I* like it. It's exactly what I used to have, except for the colour.

It is now set up in the pantry area, right next to an air vent, in front of the glass brick windows. I think that's the best area (in terms of air-flow and sun) but rather unsightly. But I don't want to be hanging it in the dark, enclosed basement laundry area. EW.

There's a full load of whites hanging on it right now. And when I say full, I mean it was a load that filled up the washing machine. Eight bath towels, some kitchen towels, and a whole week's worth of Kiwi's whites - undershirts, assorted t-shirts, whitey-tighties and socks.

After hanging the whites, I actually called Kiwi at work, and told him what I did, plus there was still room to spare on the rack. He sounded reluctantly impressed. But said he'd have to come home and look at how I did it. He knew it was a large load of clothes. He had carried the dirty laundry down to the basement last night for me.

Anyway, I'm so boring. Going on and on about laundry.