Please stop using cancer-causing dryer sheets and fabric softeners. We don’t need them! Why not cut down on fossil fuels by using drying racks and clotheslines instead of wasteful dryers? Why are we so lazy??!! I go for a nice walk to breathe some air and I get poison perfume from peoples’ dryer vents blowing out their disgusting fumes into the public air. Don’t they know what is in these squares?
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/toxic-chemicals-in-your-dryer-sheets-and-fabric-softener.html —JL
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2013.
you’d have to rip my clothesline from my prune wrinkled hands.
watching white sheets flapping in the sunshine and ocean breeze is damn near orgasmic.
Dryer sheets are the bomb for getting dried bugs off the front of your car!
Don’t try that in winter….your pants will stand at attention with no carcass in them
klyde, it’s too windy out hyah for the laundry to freeze stiff.
and a 1 and a 2
i can get three good sized loads on my line, plus we don’t own a dryer. on a day like today the stuff dries in an hour
I have a dryer, but the thing gets cobwebs. line dried stuff smells wonderful! and towels are more absorbent. those fabric softeners puff up but coat the towels with silicone or something. nasty! like trying to dry yourself with a sheet of saran wrap
On the off chance it’s raining and I can’t use the line, I’m not going to walk around with enough static in my drawers to set my pubes on fire, kthx. You can buy enviro-friendly laundry products, ffs.
Oh, fuck, now it’s the Killer Dryer Sheets!
You want a list of things that could potentially kill you? You’d need a decade to finish reading that fucking list.
I hate clothes lines, I hate static so it’s in ya go, Bouncy-Bounce and I’ll wear the consequences.
what kind of stuff has static?????
Mighty pretentious in the suburbs aren’t we?
I don’t use them, but fuck off anyway.
Pfft, jeans be all crusty and shit after drying on a rack.
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
OB is probably already wound up 1st thing in the morning wondering if their toothpaste is made out of too many chemicals (according to the colored square on the bottom of the tube, don’t ya know?)
Hallelujah! Finally, someone else who gets it. I was gonna write this bitch last week. As if scented fabric softeners aren’t aromatic enough, there are extra scents you can buy to add to your wash. Lovely, eh? But is there a price to pay for all these unnatural aromas that companies have convinced us we need to have?
Besides being absorbed by our skin when wearing chemically treated clothing there is the toxic waste water that bombards the environment every time the washer empties. Where do these chemical scents end up? Down the drain and into the nearest water source usually. Ours goes into the ocean. You know, that same ocean that our rainwater comes from. Yet we wonder about causes for increases in certain neurological disorders and conditions. As long as companies can come up with unecessary new products to maximize profits who really cares about long term risks? Sometimes, progress isn’t really progress at all.
Oh look, more ignorant green-tard idiots getting riled up about articles that don’t include citations or references to studies that aren’t hosted on other green-tard websites.
i’m just cheap and don’t want to buy a dryer, i live in the city
All those source sites cited in that article that look like they were designed in 92 by some middle aged dreadlocked, crunchy granola yoga fuck from BC who lives in a commune where they dance around their feed trough of barley oats and glucose free tofu wafers.
That’s how legit this is.
Common sense does not require citations and references.
“i can get three good sized loads on my line, plus we don’t own a dryer. on a day like today the stuff dries in an hour”
So how many days like today do we get in a year?
OB you must believe that it is the aim of businesses to kill their customers.
“Common sense does not require citations and references.”
Congratulations, you win the award for the most idiotic comment of the year.
there’s only 2 of us and the furnace vents onto clotheslines strung in the basement
Common sense is that people actually cite their articles with reputable sources, otherwise anyone could just make up any bullshit they want without having to prove anything. You green-washed idiots are so fucking bored with your uneventful suburban lives, you just need to make shit up in order to feel like you’re doing your part to save the world.
Pat yourself on the back for buying that organic “made with hemp” dish detergent (which by the way, is owned by the bad guy companies too!). Like it makes any fucking difference compared to the 300 tons of radioactive backwash that leaks from Fukishima everyday.
“Congratulations…”
You, like any of us, are entitled to your opinion. Where are your citations and references?
My pants stand at attention when I see a pretty girl.
I use a small washer/dryer combi because (a) I’m not allowed clothes lines and (b) my place is too small for drying racks (washer/dryer stacked combo is tucked away in a corner closet). I compensate for this somewhat by biking everywhere and retrofitting everything to the greatest extent possible (wrapped pipes, new windows, fancy bulbs, biking everywhere, buying local produce, etc). Most of this is done out of self interest rather than environmental altruism.
In other words, fuck off.
Does it make you feel better to call people idiots, BF? Really, I mean, come on.
Your generalizations and cliches about people who actually care about the planet are laughable. Nice try though.
Actually, it does make me feel better. Especially when they think “common sense” (i.e. whatever their opinion is, or whatever agenda they are trying to push) does not require references.
I usually make fun of people who get offended on here. But for once, I can say that statement is truly offensive. Not only is it just wrong, is undermines any kind of scientific process, any sort of critical thinking, and it actively promotes ignorance and indoctrination.
It would be nice, if ONE fucking generation would grow up with the concept of questioning what is told to them, basing what they say in proven facts, to stop listening to whatever fear mongering bullshit is fed to them and to think for themselves. But that won’t ever happen, and it’s because of people like you.
The safety of fabric softeners and dryer sheets are not an area I have really looked into before. Nice little project for me OP.
Kudos to everyone who uses their dryer minimally and uses the energy of the sun and wind. Not everyone has the time or ability to use a clothes line however. Though I don’t mind static so much, I really don’t the feel of towels after they have dried on the clothes line.
just because you cannot do everything, doesn’t mean you should do nothing
I use my clothesline because I love the way my clothes, sheets, towels, duvets feel and smell. but I also think its a good idea for all sorts of reasons.
reg, consider a line dried towel a free exfolient. no static on line dried stuff I believe. altho I don’t have a lot of plastic clothing.
bro time – are you nuts? I use my line all year, there are more than enough ‘days like this’ no matter what the temperature. and I live in foggy bottom. so I get more foggy days than the peninsula.
Oh dear, chemicals.
Wow I am scared.
I can’t live without chemicals.
Life cannot exist without chemicals.
Hooray for the chemical companies (How many drugs have they invented ?)
“How many drugs have they invented?”
Well how many things in this world can we medicate?
They’ve made a drug for every disorder!… or a disorder for every drug… I can’t remember anymore :S
Toxins are not good chemicals.
first im not allowed to kill people with peanut butter, now i cant kill people with these horrible scents?! geez i kinda like them, and my immune system isnt so fucked up like a lot of these milque-toast crybabies seem to be. Survival of the fittest…im gonna throw in peanut scented bounce sheets from now on!!! VIVA la revelucion!!
How do you deal with static op? I wear dresses in the summer and that shit clings like fuck without proper softening. I rub them with a hanger but that only minimally helps. And the static spray contains the same chemicals as the sheets.
Instead of just bellyaching like a dumb person, why not offer alternative solutions like a smart person?
The reality is op that LOTS of things cause cancer if used in extreme excess. In the same way that Mc Donalds makes you fat in excess. One mcdonalds meal a month on the other hand, does not.
Potatoes contain carcinogens too op, didn’t you know? And alcohol absolutely destroys your liver. Smoking ANYTHING causes a buildup of tar in your lungs. People who drive cars are 100% more likely to get into a car accident while they are behind the wheel.
Life’s risky op. Make your choices. Something will kill you eventually.
And yes op, I DO use my clothesline. Of course that only works when it’s not raining. I have absolutely zero space to hang clothing in my house. My house is not a hanging house. I’m not disagreeing with what you’re saying. I just find 17 year old fear mongering douchebags a little tedious.
“Something will kill you eventually.”
I hoping it will be a foursome with three gorgeous women.
Well one can dream.
I used to blow hash smoke through a papertowel roll filled with bounce sheets, when I lived in Rice residence. Worked like a charm!!!
it’s MY cancer. It’s MY electricity. It’s MY choice. Now, stop believing what you read online and eat a piece of cow.
They work well in shoes and on the back of a fan too….
mmmm, chemically goodness.
Out of all the bad things… these are by far the least likely to kill me.