Green Meets Frugality

So the communal dryer in our apartment building SUCKS. Even a small load takes two cycles to get completely dry. Have a pair of jeans in there? Forgettaboutit. So out of frustration and frugality because I refuse to spend two dollars to dry a single load of laundry, I've resorted to drying as many loads as possible by air on our collapsible drying racks. We have an apartment so setting up an outdoors drying line is not possible. We don't have a balcony like our neighbors either, so drying a load during the winter/early spring has been a two-day process on average. Two loads can usually dry at once between our three racks, as long as a lot of socks aren't involved. Towels and sheets are still dried in the dryer because they just don't fit on the racks. But all in all, it makes me proud to at least pretend that this is all out of an effort to be more green. Granted, it contributes to our effort to live more green, but the cheap part of my personality rejoices. Even though it takes half our living room.