Laundry Day!!

Laundry Day!!, originally uploaded by L'Aubergine Grillée.

Eh Oui, when the sun is up all the laundry is hang up!

When I visit some cities like Beijing, Shanghai and even other parts of Singapore there are scene which intrigued me. Those are big metropolitan cities where most of the population live in the apartments, some are not ashamed of exposing outer-garments and underwear on long bambo poles to the public.

They are colourful and I love seeing them. Some photographer may find it amusing and captured them as an art. It is an ancient and important ritual every morning in the summer.

In my hometown, Jakarta, all of mothers are doing this common activities almost everyday. We live in the region where the sun shines all year long with a couple of rains and overcasted period in between. No dryer machine is needed, it is too costly to even have it. I'll bet they can go bankrupt in promoting the products there.

Last year for our laundry, we use the drying machine which provided by the owner of the house we rented. Because the house is sold to another person, the owner asked us to take everything that they left for us. Washing and dryer machine also the fridge are with us now. We are lucky with this kindness because we don't always buy a new things for new home. It safe us the trips to look, compare and delivery those machines from the shop. The machines still work well.

This year, we decided not to use it. Although we still have it, but we rather use nature to help us for this chore.

Some of our reasons not to use electric dryer machine, are;
- Save money
- Conserve energy and the environment.
- Clothes and sheets will smell summer sunshine.
- Sunlight bleaches and disinfects

If you have not tried doing it, please do so! This simple activity is one of the way to conserve and protect the environment. We can do our part!