What is so hard to understand about Do laundry during the day!!

[Mattb4]

I swear my wife is bored or looking for ways to say “ See this Solar doesn’t work”.


How many times now have I asked “Can you please do the laundry once a week during the day?”
Nah every night.
Pair of socks dirty. Do laundry.
Rug got a leaf on it.
Do the laundry.
Washcloth dirty
Do the laundry.

This runs the well pump, the water heater and not to mention a Dryer.

Am I the only one who has this issue?

It’s no wonder I dont have any hair left..

Sounds more like that she has a routine. Many of us are creatures of habit. For them it is very difficult to break the normal pattern that they have. Some form of incentive/disincentive is required. This works best if they are the ones that set that. An outside force often creates resistance. "You can't tell me what to do", might not be stated but it is there.

If after all your attempts to reason have failed the only prudent thing is to design around the problem.

 

[hugemoth]

Remind her of the wisdom of the centuries old proverb, "Make hay while the sun shines."

 

[Nobodybusiness]

This is why the desert nest is close to the new laundromat. Once a week 1 1/2 hours, done. Also has showers with unlimited hot water.

That’s nice for unlimited hot water.

 

[Nobodybusiness]

Sounds more like that she has a routine. Many of us are creatures of habit. For them it is very difficult to break the normal pattern that they have. Some form of incentive/disincentive is required. This works best if they are the ones that set that. An outside force often creates resistance. "You can't tell me what to do", might not be stated but it is there.

If after all your attempts to reason have failed the only prudent thing is to design around the problem.

I think you’re right.
I’m sure it’s habitual and 50+ years of it.

Probably just have to put a timer on the circuit like Tim said.

 

[littleharbor2]

Off-grid women get it, otherwise your looked upon as being so frugal (cheap) as to be the electricity police. Gotta love them "off -grid" women.

 

[Brett V]

My problem with the warden hasn't been time of use so much as using everything at the same time.
No dear, you can't run the toaster oven and microwave at the same time while drying your hair with the air conditioning on.
Had to replace the 6k Growatt with a 12k just for surge capacity.

 

[Mattb4]

On the subject I found my clothes dryer inoperable this morning. Not sure where to start troubleshooting the problem.

 

[sunshine_eggo]

Count yourself lucky you've got a wife who actually does the laundry

You know what... I forgot something... That's another key point... My wife and I entered into a pre-marital contract where I would "manage" the laundry. It's up to me to deliver a clean basket of clothes... my wife does all the folding put/away, so technically *I* am in control of when the laundry is in the washer and dryer.

I still feel lucky.

 

[Brett V]

On the subject I found my clothes dryer inoperable this morning. Not sure where to start troubleshooting the problem.

Maybe have her wear a good warm pair of boots?

 

[@prepared_life]

I've kind of solved this problem by using a heat pump dyer. I was able to secure an open box from best buy with a 3 year warranty for somewhere around $300 US. We also went with a heat pump water heater. No problem running everything at once. I also believe we can get a tax credit for the appliances when we do taxes.

 

[theimportanceofbeing]

You know what... I forgot something... That's another key point... My wife and I entered into a pre-marital contract where I would "manage" the laundry. It's up to me to deliver a clean basket of clothes... my wife does all the folding put/away, so technically *I* am in control of when the laundry is in the washer and dryer.

I still feel lucky.

That's very modern of you , you're positively a feminist!

 

[sunshine_eggo]

That's very modern of you , you're positively a feminist!

We both hate laundry.
We are both each other's second spouse.
We both had an engagement we broke off between marriages.

If nothing else, we learned the power of compromise along the way.

 

[jimf909]

Good rant.

Can't this be solved with an extra battery or two and some meditation?

- At some point the infrastructure needs to serve the people, not the other way around.
- At some point I found it helpful to recognize and enjoy (or at least not be annoyed by) the embedded traits in my family members.
- My spouse washes clothes too frequently. She doesn't do dishes as often as I'd prefer so that's become my task. She splits and stacks far more than her share of the firewood. She thinks about food needs well before the 45 mile grocery run so I'm not eating sardines all day.
- She tolerates me spending too much time on the internets.

Buy her a battery for Valentine's Day.

 

[G00SE]

Buy her a battery for Valentine's Day.

?

 

[dougbert]

I fail to see the problem.

This is a justification to buy more solar & batteries.

yes, yes - the Wife Limit Motif, equal budgets

finally got my system big enough with even the electric stove on battery.

power grid breaker is turned off to the inverter
now I use Chargeverter to float the battery (using grid) at low voltage but still with some battery reserve. When the sun comes out and charges the battery enough, chargeverter is turned off automatically

I use the main inverter to invert NOT to charge batteries

to me, that is a GREAT FEATURE

 

[Crowz]

Our policy since the very first inverter setup was WE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT from the solar stuff.

This was tad tricky before the invention of hybrid inverters since it required playing the reliant transfer panel like a piano to keep things running on solar when possible.

After getting the hybrid inverter it's a no brainer. Whatever the solar panels can shave off they shave off. What they can't provided it draws from the grid.

Solar is nice and all but we flat out live by WE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT because of the solar stuff.


The wife and I had watched tv shows and visited people running on solar and seeing how they tailored their entire lives around what power they had available. Doing without a good bit of the time and being limited on when they could use power for different things.

We found this to be stupid in our opinion thus the reason for the motto

 

[Tulex]

What ever you do, don't ask her if you need to make if fool proof so that she can use it....

 

[upnorthandpersonal]

She is interested in an indoor system to hang clothes to dry.

You mean, something like this?

Driers (the machine kind) are not too common here to begin with compared to washing machines. That said, I went with a heat pump drier as well and it's awesome.

 

[upnorthandpersonal]

Maybe have her wear a good warm pair of boots?

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Only the Swedes do that. Here in Finland we dry our clothes inside on a rack (like pictured in my post above) in winter: helps increase the humidity levels.

 

[Tulex]

You mean, something like this?

Driers (the machine kind) are not too common here to begin with compared to washing machines. That said, I went with a heat pump drier as well and it's awesome.

Not sure yet. Maybe an umbrella ( we have a spare room it would fit in ), or a pully system.

 

[nc73]

Your wife is right, solar doesn't work. At least not all the time. It's not worth the cost to buy more panels and batteries. I wouldn't have solar if I didn't have grid to supplement or in case there is cloud cover.

 

[Nobodybusiness]

Good rant.

Can't this be solved with an extra battery or two and some meditation?

- At some point the infrastructure needs to serve the people, not the other way around.
- At some point I found it helpful to recognize and enjoy (or at least not be annoyed) the embedded traits in my family members.
- My spouse washes clothes too frequently. She doesn't do dishes as often as I'd prefer so that's become my task. She splits and stacks far more than her share of the firewood. She thinks about food needs well before the 45 mile grocery run so I'm not eating sardines all day.
- She tolerates me spending too much time on the internets.

Buy her a battery for Valentine's Day.

We bought 270KWh of batteries
I think that’s enough.
We have a 30kw array and that’s not enough to charge it in the winter.
I would have to cover my yard in panels to charge it up in the winter.

Spring , Summer, Fall. no issue. Do all the laundry you want whenever you want.

Surely we can compromise to do laundry once a week in the winter when there is only 2 of us now.

 

[B-Mod]

Be prepared to wait 5 hours for stuff to be dry ?

Nope, false.

 

[Nobodybusiness]

Your wife is right, solar doesn't work. At least not all the time. It's not worth the cost to buy more panels and batteries. I wouldn't have solar if I didn't have grid to supplement or in case there is cloud cover.

I’m not giving the POCOs another dime if I can help it..

 

[Eber]

I think i got you all beat, my exwife used to take the lint from the dryer, pull the screen and stuff the lint in the hole. Then she would stuff the screen in on top of the lint. This resulted in huge fights but it was the same as talking to a wall. She eventually caught that dryer on fire and i had to get a new one.
She tried the same crap but this dryer had a differential switch in it that shut it down for plugged discharge. Hah, my dryer was smarter than her. She had no choice but to dig out what she jammed in.


All my problems left in a single day and the new girlfriend has no issues following the rules regarding solar use of the dryer. As a matter of fact. She is always asking first before using a lot of hot water or laundry washing.