We're getting our new home ready for occupation and here's an interesting dilemma - There are hardly any clothes dryers available here. Our landlord who left his clothes washer behind didn't use a dryer (just like everyone else). So how do folks dry their clothes? They hang it out to dry of course. This is fine for families with one working member and another taking care of the household chores during the day but for a family such as ours with both adults working, we'll need a maid to operate the clothes washer since it will have to be done during the day. We hadn't thought of a maid as a necessity for our home just yet but we'll have to make the definitive call soon.
The economics go like this - a dryer costs about Rs. 17000 to purchase, plus you need the space. If you were to employ a maid, you would (from what I've learned) pay the person an extra Rs. 300 a month to run the washer and put your clothes out to dry. Factoring in the small size of the washing machine we have at home, washing is going to be a daily chore and if we were to use a dryer, we'll likely pay that Rs. 300 to the Electricity Board anyway, so why not just add another task for that ubiquitous maid?
The one (big) plus to having a dryer is that you can run multiple loads the same day when required without having to worry about running out of clothesline. Decisions, decisions! Hmm..
2 comments:
Hello Arvind.. An interesting topic indeed. Hope life is all well and I am sure exciting.
With the extent of power cuts in Bangalore you definitely cannot have a clothes dryer. They will not run on generator power(unless you have your own high power generator) Electricity consumption will definitely be higher. I used to wonder why stupid people in Arizona used the clothes dryer so much. All they needed was a clothes line and in 1 hour the clothes will be dry for the kind of heat we had there.
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