For the last two and a half months we have been without a dryer. There is so many loads of laundry to do that I was so behind and finally set up a line in our little backyard and started to hang dry some things. thankfully I have a mom and mother in law nice enough to do the kids clothes so that they weren't crispy from hang drying. thank you both! Well we finally got a dryer from my parents who got a new one and it's been a week and I am still trying to get caught up. you don't realize how much you use certain things until they are gone.