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Originally Posted by orchidsarefun
Clothes are hung out to dry on clotheslines, in windows or on furniture in many parts of the world. You may find it strange, probably the way we felt when we got to the USA and thought "but clothes need fresh air" to dry, smell and feel good.
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Or as one neighbor puts it (fortunately this one speaks fluent english) "I like the smell of the sun!" Upon hearing about this type of "smell," I started putting my nose to the drying laundry, and after some practice, I think I "got" it too...
No it's not because they can't afford it, believe me, thai people are creatures of comfort - they would spend money on comfort over food. It's just that the idea of drying clothes "un-naturally" goes against the grain of their "living in harmony with nature" philosophy. The smell of the sun is basically a stamp of good-housekeeping upon a housechore properly completed, in this case, clothes drying. [Or maybe they're like the Mayans, it's a token of sun-worshipping?]
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Originally Posted by Dollythehun
I see. Don't they make mini clothes dryers for small apartments? I thought I have seen some countertop ones. Or maybe a terrarium with lights? Forgive me for trying to "fix" things.I can't imagine a life without an orchid...
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Now there's a recent addition of a small, compact (and obviously "pre-owned") dryer to the half-dozen of coin-op washers in our laundry coop. With a sparse instruction band on top that says :"requires (a coin of) 10 baht to start," it stands apart from the rest; lonesome, stoic and indifferent to the indifference it faces in regards to its raison d'etre.
To your big sigh of relief, Dolly, no, I won't go for a life without orchids either. Even though I sometimes could be accused of treating orchid plants as cut flowers, I valiantly march on with them. Here is a pic of the mokaras (I now have two) which seem to be doing ok on the balcony.
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Originally Posted by orchidsarefun
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Wow, that's alarming
...I probably should start ironing my clothes - the process of which shall begin with the purchase of an iron - which has never been part of my travelling knicknacks. Maybe it's time (and sign) for me to settle down...
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