Buying A House: C or D?

you have to spend time a house to fall in love with it

And for it to fall down on YOU *golf swing*

xxxp Nice. Same situation but different houses.

is it a slab or raised foundation?

been really into foundations

raised

Need post and pier replacement, perimeter wall, or floor releveling?

post and pier, maybe.

if we even get the house.

not only is there no dishwasher

there is also no clothes dryer

"i don't even own a dishwasher"

or AC, but I believe the consensus was that Real Santa Barbarans (?) don't do AC.

That's right. We derisively call people with AC "Spanos" and they're excluded from the solstice drum circle.

Having AC would be amazing

You’re in a damn desert Hang ur clothes

^this

It smells good in Santa Barbara

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Well, hang your clothes, but SB isn't a desert (even LA isn't a desert).

dry your clothes in the Santa Ana winds as you drink Kirschwasser from a shell

think of the lack of clothes dryer as a favor they are doing you, so that you can purchase a new one yourselves, as opposed to dealing with an existing one with expensive annoying problems you have to get fixed.

tbh if you don't have kids and you live in southern california then you should not use a dryer 11 months of the year (3 weeks of the year it's on fire, 1 week it's raining). i mean "should" here in the moral sense. if you get one, get an electric one and pay the utility company extra for green power.

uh what? This is assuming a lot about the amount of space people have to live in, their wardrobe, and other time commitments -- I'm sorry but I am not hanging socks and individual pairs of panties on a drying rack ...

I've never had a dryer

i'm not hanging my battletoads cosplay shit outside. i've invested too much time.

Seems like we have this conversation from time to time.

If I had the space and time to air-dry all the clothes, bedlinens, towels, and everything for four persons, multiple pets, and a not-very-efficient household through a harsh winter in 1,000 square feet I suspect I would be doing so. But I don't.

I wish rain water were beer and we had wings, also. But we don't.

it's fine to have, or not have, some of the common household appliances depending on one's preferences and living situation.

― call all destroyer, Friday, June 12, 2020 1:18 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't have a dishwasher or garbage disposal and do not feel a need for them.

call all otm

(fwiw I'm jus playin my parents have always had a dryer even tho I wonder why)

In 20 years we’ll be all nostalgic about having fridges. And food to put in them.

FWIW, in the same week my dryer stopped spinning (after I already repaired it once four weeks ago), washer kept leaving stink on clothes, and fridge started to give out (have been having problems since we moved in and have already had someone come and try to fix), so I am literally getting new all three the same day. New house problems

And for some reason the fridge space between the cabinets is the dimensions of almost no fridge on the market currently -- all are either 1-2 inches too tall or much too small. I bought an LG that was the closest to maximizing the space that I could but wastes like three inches of width.

yeah i think i bought four appliances in one trip the weekend after we closed. the fridge lasted another year and then i replaced that too before it reached a catastrophic stage.

Welcome to Australia, they just build the fridge holes any size they want, and then the fridges come from a mixture of overseas markets with different standards, I wouldn’t be worrying about 3 inches.

it's fine to have, or not have, some of the common household appliances depending on one's preferences and living situation.

― call all destroyer, Friday, June 12, 2020 1:18 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

i used to agree with this but the planet is quite literally dying and if you have the space then you should spend 3 minutes a week hanging your socks up.

valid exceptions, i'm sorry i don't make the rules: your dryer is electric and your electricity is renewable (e.g. Seattle). you need to do laundry every day (e.g. kids, job). it rains all the time (e.g. Seattle).

i will never forget a nominally liberal american telling me my house in the UK looked like "the barrio" because i line dried my clothes. ton of class stuff and a lot of "i'm sorry but this is how i prefer to live my life" in the way americans think about this.

or you were just talking to an asshole

other valid exception obviously: you don't have outside space.

no it was an american

in London i didn't have outdoor space for years but still didn't have a dryer (because virtually no one has a dryer in London). and it rains all the time. is it as easy as popping the clothes into a dryer? fuck no. is it fine? of course it's fine.

if you get one, get an electric one and pay the utility company extra for green power.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 22 October 2020 4:23 AM

hold up, there are non electric dryers?

It might be regional within the US but most dryers here are natural gas in my experience. It’s cheaper to run in $ but more carbon (depending on how you’re electricity is generated potentially quite a lot more).

To be clear: all of them use electricity to turn the fan. A gas dryer uses gas for heat.

I presume an "electric dryer" here means one that also uses an electric heating element.

I’ve never lived anywhere that had a gas dryer

FWIW, in justifying my appliance purchases I (1) have little kids and (2) live in a place where it is not infrequently humid enough for clothes to take multiple days to dry.

also I do plan to add solar once I replace my roof in a couple years

i'm a dryer nazi but i should be honest that it's not actually a huge deal in terms of the average american's carbon footprint (0.2%!). it's a bigger fraction (1 or 2%) of your footprint if you live in a city and don't fly very often. but still, it's not the end of the world.

narrator: it was the end of the world.

this is a great todo list for a new homeowner imo (it works for renters too, but most of it makes more sense if you own a single family home):

https://erikareinhardt.com/personal-climate-action

I'm also pretty intense about keeping the thermostat low, turning off lights, etc.

My dryer died and I got a collapsible drying rack - even indoors everything dries quicker than I expected. Sheets are a bit of a nightmare, though.

xp to self there's some magical thinking about electric cars in there, but otherwise its solid