A frugal life is an easy life!

Looking out of the window in October, it is dull, cloudy and windy. Not much opportunity to be frugal and thrifty there then?
Oh yes there is...

Bang in a one or two loads of washing and get it out on the line to dry.
If it rains then it rains and you will have to use the dryer or your radiators, as you would have anyway, but if it stays dry or only drys your clothes till they are damp, then it is indeed a frugal saving!

Each dryer load, (even if you have an AAA rated energy saving top of the range dryer) costs you around 80p per load, if you put a load in straight from the washing machine.
Our house isn't especially big on washing loads, so I took a count one week.
I discovered that we do 8-9 loads of washing per week, sometimes more.

If I dry just 6 loads on the line in a dull, windy October, then I have saved my household £2.40 - this adds up to £9.60 saving per month and a whopping saving of £124.80 over the course of a year!
I am only counting for drying 6 out of 8-9 washing loads on the line outside. In summer I should be able to dry all 9 loads outside, increasing the saving even more.

Sounds obvious? Of course it does, yet on our part of the street of 20 houses, only three houses, put their washing out to dry!
On our street alone, if the other 17 houses, all had 8 loads of washing per week, those using a dryer to dry their washing would be paying the electricity companies an extra £2,121.60 - WOW!
Imagine that on a town scale... it is a staggering amount of money the electricity businesses are making off the back of householders. Electricity companies are businesses that exist in our homes to take our money off us.

By being organised and taking five minutes of effort per load of washing, I have beaten our electricity company!
With just this one single saving made, I have got a free TV license for the year and still left me with change in my pocket!