Blue Mondays (British Edition)

If you're a fan of 'House Hunters International', then you've all seen them and raised an eyebrow.
Yes, our washing machine is in the kitchen -- haha!  And if you're wondering about the size, we can shove in a load about half the size that a traditional American washer holds.

Sometimes these machines can also dry the clothes, but they're usually crap (or so we've been told).  So, we air-dry all our clothes.  We worried at first about how the heck we were gonna dry a thousand socks?  Thankfully, our bathroom is equipped with a handy-dandy radiator/towel-warmer.  We haven't yet graduated to the outdoor clothesline like we see around most places here.  But maybe in the summer months, we'll hang our towels to warm in the sun.

Air-drying is more energy-efficient -- about 4% of a household's energy goes toward clothes drying.  So, I guess we've lowered our energy bill by about that much every month, too!

And isn't our boy Jimmy a great little model?  Well... I guess he's not actually that little!  ;-)