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Make Your Own Dryer Sheets

7th February, 2012 - Posted by katherine - No Comments

With this green tip you can use old clothes, preferably made of a thick fabric that will absorb a lot of liquid (think flannel PJs) cut into dryer sheet size.  After being soaked in some eco-friendly fabric softener (like Seventh Generation) you have reusable dryer sheets, rather than throwing away a dryer sheet every time you do a load of laundry.  I haven’t tried this yet but am going to try it out this weekend.  I got the idea from a website called Northern Cheapskate, but if you Google ”DIY dryer sheets” you’ll find lots of ideas for greener alternatives to disposable dryer sheets.   The Northern Cheapskate website points out that you save money too using this method (the author estimates she saves about 11 cents a load!)