The Naked Picnic in Your Living Room is about to Start

10-13-08

An idea to save money. It's simple. You did it when you were a kid without any fear until probably age 4 or whenever children start to notice what other people are wearing. This idea takes not too much effort on your part. It is a lazy person's dream: each day will be easier as you won't have to decide what to wear in the morning! So you can save your personal energy while you are saving money. Ready?

Shed your clothes! Get out the birthday suit! That's right go naked!

Each outfit you wear requires energy to clean it, dry it, and let's add in the soap. Plus the wear and tear on your clothes.

Your savings? Lots over time! Especially if you can make a habit of nakedness. To figure out the actual cost in electric energy to clean your outfit, you need to take into account a number of variables, because the cost of each load of laundry depends on how many clothes were washed at the same time. At the laundromat you might pay $1.25 to wash a load, and perhaps another $1.00 to dry it. Lets say you washed 4 pairs of jeans, 4 shirts, and a batch of 8 socks. A simple sock, shirt, and jean combo costs 51.25 cents. So we can add in the soap as well, if you buy it at the Laundromat its maybe 50 cents, however, if you go all herbal supermod healthfood store laundrey soap you are paying 30% or maybe even more in your soap charges. So cleaning each outfit here in our example is going to be 61.25 cents. So if you can go naked two days a week, you can save yourself $1.23 a week, which adds up to be $63.96 a year.

Another way to look on it is the wear and tear on the clothes you currently own will decline as well. Back to the Jeans and Shirts and Socks. If you can go naked two days a week, you will find your clothes will last 28% longer, because the use will decline 28% based on not being in use two/sevenths of the week.

For those who own washers and dryers and do laundry at home, you will also see a decline in your electric and water bills.

Plus, you will also be able to save a lot of money on gas as well, as those two days when you are going naked, you probably won't want to get into your car to drive anywhere, and you are much more likely to not go out to eat either, since you won't really be meeting the dress code at most restaurants, except those inside nudist colonies.

Note: For more information on the energy issues in clothes washing try a quick visit to Appropedia, where they have written up a great discussion of the real costs of washing and drying clothes.