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I was surprised to find that Berlin working-class life doesn't typically include luxuries such as an electric clothes dryer, as fundamental to US citizenship as pre-sliced cheese or cable TV. What one does instead is to take up half a room with a tin pot drying rack, which folds down only to leap up again and mock me as I unfurl it later the same day.

I ~~live with four people of varied ages~~ and ~~our laundry is a legitimate mini-job for tax purposes~~.

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I was surprised to find that Berlin working-class life doesn't typically include luxuries such as an electric clothes dryer. The washers, dryers and laundromats I have known were always beloved, but only more so in their absence.

~~Winter makes this whole deal all~~ the ~~more challenging since cold plus damp equals mildew~~; ~~heating a room is expensive~~; ~~the windows are drafty... and waah did I mention that winter~~ is ~~long cold and dark, best endured from behind~~ a ~~protective shield~~ of ~~fidgety little indoor projects~~.

The mischief one gets up to without a dryer strains the imagination. Strings, fans, hidden rooms; carting sodden rags; dry cleaning…

What follows is a story of one such adaptation.

== Pulleys: how does that work? ==

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-I was surprised to find that Berlin working-class life doesn't typically include luxuries such as an electric clothes dryer, as fundamental to US citizenship as pre-sliced cheese or cable TV.  What one does instead is to take up half a room with a tin pot drying rack, which folds down only to leap up again and mock me as I unfurl it later the same day.
-I live with four people of varied ages and our laundry is a legitimate mini-job for tax purposes.
+[[File:Final use.jpg|thumb|''by Adam Wight, 2024'']]
+I was surprised to find that Berlin working-class life doesn't typically include luxuries such as an electric clothes dryer.  The washers, dryers and laundromats I have known were always beloved, but only more so in their absence.
-Winter makes this whole deal all the more challenging since cold plus damp equals mildew; heating a room is expensive; the windows are drafty... and waah did I mention that winter is long cold and dark, best endured from behind a protective shield of fidgety little indoor projects.
+The mischief one gets up to without a dryer strains the imagination.  Strings, fans, hidden rooms; carting sodden rags; dry cleaning…
+What follows is a story of one such adaptation.
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 == Pulleys: how does that work? ==
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