Email from one of the neighbors...

[FIHTies]

Originally Posted by Étienne

Are you seriously asking this on a clothes forum? I have plenty enough clothes that I wouldn't need to do my laundry more than twice a month if I wanted to, and I am pretty sure I am not alone here.

But when you did it it would be a massive load of laundry being done, so who cares if you wash 30 loads in 30 days or 30 loads in one day. You conserve nothing. She seems to indicate that she is cutting down on washes, which is ummm...weird.

 

[Journeyman]

Originally Posted by FIHTies

But when you did it it would be a massive load of laundry being done, so who cares if you wash 30 loads in 30 days or 30 loads in one day. You conserve nothing. She seems to indicate that she is cutting down on washes, which is ummm...weird.

+1 - that was my logic, although perhaps I needed to enunciate it more clearly.

 

[gdl203]

Good for her. Not sure I understand why she should be ridiculed.

 

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by FIHTies

But when you did it it would be a massive load of laundry being done, so who cares if you wash 30 loads in 30 days or 30 loads in one day.
I think there are some scale economies with bigger washer, but I am not a specialist.

Apart from that, what's so ridiculous about the email?

 

[unjung]

Originally Posted by Étienne

I think there are some scale economies with bigger washer, but I am not a specialist.

Apart from that, what's so ridiculous about the email?

The tone is a little odd, and I can see people being put off when a millionaire is talking about turning off a light to save a watt of energy, but I don't think there's anything wrong with looking for ways to reduce energy or water usage. She should request that LED lights be put in.

 

[Fuuma]

Wait you guys do laundry more than 1-2/month??? Weird.

 

[Piobaire]

The answer here is obvious. SHE only does laundy 1-2 x per month. Because she sends all but her thongs out to the cleaners.

Rain water irrigation. Law of unintended consequences. Where I live, the city passed an ordinance that all irrigation must be done with at least 50% rain water. Sounds great, huh? Yup.

So, a couple of years later? Everyone with commercial property has torn up their landscaping because the cost of compliance is too high. Coloured gravel ftw.

 

[HORNS]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

The answer here is obvious. SHE only does laundy 1-2 x per month. Because she sends all but her thongs out to the cleaners.

Rain water irrigation. Law of unintended consequences. Where I live, the city passed an ordinance that all irrigation must be done with at least 50% rain water. Sounds great, huh? Yup.

So, a couple of years later? Everyone with commercial property has torn up their landscaping because the cost of compliance is too high. Coloured gravel ftw.

LOL

 

[gdl203]

In that specific case, are we so sure this consequence was unintended?

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by gdl203

In that specific case, are we so sure this consequence was unintended?

Well, there was the article in the local rag, expressing the surprise of our illustrious city council over the situation. So I'm gonna guess "yup."

Almost as good as their puzzlement over how anti-big box ordinances shifted sales tax revenues from the city to the local environs.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Étienne

I think there are some scale economies with bigger washer, but I am not a specialist. Apart from that, what's so ridiculous about the email?
First, it is, I believe, against the law not to keep public stairwells and elevators well lit, for the reason that not doing so leads to accidents like the one mentioned. Second, either she thinks I am interested in the fact that she forces people in the buildings she owns to take short showers, that she collects rainwater and that she wears dirty clothes (I'm not), or, more likely, she wants to make rules for a co-op building limiting shower length and use of personal washing machines, and to encourage others to collect rain water in order to wash stuff. Either way, it is bizarre to me.

 

[thekunk07]

i am going to permalink to my business partner's condo's extranet. every comment is golden. had a 600 post thread about the lobby lighting wattage.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by iammatt

First, it is, I believe, against the law not to keep public stairwells and elevators well lit, for the reason that not doing so leads to accidents like the one mentioned. Second, either she thinks I am interested in the fact that she forces people in the buildings she owns to take short showers, that she collects rainwater and that she wears dirty clothes (I'm not), or, more likely, she wants to make rules for a co-op building limiting shower length and use of personal washing machines, and to encourage others to collect rain water in order to wash stuff. Either way, it is bizarre to me.

Is that what she meant? I thought that by "we... here" she meant her family. If she really forces other people to do like her, then yea she's nutty

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by gdl203

Is that what she meant? I thought that by "we... here" she meant her family. If she really forces other people to do like her, then yea she's nutty
She has rules at the buildings she owns about shower length. I see that isn't at all clear from the email.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by iammatt

She has rules at the buildings she owns about shower length. I see that isn't at all clear from the email.

How in the world does she enforce that?