Has anyone in this thread mentioned Biokleen? I bought a 25 or maybe 50 lb bulk bag of powder detergent online for cheap many years ago and still probably have seventy years worth of detergent left. A regular load only uses 1 tbsp of powder detergent, it's supposed to be biodegradable. These days I do about 1-2 loads of laundry every two weeks. It seems I will be lugging around a heavy bag of powder laundry detergent wherever I go for the rest of my life.
Lately I have been tying lines between my window curtain rods and pull-up bar in my kitchen and dining room, turning on the ceiling fans, and line-drying indoors. The only thing I've noticed that I don't like about this method is that some of my clothes (in particular my cotton socks, boxers, and towels) seem very stiff when they dry. I worry that line drying may be making some of the fabrics my clothing is made of more brittle and likely to wear more quickly compared to drying them in a dryer. Maybe I should still be using the dryer for some things. My cotton/polyester shirts seem to dry fine on the line, it mostly seems like anything that's >95% cotton dries stiff. As much as people say using the dryer is hard on clothes, I wonder if line-drying is somehow harder on them particularly for cotton. Maybe if I was line-drying outside in a stiff breeze the cotton items wouldn't stiffen up as much when dry.