For the first few years of my life, my folks had neither electric or running water.
My mum up until her demise last Autumn dried everything traditional methods (lines, racks, over radiators). She broke her hip tripping over some damn thing in the garden and that helped in her decline. Fortunately my Dad took on the offer of a tumble drier and has adapted well. My take is it costs a bit more but I would rather have him around for more years than inherit a few more quid. That generation did without for so long that it became a lifestyle choice.
As an aside, when they moved into a rented house in 1956 it only had a range for cooking (coal or log fired). I remember my dads work clothes being dried in the oven. My mum set her sights on an electric cooker and the agent drove 40 miles to tell her she didn't need one as the house had a perfectly good range. (we aren't talking AGA but something primitive- swivel for boiling a kettle for example.) She dug her heels in (she had spent the first six years of married life cooking on one primus) and the agent went off in a right huff as he had to get an electrician in to wire a point. It wasn't long before the other ten houses "followed suit"!
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