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Yeah, that kind of thing makes me think 'why do they have six refrigerators?' or 'is the electric dryer running literally 24/7?'.

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Three chest freezers, one fridge freezer, dryer goes five to six times a day, three heat pumps and two radiant electric heaters.

So you live an unbelievably excessive existence.

No, I don't think so. I just want to keep my family warm and in clean clothes.

We do need to get down to less freezers but we have some home kill that we need to get through first.

How big is your family and how big is your house? Your situation is so far from anything that I've experienced in my life that I cannot even imagine it. How can you use a dryer that many times per day? Do you even need to use a dryer? Can't you air dry things?

I normally don't stay in places with a dryer and just let things air dry. If you're running heating/ac, they normally lower humidity so things dry really fast anyway.

2 adults, 2 infants. 110 Sqr metres.

6 a day is on the high side. It's probably an overestimate.

When there are no new borns we might dry 3 loads a week.

But the house is a work in progress. The curtains blow on a windy day.

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