So anyway, while I don’t believe Wayne’s analysis of what is more efficient/inexpensive in the case of the iron vs. I understand some people don’t care about their carbon footprint or if their energy bill is a little higher, but seeing how this is a site about being frugal, I think it’s worth a mention that my wife and I are now only paying a fifth of what we did a few years ago for our energy bill since we started really studying our energy usage and seeing what we could cut out or replace with alternatives. No one is saying you “shouldn’t use” any of these appliances, especially because some of them don’t have greener alternatives yet (you could save a little bit of energy by using a portable garment steamer instead of an iron, but not much), but it couldn’t hurt to be a little bit more aware of the actual energy use of your appliances and what the alternatives are. Which do you think is more “worth it?” And while it is true that microwaves range between 7W, they are usually also only used for a fraction of the time of a hair dryer or an iron (I don’t know if you know anyone with an office job, but it actually does take me a little less than an hour to iron two weeks worth of work shirts) and are also much more efficient than their counterparts– the stovetop and the oven (unless of course you wanted to use a sun oven or a compact jet-type stove like the bioLite!)– because it takes so much less time to cook in a microwave. Most people actually do recognize a hair dryer as a high-energy appliance… in fact, in the time it would time my wife to dry her hair (~15 minutes), she would have used enough energy to power the computer I’m using to write this comment for six whole hours. I don’t agree with Wayne about the laminating machine saving money or time over the iron, but I just wanted to mention that your comparison of irons to hair dryers and microwaves doesn’t really make much sense, as they are all used for different purposes and for different amounts of time.

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