dryer protocol

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I've always cleaned the dryer lint screen before each load, like the manufacturer says. In this apartment building's laundry room, I almost always find the screen already cleaned. People clean their own dryer lint.

Now this strikes me as socially responsible and morally upright. But I feel obliged to check beforehand anyway, because you never know, and if other people do too, well, it's consuming a bite extra of everyone's life to check before and clean after. Can I condone that? On the other hand, can I let concerns of efficiency disrupt this community of ethical behavior?

[Poll #24924]

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[beegle.livejournal.com]

I clean before with one exception: when I wash towels or something that I know'll leave a lot of lint, I clean after too. I usually find the lint traps dirty and it seems silly to clean twice. You can usually wash two loads without cleaning the trap, so not cleaning after doesn't screw the next person unless your laundry generates a lot of lint.

The laundry room on the other side of our building has a bunch of hand-scrawled notes bitching people out for not cleaning when they're done. I make a point of not cleaning afterwards there, and I actually go as far as not cleaning before if the traps aren't that bad (along with not cleaning after). Shrill people deserve a tweaking.