{"id":17284,"date":"2021-04-19T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/?post_type=change&#038;p=17284"},"modified":"2021-07-14T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T00:53:21","slug":"change54-lighten-your-load","status":"publish","type":"change","link":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/change\/change54-lighten-your-load\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighten your&nbsp;load"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Embrace the in-between of dirty and clean.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love doing laundry? Didn\u2019t think so. But there might be a way for you to do less, saving you effort <em>and<\/em> electricity. It involves doing a lil something called the \u2018sniff test\u2019. Hear us out\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve long been conditioned to throw our clothes straight into the hamper at the end of the day. But\u2026 do we always need to? Say you only wore your outfit around the house or to the office on a cool day, where you spent the day sitting \u2013 not doing anything sweaty or anything that involved getting dirty. Instead of tossing it straight in with the dirty pile, check your gear for stains, give \u2018em a little sniff, and if they pass on both scores, why not give them a second wear?\u00a0 If they look and smell clean, why not? <em>Who\u2019s gonna know?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use less water<\/li>\n<li>Use less electricity<\/li>\n<li>Less washing means fewer times you forget to bring the washing in before it rains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the sniff test is inconclusive or you\u2019ve got a cold and can\u2019t smell very well, err on the side of \u2018wash\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>And it goes without saying that undies and workout gear are always single-wear. ALWAYS.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for other ways to save on energy and gas? Find out how you could save with Origin Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love doing laundry? Didn\u2019t think so. But there might be a way for you to do less, saving you effort and&nbsp;electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17378,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-17284","change","type-change","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-energy-efficiency"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/change"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}