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My in-laws who lived in the suburbs of Sacramento had a clothes line and no dryer. That was part of the routine when we stayed with them up until they passed in 2012. Of course, most of the time, it was in the Summer so there were hot dry days. I think in the Winter, MIL had laundry racks around the bathroom. UGH.
My parents didn't get a dryer until we got rid of the full-time maid in mid sixties and doing laundry in the evening and hanging clothes out over night. The illegal aliens would come over in the middle of the night and steal the clothes and take them back across the river. NOTE: do not lecture me about the illegal immigration problem, I have LIVED with it.
A dryer was the first thing my wife and I bought when we got married. With both working, it just made sense.
Grandmothers had wringer washers but I was never around when they used them.
It's funny how what used to be considered drudgery is now a perk - at least to me. My grandmother didn't have a dryer and we always hung out clothes, though come to think of it, I never really considered it to be onerous - i think I probably always got some satisfaction out of it.
When my kids were in school and I was working full time, I didn't have the TIME to hang laundry outside, so I didn't. When my nest emptied, and I quit working full time, I rediscovered the joy.
I'm doing laundry today and all but the towels are going right out on that line - some is already out there. The sun is shining so brightly and I've got all the pillows and mattress pads and all that out there too and will leave them to soak up that sun all day long. I just love it. I love the natural disinfectant too. There's something peaceful to me to be outside, hanging clean cool laundry out in a leisurely way, then when the evening comes going back out there and bringing that scent of sun and summer back inside on those crisp, dry clothes.
Y’all have got me to thinking. I have a rectangular area behind my garage that would be perfect for a clothesline. Nobody would see it, and it could stay up without affecting the looks of the main yard. Hmmm.
I wouldn’t hang the permanent press clothing or towels, but it seems like I would use the heck out of it for bedding. I’ve been draping stuff like that over the patio furniture.
Y’all have got me to thinking. I have a rectangular area behind my garage that would be perfect for a clothesline. Nobody would see it, and it could stay up without affecting the looks of the main yard. Hmmm.
I wouldn’t hang the permanent press clothing or towels, but it seems like I would use the heck out of it for bedding. I’ve been draping stuff like that over the patio furniture.
LOL that's why I did the whole retractable clothesline thing - I was tired of draping everything over all my patio furniture!
I hang clothes out all the time. I actually like my towels to be a bit rough since they help with a bit of exfoliation when drying off.
Repped you!
I think they absorb water better too. I stayed at a hotel once that had probably the softest towels I'd ever felt but they were also so soft they were slimy and just smeared water around. It was for work so next time we stayed there I brought my own towels and told them about it!
If we hang out the wash here in Pittsburg NH in October, it will stiffen and stay that way until Mid April when it thaws and it will still be wet.
When I went to where you live, they said there are two seasons. Winter and black fly. Something like that, lol. You're pretty far north!
Where I am now, it's an apartment but there IS a balcony. We're not supposed to hang things out and I actually agree that in an apartment complex, it would look messy to see clothing hanging on the balconies, but, being upstairs, I can still air out a pillow, dog bed, comforters, a few towels. Not on a line but over the chairs. It's so good to know that they are really clean. Clean from the sunlight--sanitized. I do have a drying rack that I have to put up inside. At least it's better than the silly dryer.
Y’all have got me to thinking. I have a rectangular area behind my garage that would be perfect for a clothesline. Nobody would see it, and it could stay up without affecting the looks of the main yard. Hmmm.
I wouldn’t hang the permanent press clothing or towels, but it seems like I would use the heck out of it for bedding. I’ve been draping stuff like that over the patio furniture.
I love to see a nice big washing flying in the breeze on a rope.. and dont find it intrusive at all... I saw an idea on a farm in Ireland where someone had built a platform on big rubber wheels or castors.. then posts with a bar and hooks for the ropes.. five or six ropes went across.. and the washing could be moved easily to follow the sun or when it rained it could be taken into the garage..
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