Clotheslines

[oliger]

I have a clothesline between my house and the garage. There is a large hook next to the back door, and a large hook on the side of the garage. There is a pulley clothesline between the two. Besides the general fresh smell of line dried laundry, it is a necessity for me. I have a waterbed that uses California king sheets. Never in a million years would that dry in the dryer.

 

[ea56]

I’ve been drying Cal King sheets in a dryer since 1982 with no problems.  Granted they smell nicer dried in the sunshine, but any regular size dryer can dry a set of Cal King sheets.

 

Eddie

 

[foraloysius]

Bed linens today.

 

[ozzie908]

@Louis

That looks like a lovely spot to have breakfast! Such a wonderful view.

 

[foraloysius]

@austin

More like lunch and dinner. The balcony is facing south, but at breakfast time it can still be a bit chilly there. However on warm days it's nice to sit there early in the morning.

 

[yogitunes]

what you may or may not know about washing/drying of Waterbed sheets compared to standard bedding, is with WaterBed sheets, the top and bottom are attached...

I was fortunate to find sets that allowed you to separate them for laundering, just basically big buttons along the bottom...later I learned to separate other sets and add my own buttons...just made them a lot easier to manage

 

[ea56]

Martin

I never heard of waterbed sheets with the top and bottom sheets attached, you learn something new everyday.  I owned a waterbed in the mid 70’s for about 2 years.  It was double be size and then I just threw a flat double sheet on top of the waterbed mattress tucked it in all around the sides and the weight of the water held it in place, ditto for the the top sheet, but I just tucked that in at the bottom.

 

Now that I’ve learned this new bit of info I can understand why line drying these sheets would be better.

Eddie

 

[foraloysius]

I had a waterbed until 3 years ago. No attached sheets but I had fitted sheets to cover the whole waterbed and a regular duvet with cover on it.

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

Clothes lines are forbidden here. We have large terraces and quite honestly there is nothing so unsightly as laundry hanging from every terrace. There is always one who tries to get away with it but they're always caught. The apartments came with a rack in the bathroom which were quite small, I guess for unmentionables. The COOP complex wanted you to do your laundry downstairs in the laundry room. For drying I use a folding drying rack and of course the Maytag dryer.

 

[wayupnorth]

I FINALLY was able to hang out today for the first time this year and just about froze my fingers. This will probably be the last time for a while as a major snowstorm is predicted to hit Thursday and Friday with a foot or more of cement. Some spring we are having.

 

[mickeyd]

Freddie, you'll be sorry you asked ~ LOL!

Because, after sex, --either alone or with others-- and playing with washing machines, hanging out laundry is my most favorite thing in the world, and I do it all year round. I have a million pics of my obsession. Here are too many. Thanks for the opportunity. Hope you like 'em!

The first few are of napkins collected over the years, dirtied at a huge family party last summer, around 65 napkins; the side lawn photos were shot during Winter where the sun is farthest west and beyond the deck. Many seasons, many machines. No snowy clothesline pics available now. Regrets.

 

[gizmo]

spoiled for choice

we don't own a clothes dryer but we have two clotheslines - one beside the house and an under cover one in the greenhouse. The greenhouse one is fantastic for drying in wet weather. I often go out to hang up washing and come back inside with a few veges...

 

[kenmoreguy89]

So wonderful Michael and it must be beautiful to do laundry outside... with your machines.
I'm having this luck also.
Now that I live in the country in our mansion I have plenty of space to do laundry outside in the Summer and have 4-5 machines running, beside mosquitoes at around 19:00 it is so great and I can sunbathe having lots of cooling shooters while doing what for me also after sex and food I like most doing laundry

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Chris, they must dry in a heartbeat inside there

 

[justjunque]

Love the pictures!
My mom always hung laundry out when weather permitted, but also had a dryer.
I have wonderful childhood memories of laundry days!
She had both pulley lines between the house and a telephone pole in the back yard, as well as a couple of different styles of free-standing ones over the years.
We don't have them at our house now, although I from time to time entertain the idea of putting some up.
I do have allergies though, and I have read that I should therefore never hang laundry outside.

Barry

 

[mrsalvo]

Sun was out today, very breezy and unseasonably cool. Perfect day to get laundry caught up. Hung most everything out except mattress cover, ran out of space on the clothesline. I love the clean smell on everything and the sun bleaches the whites pretty good.
Learned a hard lesson this go round, had bought some Sun Triple Clean detergent (lower shelf) to try on sheets and what I thought would be lightly soiled garments. Yeah, I won't be making that mistake again. The term "flavored water" pretty much sums it up. I usually use All Free & Clear.

Barry

 

[eurekastar]

Growing up, a clothes line is the only way I knew clothes could get dry.  I guess I was unaware that there were tumble dryers.  But living in west Texas, there was always plenty of sun, wind, and low humidity to get clothes quickly dried!

 

 

[foraloysius]

Dazzling white polo shirts today.

 

[mrsalvo]

Found this on a support group site I belong to. Yes, there were rules back in the day. LOL. Well, I guess there was anyway.
My grandmother's rules were: Get the laundry done EARLY in the day and get them out on the line. If the sun is shining, even if it's cold, they will dry. Didn't bother to hid the unmentionables! LOL. Anyone's thoughts?

Barry

 

[ea56]

Barry,

your grandma’s rules for hanging out the laundry is exactly how I always hung out the laundry.  Especially using only one clothes pin between items hung next to each other.  I always took pride in how neatly I could hang my laundry.  Some of the hap hazard order of clothes hanging on clotheslines I’ve seen just make my OCD go into overdrive. LOL

 

Thanks for sharing this.

 

Eddie