Flapping in the Breeze.

[toggleswitch]

Yes I've been influenced by a certan country boy in Connecticut............

It was time to pull out the retractable clothesline!

The rest of the whites went in the dryer, and these pieces shown got a bit of wind and sunshine. This cut drying time fromthe normal 80 minutes (thick scatter rug and "smalls") to 45 minutes.

The bottom sheets got the dryer, but the tops and the pillowcases got natural freshness. I figure if it goes up to my face it had better be clean and smell good......

The support pole was fabircated minutes ago. It was too big at first so I had a few inches removed.

 

[rpm]

why do the bottom sheets go in the dryer?

 

[toggleswitch]

*LOL*

Limited space (on the line) and number of clothespins, at the moment. I suppose my efficiency at hanging will improve again over time.........

It was too windy to properly share clothespins [left and right of two different items under one pin.]

 

[dirtybuck]

You're Missing Something...

Toggle, I see the laundry basket, but where is your bottle/box of your favorite laundry product to indicate you have a clean, fresh wash?

Bill

 

[dirtybuck]

And Furthermore...

I think you have a lovely yard! Very nice.

 

[toggleswitch]

Mother always said it's reputation and career suicide to have one's box photographed and posted all over the internet.

 

[toggleswitch]

Thank you Ross (Westyslantfront) in AZ for turning me on to

The holy trinity of laundry

POWDERED detergent
STPP- Soodium Tri-poly phosphate (notice the size of that larger container?
BLEACH, oxygen variety (burns skin ... rinse well!).

I've got the whitest whites and no "Brand X" detergents here!

 

[toggleswitch]

ww.TheChemistryStore.com

http://www.chemistrystore.com/sodium_tripolyphosphate.htm

 

[dirtybuck]

Well, Hell!

Your poor laundry basket would collapse from all that weight.

 

[toggleswitch]

Well yes my basket would need addtional support with all that substance/weight.

 

[gansky1]

You can't get that smell from any bottle!

You'll be wanting to make the clotheslines more permanent when you get used to the smell and just think of how much energy you can save in this economy spiraling out of control!

Here are my four loads for today - bedding will be out tomorrow A.M.

I chatted with my neighbor this morning as I was hanging things up...neighborhood gossip, kids, recipes - so very suburban!

 

[rpm]

Yes I see what you mean about the windy conditions and the improper pinning technique.
That one pillowcase took a slide.
Sure hope none of your neighbours see that, what will they think?
I like your plaid sheet/duvet cover.

 

[dirtybuck]

STTP

Waht does that do for your laundry? Do you add it in with the detergent and OxyClean? How much per load?

 

[toggleswitch]

No one can see my underwear from there.......

This is a corner property. What you see is a side yard with huge tall hedges between me and the side-street (which runs parallel the the side of the house shown)The front of the house is actually beyond that wooden fence.

 

[toggleswitch]

~What does that do for your laundry? Do you add it in with the detergent and OxyClean? How much per load?

Phosphates are a vital/crucial component of detergetns that help hold soils in suspension. Results when using them are trendously boosted.

Environemtnal concerns are due to the fertilizing effect on algae blooms in rivers and streams.

 

[toggleswitch]

Is there no justice?

What pisses me off (American English for "angers") is that there is every manner of posion, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide avaialable for one's lawn and garden and there are restrictions about simple laudnry additives that function chemically as FERTILZER being added to the environment.

Here on Long Island we get our drinking water from wells in the ground. Does the water not trcikle through and pick up the poisons? Does anyone not see the ridiculousness of this way of thinking?

Yes the cancer rates on Long Island are through-the-roof here as compared to neighboring NYC that gets its drinking water from the mountains upstate.

 

[rpm]

I don't like where this is going.
It scares me to think of Toggles underwear and then the talk about crucial components of detergents to hold soils in suspension

 

[vulcanchef]

forgive my ignorance but is the rotary clothesline not known of outside of Australia and New Zealand?

 

[toggleswitch]

Then don't think aobut my underwear! LOL

~Do you add it (STPP)in with the detergent and OxyClean? How much per load?
I do. I use about half a coffee scoop which appears to be about a tablespoon.

regarding the Rotary clothesline. Is that a Hills hoist or something? I havn't see too many here. Those that do have a clothesline in my area tend to have two pulleys. Perhaps we prefer to tug on it to get the job done.