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Nice yard

What is the thing sticking up in the middle of the lawn?
I am assuming the gate on your deck is for the dogs?
 
I began hanging clothes on the line last spring and intend to do so again this year. Bed linens smell so good fresh off the line, not to mention the tremendous energy savings.

Unfortunately, we had a late-season snowstorm this weekend, so I won't be going near the clothesline til next weekend.

Thanks for all the flapping-on-the-line photos, guys!
 
My grandmother still has her rotary closthesline and she lives about 20 minutes from me in Virginia. They are nice, but it seems to have rusted in one place. It used to turn. Oh well.
 
I envy you guys

with yards/gardens.

I don't have access to the rear yard, and if I hung my clothes out in the front yard, they would "walk" off. Especially the nicer bath towels.

I am seriously thinking of getting one or two of the folding indoor drying racks, however, and.......enjoying that "stiff as a board" feeling!

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
I used to LOVE the feel and smell of sheets fresh off the line, but I'm not allowed to do that here. Maybe, just maybe, once the house is officially ours (possibly late this coming week?) I'll get a little say in.... {whap!} OUCH!

What was I thinking? The dryer it is!

Chuck
p.s.- Rich isn't home, and didn't really slap me, but he might of if he'd been here! :-)
 
Here's my stuff flappin'

Queen size bedsheets (pale lime green if you can't tell) plus mattress pad. I hang it all, fitted with flat, it's all GOOD!

It's on a double-pulley 40' cable line stretching from a post at the side porch to a light column by the garage. Earlier in the day I dried three pairs of jeans, and aired the bedspread and cat blanket (they prefer the texture of the blanket).

It's actually a relatively windless day. On other days, the winds are so strong as to wrap the sheets around both lines, in which case I have to use a pole to unwrap them so I can reel them in. But it works, and the wind seems to help reduce wrinkles and induce softness.

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Well, here in Florida (At least for me) the line drying season is coming to an end. The summers here are too hot and too humid to hang stuff out. I mean you can but you don't get that "fresh crispness" like you do here in the winter time which is like your spring days up north. Dryer got a real work-out today with six loads.
 
The very basic idea in clothes line hanging I was tought in home echonmics at school was that tops should be hung by their bottoms and bottoms are to be hung by their tops.I noticed some jeans were upside down as well as some tank top shirts.Didn't you girls go to home ec in school?????????????????Did you pass???????????---LOL
 
Bill

I did not use that box of Cheer. I got it today from a neighbor who is moving into assisted living. The box was never opened.

I used Kirland detergent with a bit of phospahtes to do the sheets today in the vintage Maytag.
 
Thank you Steve. I am glad to see that you are still using phosphates and a name brand detergent. Have you tried
Viva? I am sure you can get it at a bodega on Long Island.

Ross
 
The weather has been sh@#$y here the last 2 Friday's, so I haven't been able to hang laundry out, so I'm jealous of y'all. Nothing reminds me of childhood more than slipping in between line-dried bedsheets at night. Steve, Viva's smell isn't that residual if laundry is hung out to dry, you'll be surprised.
 

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