I was thinking about hanging the laundry out too. The snow is gone from around the clothesline. Fire up the ABC or Easy and do the wash. Love the way those sheets smell and feel from off of the line.
I hung laundry outside for the 1st time this year.
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gmmcnair
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I have had the perfect weekends for it....
...the last two weekends have been perfect for hanging out clothes to dry. Sadly, I spent both weekends doing other things. My refrigerator died, so I had to clear out all the spoiled food and ready everything for the new one. Then, I spent the following weekend getting food re-stocked and things back in place.
Maybe this weekend...
...the last two weekends have been perfect for hanging out clothes to dry. Sadly, I spent both weekends doing other things. My refrigerator died, so I had to clear out all the spoiled food and ready everything for the new one. Then, I spent the following weekend getting food re-stocked and things back in place.
Maybe this weekend...
It's an astounding 65 degrees here on the prairie of southwestern Minnesota, with 68-70 predicted for Thursday. I may have to clean off clothes lines and hang out a load of sheets. Love the scent of line-dried bed linens!
I remember my grandmother and mother use to always hang laundry outside. There's something about drying things out in the sun and hopefully a breeze that does something to your freshly washed items that you just can't help loving.
I even questioned my grandmother once about the cold weather hanging and she always said if you get out first thing in the morning and the sun is out and take it down before the sun starts to set that the laundry would dry.
It's just sad now that so many housing developments across the country have restrictions in place in their communities about having clotheslines outside and forcing people to use dryers. If they only realized what the true experience of drying things in the sun are...maybe they'd have second thoughts about it. Besides the "being green" aspect of it and the savings it provides to people.
Last time I checked you didn't pay for using sunshine.
I even questioned my grandmother once about the cold weather hanging and she always said if you get out first thing in the morning and the sun is out and take it down before the sun starts to set that the laundry would dry.
It's just sad now that so many housing developments across the country have restrictions in place in their communities about having clotheslines outside and forcing people to use dryers. If they only realized what the true experience of drying things in the sun are...maybe they'd have second thoughts about it. Besides the "being green" aspect of it and the savings it provides to people.
Last time I checked you didn't pay for using sunshine.
polkanut
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I did line dry our winter flannel sheets & pillowcases this past Friday (3/13), and also washed and line dried our summer sheets to freshen them up from having been in storage all winter. Our underclothes also went out on the line in between the bedding. Nothing like putting on a line dried t-shirt and being able to catch a whiff of that scent all day long. Sorry, I forgot to take pics though.
lordkenmore
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>I did line dry our winter flannel sheets & pillowcases this past Friday (3/13), and also washed and line dried our summer sheets to freshen them up from having been in storage all winter.
Proof that Friday the 13th isn't a totally unlucky day!
Proof that Friday the 13th isn't a totally unlucky day!
lordkenmore
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I've been line drying outside a lot recently, thanks to a dryer that went to the Great Big Laundry Room in the sky. I'm guessing this must be the earliest I've dried normal laundry on the lines. It does not work as well as it does in summer--it seems like getting the laundry out fairly early only dries at best to "almost dry" by the end of the day. Still, that means less drying time on the wood rack inside. Perhaps if I had a washer with a better spin, or else a good spin dryer, things would dry completely outside during the day.
twintubdexter
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Normal temps should be 70's
It's been in the low 90's. If I had a clothes line the temperature knob would be on Cottons & Linens. I use the air conditioning in the late afternoon which = $$$. This is way too hot for mid-March. I'm scared of what's to come.
It's been in the low 90's. If I had a clothes line the temperature knob would be on Cottons & Linens. I use the air conditioning in the late afternoon which = $$$. This is way too hot for mid-March. I'm scared of what's to come.
I would gladly send this snow and cold to you Joe, if you could send some of the warmer temps this way. I have not been able to get to my clothesline since early October and after last nights snowstorm, we are over 130" here and forcasted to be down to 0 yet again tonight.
I hung out sheets, pillow cases, underwear, socks, and towels today. All of this was washed in my 1955 ABC wringer machine with some borax and a Tide pod.
Everything tried quickly and the sheets smell sooo good.
Everything tried quickly and the sheets smell sooo good.
dustin92
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Today was a near perfect day for line drying, started around 60, ended up at 73 with a slight breeze, mostly sunny. I washed 3 loads (2 of colors, with Persil liquid, 1 of whites with Persil Power Pearls, All 3 with Snuggle Orchid and Vanilla softener) got them all hung up, and they were almost dry, when a neighbor the next street over decided there was no better time to burn a pile of putrid trash. Raced to get them in a basket and inside, and luckily they still smelled good. How dare they burn trash when I'm drying clothes??? I finished them off in the dryer and everything came out great. Also did a small load of dish towels and cloths, and some cleaning rags, but those went in the dryer. Next will be sheets while I can hang them out without my allergies killing me.
