I live in a country where seing clothesline and pulleys, all the way along city streets from balconies and windows was and still is (even if less now) as normal as seeing a traffic lamp at a crossroad (costs of electric energy is high and no gas dryers availabe until recent years)....
Of course drying in the dryer is more convenient, why have to deal with the drudgery of hanging laundry if you have a dryer???
I can understand that in a country where dryers made their enter such early and where cost of running them is so low, and because of that are entered to be part of laundry chores job almost as a basic laundry equipment that 80% if not 90% of people own and use, there could be such a view about clotheslines from some people....
So that is why in USA sometimes clotheslines are associated to, poverty, slums etc.... because of that reasoning, some people finds them unsighty because associate them to poverty...don't get me wrong, this reasoning it's wrong simply because it lacks in a simple concept comprehension there could be other reasons going over the simply "I'm poor I cannot run/ I don't own a dryer" matter..... that would not make of a whole neigborhood poor also!!
I've herad many neighborhood associations bans them becuase they're supposed to drop the value of house in those neigborhoods.... theory denied more than once...
There're could be many reasons why one hangs laundry.....
One is simply that there're people enjoying hanging laundry (some people find it relaxing)....
Others just do that for global warming theory beliefs...
But even if it were did for money issue for what reasons it should drop property value then???
I think everyone should have the right to dry his own laundry as he prefer in his own property!
We're not talking about sunbathing naked! It's laundry! What disturbing is in that?
Also, I will never understand people being ashamed to hang out underpants and such!
Every summer I see tons of underpants of my neigbors hanging from their balconies, I'm not talking about <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">beggars</span><span>, or women</span> <span class="hps">of dubious morality.... but even class women simply hanging their bras or tangas out with no reason to be ashamed for that....
It's underpants, we all wear it, we wash it and so we will hang it!
So unless you hang some sorts of weird stuff like sex toys stuff I don't see why one should be ashamed!
I think anyway that a simple principle reason!</span></span>
<span class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">Everyone should be allowed to do anything he wants in his own property unless it gives damages to others and clothesline of course DO NOT!
Cheers</span></span>
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[this post was last edited: 2/19/2013-17:59]
