The Fight To Make Clothes Lines Legal!
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westingman123
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Hope this debate doesn't make it to the Midwest, I may hurt someone...
Hope this debate doesn't make it to the Midwest, I may hurt someone...
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Anyone thinks clean clothes on a line are unsightly or lower property values and silly things like that are seriously deranged people who should be hanging their own laundry because clearly they don't have enough to do.
The moral implications of this decision are significant - ma
To hang out those clothing items that caress, cradle and rub our most private and erogenous zones in full public view, will cause the decline of civilization as we know it. Stealthily our minds will be subverted by the mere imagery of underwear pornography. Exposing innocent children and weak adults to this surreptitious profligacy will have social implications for generations to come. Homosexualtiy in the armed forces will pale in comparison to our communities being exposed to erotic fabrics, shapes and images depicted on these vile and sinful garments. Dryers were given to us by the good lord to protect our modesty and make us civilized. Just look to all those countries where they hang out their unmentionables in full public view - their real estate values have stagnated over the last 30 years, they ar either in military conflict with the United States or they've legalized homosexual marriage.
This is belzebub at work!
Pray to stop this madness!!!!
rapunzel
To hang out those clothing items that caress, cradle and rub our most private and erogenous zones in full public view, will cause the decline of civilization as we know it. Stealthily our minds will be subverted by the mere imagery of underwear pornography. Exposing innocent children and weak adults to this surreptitious profligacy will have social implications for generations to come. Homosexualtiy in the armed forces will pale in comparison to our communities being exposed to erotic fabrics, shapes and images depicted on these vile and sinful garments. Dryers were given to us by the good lord to protect our modesty and make us civilized. Just look to all those countries where they hang out their unmentionables in full public view - their real estate values have stagnated over the last 30 years, they ar either in military conflict with the United States or they've legalized homosexual marriage.
This is belzebub at work!
Pray to stop this madness!!!!
rapunzel
Not only in the USA...
When I rented my apartment in the 1980's I had to sign a contract in which was stated that I was not allowed to dry clothes outside. When I said that I found this ridiculous the lady who gave me the paper smiled at me and said that this rule was never enforced. It was only there to avoid problems in case of serious nuisance so it is up to my neighbours to decide whether or not I can dry clothes outside.
When I rented my apartment in the 1980's I had to sign a contract in which was stated that I was not allowed to dry clothes outside. When I said that I found this ridiculous the lady who gave me the paper smiled at me and said that this rule was never enforced. It was only there to avoid problems in case of serious nuisance so it is up to my neighbours to decide whether or not I can dry clothes outside.
toggleswitch2
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You can't legislate to avoid lack of taste/style/class/s
There are clotheslines, and there are clotheslines.
Lovely are the two or three parallel lines on pulleys mounted at shoulder level or just above.
But you have not lived until you have seen clothes lines New-York-City style.
Clothes laid to rest over a rusting, dirty fire-escape railings.
Clothes lines and or hangers just inside windows.
Clothes in FRONT yards/gardens running haphazardly in all directions and supported by 2x4s. Even more appealing when the neighbor is drying fish on her clothes lines. Oh yes I have seen this.
Done right, not so bad.
Done wrong, extremely unaesthetic.
My grandmother was an odd immigrant. She preferred the dryer (at the laundromat, she never had one)in that she believed it to be cleaner than hanging clothes in a soot-laden alley, and one with birds that had good aim, to boot. Grandpa believed that even slightly damp, line-dried clothes would give one their death of cold.
Still, I laugh when I see clothing drying on racks in kitchens among super-stinky spices and oil and fried foods.
Or in bathrooms- i've seen it happen that clothing there took on odors of certain toilet functions. UGH!
There is definitely a WAY to line dry and a way NOT to line dry...........
There are clotheslines, and there are clotheslines.
Lovely are the two or three parallel lines on pulleys mounted at shoulder level or just above.
But you have not lived until you have seen clothes lines New-York-City style.
Clothes laid to rest over a rusting, dirty fire-escape railings.
Clothes lines and or hangers just inside windows.
Clothes in FRONT yards/gardens running haphazardly in all directions and supported by 2x4s. Even more appealing when the neighbor is drying fish on her clothes lines. Oh yes I have seen this.
Done right, not so bad.
Done wrong, extremely unaesthetic.
My grandmother was an odd immigrant. She preferred the dryer (at the laundromat, she never had one)in that she believed it to be cleaner than hanging clothes in a soot-laden alley, and one with birds that had good aim, to boot. Grandpa believed that even slightly damp, line-dried clothes would give one their death of cold.
Still, I laugh when I see clothing drying on racks in kitchens among super-stinky spices and oil and fried foods.
Or in bathrooms- i've seen it happen that clothing there took on odors of certain toilet functions. UGH!
There is definitely a WAY to line dry and a way NOT to line dry...........
toggleswitch2
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Try some outdoor lighting, instead.
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"Meanwhile, Anthony Johnson, the executive director of the Greenwich Housing Authority, said safety is an issue. “At night, it’s very dark over there. You can’t see anything,” he told the newspaper, referring to Ms. McDaniel’s complex. “If somebody’s running through there, they could really get clothes-lined, football clothes-lined. It wouldn’t be a pretty thing.”
Funny. I'd think of it as a security measure. If a thief or other criminal were running through the place (residents would hopefully "remember" the lines are there, and not go running through) and got decapitated due to their own stupidity, I don't think I'd exaclty mourn the loss.
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"Meanwhile, Anthony Johnson, the executive director of the Greenwich Housing Authority, said safety is an issue. “At night, it’s very dark over there. You can’t see anything,” he told the newspaper, referring to Ms. McDaniel’s complex. “If somebody’s running through there, they could really get clothes-lined, football clothes-lined. It wouldn’t be a pretty thing.”
Funny. I'd think of it as a security measure. If a thief or other criminal were running through the place (residents would hopefully "remember" the lines are there, and not go running through) and got decapitated due to their own stupidity, I don't think I'd exaclty mourn the loss.
Conflict Over Clotheslines in Greenwich
A tony Connecticut suburb an hour north of Manhattan has banned clotheslines from public housing, citing liability concerns. Some residents are irate.
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com
hoover1100
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You really do have to wonder...
No one sees clothes or linens as "unsightly" unless they are drying outside, the idea of people turing their noses up at line drying is just snobbery as far as I'm concearned.
I hang clothes on the line till it is full, then fill up every single other place where the clothes can be hung: off the fence, over railings, on hangers at the windows, over the tops of doors, anywhere. If anyone had the nerve to comment on this I would simply empty my wardrobe of its contents and fill my garden with clothes, until they backed down. No one is taking away my right to dry clothes!
Matt
No one sees clothes or linens as "unsightly" unless they are drying outside, the idea of people turing their noses up at line drying is just snobbery as far as I'm concearned.
I hang clothes on the line till it is full, then fill up every single other place where the clothes can be hung: off the fence, over railings, on hangers at the windows, over the tops of doors, anywhere. If anyone had the nerve to comment on this I would simply empty my wardrobe of its contents and fill my garden with clothes, until they backed down. No one is taking away my right to dry clothes!
Matt
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The few spoil it for the many.
I'd say the aim of most legislation against clothes-lines is to avoid the small percentage of peoople who make the place look like a turd-world refugee camp or a gypsy camp.
Snobbery, maybe.
Standards needed? Definitely.
If you don't stand up for something you'll stand for anything.
I persoanlly just don't like to see cluter and mess in the FRONT yard/garden or windows. The rear of the property is less of a concern to me.
I'd say the aim of most legislation against clothes-lines is to avoid the small percentage of peoople who make the place look like a turd-world refugee camp or a gypsy camp.
Snobbery, maybe.
Standards needed? Definitely.
If you don't stand up for something you'll stand for anything.
I persoanlly just don't like to see cluter and mess in the FRONT yard/garden or windows. The rear of the property is less of a concern to me.
toggleswitch2
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How's this for a gimmick to make you part with your money?
Don't tell anyone, but excessive humidity in one's home leads to the health danger of mold and mildew.
Don't tell anyone, but excessive humidity in one's home leads to the health danger of mold and mildew.
hoover1100
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Just hang your sausage or jerky on the line in the security
If that didn't sell me on the garage clothesline I don't know what would!
Matt
If that didn't sell me on the garage clothesline I don't know what would!
Matt
gmmcnair
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One of the reasons why....
....I moved into my old neighborhood with no HOA. If it's a nice day, I have my wringer washer set up, rinse tubs and stuff flapping in the breeze on the lines.
Esthetically unpleaseing, maybe, but I prefer that and my neighbor's junked car to some of the HOA crap.
....I moved into my old neighborhood with no HOA. If it's a nice day, I have my wringer washer set up, rinse tubs and stuff flapping in the breeze on the lines.
Esthetically unpleaseing, maybe, but I prefer that and my neighbor's junked car to some of the HOA crap.
mrb627
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Memories
I can still remember holding the clothespin bag while my Grandmother hung the washing on the line out back. This seemed such a strange thing to me as a child because we had an electric dryer.
While I don't know if I would have one or use it all the time, I wont stand in the way of any neighbor that wants to do something kind for our planet!
MRB
I can still remember holding the clothespin bag while my Grandmother hung the washing on the line out back. This seemed such a strange thing to me as a child because we had an electric dryer.
While I don't know if I would have one or use it all the time, I wont stand in the way of any neighbor that wants to do something kind for our planet!
MRB
You will seldom have a matched set, if you care about that sort of thing
My Mom would wear out 3 washers to 1 dryer. In the 70's she bought avocado kenmores on clearance, the green dryer worked 25 years with one service call for a belt. It still worked when she sold it. She would use it all year for Perma press clothing, but only in the winter for everything. On a fair winter day, she would still dry her sheets on the line. alr2903
My Mom would wear out 3 washers to 1 dryer. In the 70's she bought avocado kenmores on clearance, the green dryer worked 25 years with one service call for a belt. It still worked when she sold it. She would use it all year for Perma press clothing, but only in the winter for everything. On a fair winter day, she would still dry her sheets on the line. alr2903
