Tips for line drying

[autowasherfreak]

I thought some of us here might be interested in this.

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/8-tips-for-drying-clothes-on-the-clothesline.html

 

[tomturbomatic]

Sorry, I developed more skills than I ever wanted while trying to convince my mom to accept a dryer.

 

[frigilux]

I converted to line-drying during the summer about 4 years ago. Unfortunately, my weekday work schedule prohibits hanging loads out until it's too late in the day for them to dry. And weekends I've either been gone or there's been rain. I've only hung out four loads so far. Usually I'd have hung out at least 20 by this time.

 

[sudsmaster]

I didn't see anything in there that I haven't already figured out (in some cases, better, such as using vinyl coated steel braided cable for a clothesline). Except for using the old milk jug as a clothespin bin. I'll have to try that one.

 

[polkanut]

A rule of thumb for line drying......

Hang tops by their bottoms, and bottoms by their tops.

 

[gmmcnair]

Interesting article, but I disagree with running an extra spin cycle. It won't remove THAT much more water.

I tend to use a slower spin on my outdoor dried stuff. It makes for fewer wrinkles that way.

 

[bleacho]

its about time..

that line drying is coming back. i live in new york. i havent seen line drying out in anyones backyard in years... theres nothing like line dried.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Do you remember Paul Simon's song titled something like In My Little Town? It had a line I liked that spoke of life in industrial towns so long ago. It went,
"My mom doing laundry, hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze." I used to wonder if she was washing in a wringer washer or an automatic and think of the futility.

Before Permanent Press, all of our chino slacks were put on creasers with the leg seams lined up perfectly, before hanging; only the area above the creasers had to be ironed. Years later, slacks I no longer wore to school would dry perfectly creased in the dryer because the crease had been bruised into the fabric over the years. My close friend in grades 5-8 wondered how my mother did that. His slacks were dryer dried then had the crease ironed in. It was always gone early in the day. When bell bottoms came out, I used the creasers upside down.