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ok it's 21 degrees outside and the wind is blowing and I just came in from hanging a load of white towels outside. How green am I??? They actually freeze the first day but by day two the moisture freeze dries and they are the best smelling towels when you get out of the shower. I run them in the dryer for ten minutes 1st to fluff them up. Love to watch them in the wind blowing. After playing with 20inches of snow in the past 4 days I need to watch something other than snow. Will be a white Christmas here. Cheers to all.
Jon
 
time wise...

How long does it take for clothes to dry in freezing weather? I bet they do have a pleasing smell to them. I remember clothes drying in the summer sun and they seemed to smell like sunshine. And they faded in the hot southern sun. Do they take more than a day? What about fabric softener use, -does that affect them? This sounds like an option for me to check out.
 
Winter Laundry Drying

"Use 5 clips Delores, not 4. You know how I like them"
Vera Donovan

"Sometimes a woman has to be a high riding bitch, just to survive"
 
Dolores Claiborne

Wasn't that movie just delicious? I actually thought it was the best Steven King translation to the screen. Really beautifully filmed and lit, as well as acted. A Classic.
 
I did the hanging out clothes in the winter thing...didnt last long as my hands could feel the sting of the cold and you dont realize it in the summer but wet laundry will leave your hands wet and you notice it in the wintertime. It can take a couple of days for stuff to dry outdoors.
What I do is when I run my dryer I open the window behind my dryer and let the cold air come in. The dryer pulls the air in and after the load is dry the clothes smell like they were dried outside. Saves the heat in the house as well.
 
More Dolores Claiborne

"She haad a dryer, too. I nice big one. But we were forbidden to use it unless there was more an five days a rain in the focast.
Now, everyone knows a line dried sheet smells better an one baked in a Maytag.
Ya start hanging them sheets in December outside in the cold and by the time March comes your fingers bleed and scream with cracks that get worse with the rest of the housework she's got you doin'.But miss 'kiss my rear cheeks' Vera needed her sheets dried outdoors, to catch the south wind,no matter what.

That was her second way of being a bitch."
 
We dry our stuff in the attic - which has the same temperature like outside: -5°C this morning!
But it dries quickly, as we keep the windows open there.
Only time we use our cabinet-dryer is on those days when it is between 10°C and 0°C and misty and rainy so that the air is saturated with humidity.

Hanging washing outside even in wintertime is doing a bit of bleaching to them when the sun comes out - very nice for whites!

Ralf
 
What the....

Wow, I will count my blessings for the mild winters here in Georgia. Of course I will be cussing when that summer heat -and humid days- come back. I wonder if fabric softener effects the drying time any? I had to wash some clothes out by hand one day this past summer. I was doing restoration work on my house and did not yet have the washer/drying in yet. The heat was 104 and humid. The clothes took a good while to dry. I am very glad to have the machines to do the work. I remember my grandmother using a ringer machine. She would not use a dryer. She insisted natural drying was best for clothes.
 
there done

Ok they are dry and in the basket sitting in the living room and warming up, best air freshener you have ever smelled. I have an early Neptune model mah4000, normal wash, hot/cold extra rinse total of 4 and high speed spin. I use about 1/4cup Tide w/bleach alternative, about 1/8 cup clorox mixed with water in the dispenser and about 1 ounce of ultra downy. In the dryer for 10 minutes to loosen things up and out on the line for usually 24 hours. I have gotten fast on hanging towels, can do a load in usually 3 or 4 minutes. 10 bath towels 4 hand towels and a couple of wash cloths. Sheets are in the wash now and will be hung out this afternoon, they will dry usually in 4 hours or so. Being this morning it was 1 degree outside with 0 dew point and humidity of 21 percent any moisture will be wisked away. Happy hanging out everybody. 1 week till Christmas!!!
Jon
 
Judy Parfitt should have gotten at least an Oscar nomination for her Vera Donovan.

Do any of you know where to go to find those wonderful old wooden clothesline supports? The kind I'm talking about look like a pair of heavy wooden telepone pole tops that carry 4-5 lines between them stretched out about 15 feet.
 
I think the clothesline supports can be found at one of the independent hardware stores. I think Poster Hardware or Hemlock Hardware here in Fairfield have them - will be going there today to buy some more calcium chloride to melt the 12 foot thick ice floe in my driveway that my plow guy left there when he decided not to plow last week.

I will let you know if they have them. There is one thing I am looking for that I can't find. I use plastic pulleys for my clothesline. While I like the ones I have found (from Everlast) - white with a black bracket, I had another nostalgia attack and remembered that back in Brooklyn, a lot of the housewives had similar looking pulleys, but were sort of beige and made a very satisfying squeak when you moved the line. I suspect these are no longer made anyway.
 

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