If you hang up clothes, your 'poor'!
By Sandy KS
@rusty2rusty (6771)
Defiance, Ohio
August 30, 2015 12:55pm CST
I once had a co-worker tell me this after a discussion of drying verse hanging up clothes. She said I was poor because I hung up clothes. Nowadays there is no need to hang up clothes.
I beg the differ. As I grew up hanging clothes on the line. As I come from a large family. We had one dryer, and one washer. Running the dryer heated up the house in the summer time. Hanging clothes up. My clothes got a clean fresh scent. That you can't match in the dryer. No product no matter how it tries can compare to the real smell.
Do you think only poor people hang up clothes? Do you hang up clothes?
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
30 Aug 15
I can see why some snobs would think that it is special to dry your clothes in a clothes dryer. But who can resist the lovely smell of freshness after being out in the air on clothes?
I always hang my clothes only if I have to do I put them in a nasty dryer.
I guess that makes me dirt poor haha
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@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
30 Aug 15
Lol, hanging up also helped your clothes from shrinking in the dryer. I hang mine up at times to. I love the smell of a fresh scent on my clothes.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
30 Aug 15
@rusty2rusty Well, dryers are good for sure, I am not knocking them, but I live in apartments and have to use the wash that is here, lucky there is one. I am phobic about other smells in them eww
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@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
30 Aug 15
@TiarasOceanView Aw, yes that is hard to do in apartments. I lived in a trailer court where it wasn't allowed. My dryer broke. I had to take things to the laundry mat. I hated doing that.
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@owstalaga (4825)
• Philippines
1 Sep 15
Psh, it is only the narrow minded who thinks that way. So what if you hang your clothes to dry? That's the natural way of drying clothes.
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@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
2 Sep 15
Exactly, this person drives me nuts with their narrow mindedness. I am sure I bug them. maybe my clothes blocks their view from being a busy body to everyone in the neighborhood.
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@bluerubymoon53 (3286)
• United States
30 Aug 15
If I had the opportunity to hang clothes to dry after being laundered, I would. I have to take my clothes to the laundromat to wash and dry. I just LOVE the way clothes smell after drying on the line outdoors. I agree with you..."No product no matter how it tries can compare to the real smell". And NO, you are not poor if you hang clothes. You just enjoy some simple things in life. 
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@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
30 Aug 15
Thank you. I figure I can laugh at those with high electric bills in the summer. As i get exercise and a lower bill by hanging clothes outside. I think they smell better too.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
31 Aug 15
Drying your clothes on the line is one of the best ways to save money. Anyone who is trying to be "green" and save the environment should at least try to hang out their clothes.
Of course the person who said this to you sounds really young or really out of touch with reality.
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@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
31 Aug 15
I agree hanging clothes on the line is one of the best ways to save money and to get fresh smelling clothes.
The person who told me this has a husband with a high paying job. She doesn't have to work if she didn't want to. She choose to because she was bored at home.
@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
30 Aug 15
That would makes alot of sense. I bet it works well together.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
30 Aug 15
I, too, grew up with hanging clothes. I never thought we were poor. I love the fresh smell of clothes drying outside, especially the bedding.
@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
30 Aug 15
Ah, yes, I have sweet memories of placing clean linen and blankets on the bed. After taking them on the line. I would roll around the bed and enjoy the smell.
@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
30 Aug 15
Yes, it can be depending on what material you use and if you have to hire someone to do it for you. I was lucky, as this rental home already had one up.
