Laundry is Drying Outside on the Clothes Line
By Nelda Hoxie
@NeldaHoxie (1381)
United States
October 15, 2015 12:35pm CST
I am sitting here, listening to the wind blow it dry on the line. I actually put it out yesterday and forgot to take it in. So it got damp again over night. I set an alarm clock to remind me to take in it around 5pm.
Now that I am thinking about this, I better put a note by the alarm clock so I remember why I set it. I have a pretty good memory, but I'm juggling quite a few things these days. I would probably think the alarm was to do something else.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
16 Oct 15
I would have a hard time with that rule. I used to be a town planner an write zoning codes. Usually it's homeowners' associations that forbid them not towns.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
16 Oct 15
@valmnz There are homeowners' groups that feel hanging clothes out to dry makes the place look working class. It's a very common prohibition in a homeowner's agreement. I have never seen a town do this. It never even came up for discussion. I worked entirely in New England. It could be a regional thing.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
15 Oct 15
The only times I ever hung clothes out the birds did their thing and they had to be rewashed...total waste.
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@valmnz (17095)
• New Zealand
16 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill, oh dear. I've been hanging mine out on the line for 44 years and nothing ike that has ever happened to me, thank goodness.
@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
16 Oct 15
That hasn't happened very often to me at all an I have bird feeders all over the yard. Sometimes a raccoon has pulled sheets off the line and played with them.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
16 Oct 15
@valmnz I don't mind since I prefer soft clothes. My parents always hung clothes out and growing up I hated those stiff towels and everything had to be ironed.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
16 Oct 15
A lot of people do. Many communities in the United States don't even allow them, because they are sooooo working class. I refuse to live in one of those.
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@EugenesDDen (310)
• Ireland
18 Nov 15
@NeldaHoxie Really?! What snobs! It's a wonder they aren't up on their high horses preaching about how eco-friendly it is to do this!
@rahulvsmokiee (3110)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
15 Oct 15
Lol! i am glad that i dont have any need of alarm. My mom is an automatic machine haha. She always wake up early in the mornning at around 5am.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
15 Oct 15
I love to wear things that have been dried on a clothes line. I used to do that more often when I was younger.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
16 Oct 15
I love the smell much more than any artificial scent.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
16 Oct 15
That's a good one not remembering why the alarm clock was set. One has to remember to remember
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
16 Oct 15
drying clothes under the sun is quite common here and i'm glad we have the space for it. it's a struggle, though, during the rainy season, since most washing machines here only have spin driers.
but as land and homes get more expensive, i notice in recent years that more and more have no space at all to hang their clothes, or even park their cars.
@jstory07 (148749)
• Roseburg, Oregon
16 Oct 15
What if Mr Wind comes along and blows your clothes all over. You better not forget them.
