Are those long johns dry yet?
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382440)
Rockingham, Australia
June 28, 2019 12:10am CST
While we were travelling in Ireland, France and Austria, I was always on the lookout for something a bit different or something that I thought would interest my friends on myLot. I was as bad as Vince, taking my camera with me everywhere but I’m glad I did. I’m still going through my photos and every now and then I come across one that I think should be shared.
I thought you might like this shot of someone drying their long johns in the window. They have no fly-wire screens and I guess there would be a good wind flow through the window. We had radiators on the house-boat and when they were being used to heat the area, I’d put our smalls on the radiators. They dried surprisingly quickly.
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Jun 19
When we were travelling in the motor-home I used to put the socks on the dashboard of the vehicle.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
28 Jun 19
Goodness that does bring back a memory or two there.
I did not think that anyone used long johns anymore.
Maybe he has no choice but to dry his most intimate stuff in the window.
If he had a washing line he could put them out there say behind a bed sheet or two just a hint for whomsoever he might be.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
28 Jun 19
@JudyEv
If its hot enough you can hide all those kind of things with bed sheets and stuff it is funny to me at least that men still wear them.
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jun 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 Vince bought and wore a pair in Tasmania as it was bitterly cold there. He hasn't worn them since.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
28 Jun 19
If it was France then it would be "long jeans"!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
28 Jun 19
can you imagine the conversation those long johns provoked over the years?
Where are my long johns? husband
In the window, wife
so the neighbors can see them? husband
yes.. wife
My wife would say in the hamper where you left them!
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jun 19
Wow, I am really impressed. You put your clothes in the hamper? Don't just dump them on the floor? Go to the top of the class and get a gold star! (haha - I'm exaggerating a little. Vince puts his stuff in the hamper too - mostly)
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Jun 19
@DocAndersen Vince cooks but I always say he took it up in self-defence. I don't see how he can possibly say he finds cooking relaxing but he says it is. I clean up after him and do everything else. We muddle along quite well.
I don't see how he can possibly say he finds cooking relaxing but he says it is. I clean up after him and do everything else. We muddle along quite well. 1 person likes this
@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
29 Jun 19
@JudyEv i was told - no hamper no wash!
we split duties years ago. I used to do the laundry but my wife's contention was that everything pink was not her goal.
So I started cooking, she does the laundry!
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@xFiacre (14797)
• Ireland
28 Jun 19
@judyev Such a good photograph of such a poor, dilapidated scene. At least the long johns are washed. Our next door neighbours back home wear very brightly underwear and when they hang it out on the line in the garden and the wind blows they look like butterflies.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 Jun 19
That photo is a real prize. It's always good to have the camera ready. You never know what you're going to find that is photo worthy.
I remember radiators growing up. We would put clothes on them too and found they dried fast. A little stiff, but they were dry.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
28 Jun 19
I do adore these type of photos!
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jun 19
@andriaperry Vince bought and wore a pair when we were in Tasmania. It was SOOO cold. He hasn't worn them since.
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
29 Jun 19
@JudyEv Something you dont see here often.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
2 Jul 19
@JudyEv
I have heard of people using radiators to dry things. I have something that I put on my porch to dry my clothes in summer. In winter I dry them on it inside because not sure how the weather will be. That is cool and I love your title. Thanks for sharing.
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@didinedhia (8482)
• Algeria
28 Jun 19
In my area the closest dry so fast you can't even imagine because it's so hot and dry
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@snowy22315 (209132)
• United States
28 Jun 19
Hmm, they looks like sweatpants to me.
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@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
28 Jun 19
I would probably hang something like that near an open window to dry.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
28 Jun 19
It's very common scene in India.
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jun 19
Many of us have outside lines here but or course in big cities, they have to have driers or they have frames to dry the clothes on.
@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jun 19
It's a bit of fun. If I lived in a town, I could easily do the same thing myself.
@VoiceofTruth7 (1210)
• United States
8 Aug 19
When I do not have money for the lbaundrymat I wash and hang my clothes in the bathroom with the heat setting on all day from the light a girls got to do what a girls got to do
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Aug 19
That's very true. When we were travelling in a motor-home in Germany, I dried my husband's socks on the dashboard of our vehicle.
