Line drying laundry

[jasperandchar]

I love hanging my clothes outside I do it most of the year even the winter.

But I think I need to have a chat with the birds as they keep leaving little surprises on my clothes at the end of the line....grrr.

[ticul]

I do too and LOVEEEEEE the smell...........

[super_e]

While line drying is great, there are a few things that spoil it for me ....

- the neighbours BBQing fish twice a day - your clean clothes end up smelling like their food.
- bird poop - I've found it on my clean clothes
- iffy weather - it's about to rain, no it's not, it drizzling, it stopped, it's raining cats and dogs, the sun is out. I can't take having to hang the clothes up and take them down again while their still wet, and then hang them back up again.
- windy days when your clean towel gets wrapped around the clothesline and it doesn't want to budge
- wasps buzzing around while you're trying to hang the laundry.
- and living in the big city, we had a problem a few years back where clothes would disappear off the lines. Yes, someone was going around through the alleys and stealing clothes off clotheslines.

[happymomy1]

I love putting the clothes on the line.....until my A$$ hole neighbour watches me hang the stuff out and then decides to light a fire just to be a jerk!!!! Seriously the people are the worst neighbours ever!!!

[Darth Penguin]

I love putting the clothes on the line.....until my A$$ hole neighbour watches me hang the stuff out and then decides to light a fire just to be a jerk!!!! Seriously the people are the worst neighbours ever!!!

Sorry my former neighbour moved next to you. I hadn't realised she'd followed me overseas. That was one ichy-b lady.

She once phoned me at 2 am because her fence blew down during the winter and she wanted a 6 month pregnant me to go out in the snow and replace it on my own even though she had 2 grown up sons, one of whom still lived at her house, as well as a married daughter and her own husband.
Naturally I declined her demands and the following day, I had a look at it and informed her that

1) it wasn't my fence but hers
2) if her husband, sons or son-in-law needed help then they would need to wait until the week-end for Mr P to be available

after her calling me some choice phrases including ciserable munt, the neighbour on the other side of her came out and moved the fence for her..

[endi2000]

Our clothesline project is becoming a full summer project. We are trying to do it on the cheap after finding out that it would cost over $500 for someone to dig a hole and put in the post. So...a friend has a boxed line and pulley that they bought several years ago and never put up. I bought that for $20. DH went to the local scrap yard and bought a 20 ft metal pole for $35 - then had to find someone to deliver it to our town - $ 40. He dug 2 feet down and found that since we are sitting on a rock - there are lots of rocks - so had to go to a neighbouring town and rent a post hole digger - $16. While he was taking the digger back - had to pick up the cement $27. So...I have a 4 ft hole, a 20 ft post, cement and the line - all here now! Just have to get them to meet up - I think that is supposed to happen this weekend - AND they are calling for more sun next week! Maybe - I will get to hang some clothes out BEFORE the rains return.

[momof5boys]

Our clothesline project is becoming a full summer project. We are trying to do it on the cheap after finding out that it would cost over $500 for someone to dig a hole and put in the post. So...a friend has a boxed line and pulley that they bought several years ago and never put up. I bought that for $20. DH went to the local scrap yard and bought a 20 ft metal pole for $35 - then had to find someone to deliver it to our town - $ 40. He dug 2 feet down and found that since we are sitting on a rock - there are lots of rocks - so had to go to a neighbouring town and rent a post hole digger - $16. While he was taking the digger back - had to pick up the cement $27. So...I have a 4 ft hole, a 20 ft post, cement and the line - all here now! Just have to get them to meet up - I think that is supposed to happen this weekend - AND they are calling for more sun next week! Maybe - I will get to hang some clothes out BEFORE the rains return.

Exciting!!! You'll love your clothesline!!

[endi2000]

Woohooo! Hung the sheets out yesterday even though today is wash day!! Amazing what little things will keep wives happy.

Ohh...the other thing who found my 2 day new clothesline is the hummingbird who viciously protects his territory. Oh well - we can share.

[i_forget]

In my basement I have 3 lines hanging under the duct work for my furnace.
This is great because the heat that radiates from the ducts when the furnace is on helps dry everything faster!

[JHShim]

can't beat that smell!

[bluerose]

Just a enjoyable chore.

[Natalka]

^ I agree, bluerose - and wow, am I ever going to miss it!
We moved in the fall, and we have no clothesline here...

[Darth Penguin]

I'm counting the days until I can line dry again...

[momof5boys]

^ I agree, bluerose - and wow, am I ever going to miss it!
We moved in the fall, and we have no clothesline here...

We moved as well to a place with no clothesline, so I use drying racks on the back deck and it works fine. I think I'm the only one in the entire neighbourhood that dries clothes outside. Strange really because it saves so much on energy costs.

[Darth Penguin]

We moved as well to a place with no clothesline, so I use drying racks on the back deck and it works fine. I think I'm the only one in the entire neighbourhood that dries clothes outside. Strange really because it saves so much on energy costs.

I used to do that before I got a rotary drier. Especially with light weight cloths for the brood...