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We had one when I was a kid. Now I use the dryer because I’d rather not have pollen all over my clothes! Make me very allergic. :)
Oh no I never thought of that! I’m exceedingly fortunate not to have any pollen allergies. Also this neighborhood has, like, no trees, so– just enough trees that it’s not super dusty, but.
For reference, that photo includes my entire back yard, so it’s not like I’m using the space for anything else.
torrilin reblogged and added: I do some. It’d be better if I did it more, but the condo association has zero clotheslines outdoors. And in multi family housing, there’s a lot of stigma about hanging wash outside. Not sure why, but it’s not very sensible financially. Granted, weather wise hanging out wash doesn’t make much sense here 6 months out of the year. But.I added a retractable clothesline to the hall bath when we moved in, so I can dry wooly stuff just fine. I should probably get another one or two, they’re very helpful.
Here’s how indecisive I am: I have a retractable laundry line and haven’t worked out where to put it, even though in the winter I hang up an awful lot of my clothing inside the house. I only have one bathroom, though, so my choices are limited. Outdoors, I literally just have a rope that I tied one end to the phone pole, and the other to a hook attached to the garage that the previous occupants surely used to hang decorative plants from. I keep the line from sagging too much by using one of those iron shepherd’s hook things people also hang decorative plants from, if they’re people who have that sort of lifestyle, which clearly I don’t.
My sister in Georgia is actually barred by the homeowner’s association from hanging out laundry of any kind! And Dude’s sister, in California, used to complain about how her neighbors hung out clothes and then left them out to get dusty– but it was clear that a lot of her complaint was them hanging stuff out, period, which she clearly found bizarre. Lady, you live in San Diego, which as far as I could tell was one giant clothes dryer, I’d never seen so much sun!
On the farm, they hang laundry out in all seasons when they can, but yeah, between November and February you’re really not going to even try it, and outside of that, it’s not going to work super well. I hang occasional things out in the winter, but mostly stuff goes on hangers off the backs of all the doors in the house. I just hate using the dryer– a lot of my clothes simply don’t survive it, or come out shrunken.
Socks, though, and towels– yeah, line-drying those kind of sucks, you can kind of use them as hammers afterward, for whatever reason. But sheets– omg, I love line-dried sheets. They smell amazing.
archifist reblogged and added:
my mom has one of these. her favorite thing about it is you can hide your underwear in the inner layers.
I was just thinking that, as I hung out my stuff– the inner lines are so short, and hidden, and clearly designed so you can put your little stuff in there and still have it get decent sun. I’m quite pleased with this thing– but nobody can see in my backyard, my one awesome neighbor put up a big palisade fence, and the other neighbors are never in their yards.
greenglittercat replied:
My family had one of these too! the german name translates literally to laundry spider
LAUNDRY SPIDER. I love that! This one was labeled in German but I didn’t actually look that close.
We had one when I was a kid. Now I use the dryer because I’d rather not have pollen all over my clothes! Make me very allergic. :)
Oh no I never thought of that! I’m exceedingly fortunate not to have any pollen allergies. Also this neighborhood has, like, no trees, so– just enough trees that it’s not super dusty, but.
For reference, that photo includes my entire back yard, so it’s not like I’m using the space for anything else.
torrilin reblogged and added: I do some. It’d be better if I did it more, but the condo association has zero clotheslines outdoors. And in multi family housing, there’s a lot of stigma about hanging wash outside. Not sure why, but it’s not very sensible financially. Granted, weather wise hanging out wash doesn’t make much sense here 6 months out of the year. But.I added a retractable clothesline to the hall bath when we moved in, so I can dry wooly stuff just fine. I should probably get another one or two, they’re very helpful.
Here’s how indecisive I am: I have a retractable laundry line and haven’t worked out where to put it, even though in the winter I hang up an awful lot of my clothing inside the house. I only have one bathroom, though, so my choices are limited. Outdoors, I literally just have a rope that I tied one end to the phone pole, and the other to a hook attached to the garage that the previous occupants surely used to hang decorative plants from. I keep the line from sagging too much by using one of those iron shepherd’s hook things people also hang decorative plants from, if they’re people who have that sort of lifestyle, which clearly I don’t.
My sister in Georgia is actually barred by the homeowner’s association from hanging out laundry of any kind! And Dude’s sister, in California, used to complain about how her neighbors hung out clothes and then left them out to get dusty– but it was clear that a lot of her complaint was them hanging stuff out, period, which she clearly found bizarre. Lady, you live in San Diego, which as far as I could tell was one giant clothes dryer, I’d never seen so much sun!
On the farm, they hang laundry out in all seasons when they can, but yeah, between November and February you’re really not going to even try it, and outside of that, it’s not going to work super well. I hang occasional things out in the winter, but mostly stuff goes on hangers off the backs of all the doors in the house. I just hate using the dryer– a lot of my clothes simply don’t survive it, or come out shrunken.
Socks, though, and towels– yeah, line-drying those kind of sucks, you can kind of use them as hammers afterward, for whatever reason. But sheets– omg, I love line-dried sheets. They smell amazing.
archifist reblogged and added:
my mom has one of these. her favorite thing about it is you can hide your underwear in the inner layers.
I was just thinking that, as I hung out my stuff– the inner lines are so short, and hidden, and clearly designed so you can put your little stuff in there and still have it get decent sun. I’m quite pleased with this thing– but nobody can see in my backyard, my one awesome neighbor put up a big palisade fence, and the other neighbors are never in their yards.
greenglittercat replied:
My family had one of these too! the german name translates literally to laundry spider
LAUNDRY SPIDER. I love that! This one was labeled in German but I didn’t actually look that close.
