About my clothesline...

[jnjross]

i throw the clothes in the dryer on no heat for 5-10mins to soften them up. i put 2-3 loads in at once since i'm not "drying" them

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

My wife has been using a chothesline forever, she claims they keep her chothes looking new, she will wear clothes and people will compliment her on them with some of them 8-10 years old and looking new. She doesn't like the effect of the washer and especially the dryer has on them.

 

[Greyscale Rainbow]

I just hang my clothes up on hangers and then hook them over the doorframe of the 3rd bedroom - we rarely go in there so it works perfectly. There truly is no real need for a dryer unless you live in a really tiny house with no room to swing a cat.

Our washer is about 25 years old - we got it second hand from my Grandparents when my mum was still living here . . . . my mum moved out in 96, and it was a moderately old washing machine when we got it. Apart from leaking a bit every time we wash (doesn't matter as it is a concrete floored utility room, and the flood isn't exactly biblical) it still works perfectly. Don't make them like they use to anymore!

 

[eggzettera]

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No truer words spoken......

 

[ccrecelius]

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I have never heard of vinegar in the rinse cycle. Does this really work? White or apple cider?

 

[ccrecelius]

I love my clothes line

 

[eggzettera]

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White you can also use it in the dishwasher where you put the hard water rinse stuff in.....

 

[patandchickens]

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Or live somewhere that it is often TOO WINDY to dry clothes on the line (they flap so bad they come off or take the line down with them), or have weeks on end (in spring and fall) of several rainshowers per day, or you have 5 months of very subfreezing winter and while yeah things do eventually freezedry it takes way too long

I use the line when I can (well except that it broke yesterday grr and needs replacing -- I think I want one of those umbrella-style dryers, no matter what they look like), but I would say that over the course of a year I still probably do about 50% of my loads in the dryer, and you would too if you lived here

E.t.a - I cannot concieve of drying large amounts of clothes in the house. Half the year is already way too humid (I don't need to ranch up any extra mildew thanks) and the other half of the year there is too much dust and cathair floating 'round the house - I'd have to wash the clothes again as soon as they were dry

Pat

 

[okiemommy]

i throw the clothes in the dryer on no heat for 5-10mins to soften them up. i put 2-3 loads in at once since i'm not "drying" them

aaaaahhhhh I think that I will have to do that! I have such traumatizing memories of our salt encrusted clothes from the sea spray lol

Now how do you hang clothes without the little clothespin nipples? Can I say that here?​

 

[MandyH]

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Thats hilarious, I've never thought of them as clothesline nipples!!LOL If you are hanging t shirts, which are the worst for nipples, fold them in half over the line and the weight will be distributed evenly and no more nipples. Jeans and shorts hang from the top with only the back or front wasitband clothespinned, that way you don't have to fold them over and have a nipple there too.