Do You Think That Hanging Laundry Outside Looks Bad?

[annie3001]

i used to always hang out laundry! the smell is so beautiful!!
but now that i have just 2 small kids, plus me and my hubby,, i have been guilty in using the dryer all the time!
ugh! i ended up taking down my line because i wanted to use the rope for a hammak (duh cant spell) . over the this summer tho i hung the rope again (from tree to tree) the kids wet beach towels needed to be hung somewhere!

luckily i am in the country so no one cares! however its stupid someone would actually care! ugh! people these days!

 

[Hen_House_Rocks!]

I try to line dry my laundry as much as possible. It is one of my favorite tasks each day. Since I spend a majority of my day at a desk inside, I get to spend very little time outdoors, so I savour those few minutes. And believe it or not, if you hang your laundry outside in freezing weather, it will still dry. (Freeze drying is what I jokingly call it.) When I take it down in the afternoon, it is stiff as a board and I just pile 'em up and bring them inside. In a couple hours they thaw out enough to hang in the closet. They might be a little damp still but it doesn't hurt anything.

 

[Julie08]

I like seeing anything on the line except gitch.

 

[natrgatr]

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Why not? There is nothing offensive about drying clothing. I don't see any need to hide your sheets from the neighbors' view.

Your neighbors' see you wear the clothing, why does it suddenly become offensive if you put the same clothing on a line?

We don't get after people for parking a car on the driveway instead of a garage. Maybe I don't like the way my neighbor's truck looks, so why should I be forced to stare at it outside my window?

(Actually, I like my neighbor's truck just fine)

Actually......some HOAs in my area NE Indiana (Fort Wayne) ban parking in driveways (you must park in the garage), flags (even American flags) because someone might put up a college flag their neighbor doesn't like, leaving the garage door open (even if you are working in it), etc. That's why I live in the boondocks with a half-mile long driveway. The only complaint I've ever gotten is from a neighbor that I won't let hunt our woods (because he is an inconsiderate a##), and obviously that wasn't an "OFFICIAL" complaint.

 

[QuailQT]

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It is a wonderful use of free natural resources to hang your washed laundry and for me, because I get sidetracked very easily...(look, a chicken!), I just wash them, hang 'em, then forget about them til the day is over, then take them down and deal with all of them right then. It helps me stay focused on other things that I need to get done versus going to put a basket of clothes away and then getting side tracked in that room and then another, etc. (Is isn't just me is it? LOL)

As far as underwear go, I just hang them from the side with one pin and they dry just fine and no one can tell that they are undies when they're looking. It also saves room on the line for more clothes and if the undies are a little wrinkled, who's going to notice when you're wearing them? I have seen stained white underwear hanging out on someone's line before and got a good chuckle, but was not offended in any way. It's not like I have to wear them or even continue to look at them.

I don't usually hang our jeans out. I just throw them in the dryer-less lugging from the basement with them being heavier. To get the most out of the line that I have, I hang one dish rag or washcloth, then pin another below it with two pins and do that about 4 times. I do that with sock pairs too for easier matching when I take them down.

I just love the smell of my clothes after they've been out all day. It's such a comfort to crawl in some fresh crisp sheets at the end of a long hard day. I seem to fall asleep more easily and have better quality sleep too.
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"But on the subject..
I like to see nice square sheets on a line. Im not a big fan of seeing all different size clothes down a collapsing clothes line. If they were arranged in size and categorized on a tight line I might not mind (but whos got the time for that?). "

I agree, I like to see the lines tight.
Not everyone has the room to arrange and categorize their clothes, but thankfully I have three long lines, and I've found that makes my life so much easier to take the little extra time when I'm hanging them to keep my sheets/towels together on one line, shirts on another and so forth. That way when I take them down, I can fold them right then and they are already sorted (everything that is already hanging together usually goes the same place.)
The other benefit is that if there is a threat of rain, it's sorted already, you just need to pull it down.

 

[tdgill]

No, QuailQT it isnt just you! Look@! a chicken! hahahah

I do the same with undies, but i LOVE the idea of hanging one washcloth down from the next! And with today's economy and all things greeen, I am surprised that someone has the NERVE to complain about clothes on a line.

 

[skeeter03]

Well where my sister lives (in town) lines are banned you can have an umbrella clothes line but not one that goes straight across your yard.
personaly I think its flippin ridiculas that I would pay that much money for a home and then have some hoity toity nitwit tell me I could not have a
clothes line cause it might offend my neighbors.
I have lived in places that had all those rules we lasted 3 months and then we moved out we couldnt handle it - your car was only allowed to be parked in front of your home for 10 minutes and then they would tow it.
only preaproved plants in the front no sunbathing in the back blah blah blah blah.
the first thing i have done in any home in the country is string my clothes line within a week - in the summer
and sometimes in the winter (if its not snowing) i hang at least my sheets. its just clothes people!!!!!!!!! call it art and you would get away with it lol.
I dont like being labled "trash" either - yes I do live in a modular home and yes I have my laundry out but what makes that trashy - we are clean people
there is not garbage lying about we are not rude to others - but if that is how I am going to be labled because I have my laundry out well OK I AM WHITE TRASH and proud of it!

 

[tdgill]

yeah, ME TOO!

u go girl!

 

[Godsgrl]

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See, though, that people are losing money if we hang our laundry on the line. Dryer manufacterers, electricity companies, dryer sheet companies. It's only "trendy" to go green if someone makes money off of it.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I don't mind it, but... I wouldn't hang very personal articles of clothing on a line for neighbors to see. I wouldn't want to see my neighbors' undies, either.

Also, I think the clothesline belongs in the backyard, not the front yard, but that's just my opinion.