Do You Think That Hanging Laundry Outside Looks Bad?

[Tonopah Pati]

I have and always do love to hang my cloths out side. When we didn't have dryers we hung outside. There is a proper way to hang the laundry. The under garments you hang on the inside lines. Sheets in front and behind them. Very private. All shirts hung together. Pants together. Shorts. sox hung in pairs. (saves time as You fold, when taking down) I live in a perfect solar area. I have always used the sun and wind. Hung correctly, you don't have nearly the wrinkles as a dryer makes. No shrinkage either. The good old wind irons them for me.

Lots of folks don't have a basement. There are lots of different cloths lines that you can get or make. That are not ugly, and some retract.

I hate HOA for that very reason. I don't want to pay someone to tell me what I can or not do in my own yard. DAHHHHHHH! With wanting the coutry to go green. Let one do it.

 

[jbowyer01]

I love seeing laundry hanging out on lines. It does not looky trashy and I would personally be offended if someone suggested that! I love slipping into bed at night and smelling the fresh crisp smell when they've been hung to dry. Its also my relaxing time, I get to enjoy the breeze (or heat depending on the month since I'm in Ga lol) and listen to the birds sing as I hang my laundry out.

 

[StupidBird]

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UGHHH! I despise pollen season!! EVERYTHING gets coated within 5 minuets.
I live across from a Ga Pine Tree farm

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?).

Just keep it in your back yard IMO. But for me... clothes dried outside dont smell very good. But I dont know if Im do it right

It's not you, it's our climate - when its humid out, my laundry tends to come in smelling like a wet dog or something. So, I have cheater indoor lines. when the upstairs bonus room was unfinished, I could get jeans dry in 30 minutes up there.

 

[the simple life]

If you think pollen is bad, if you keep bees they leave their hives on cleansing flights and poop on everything in sight.
Little brown/yellow spots on everything.
I thought about putting up a clothesline this year but the only area that I have available is right near the hives.

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

My family has always hung our clothing on the line outside. I love smelling the sheets and the shirts afterwards. The only thing I hate about it is sometimes discovering a wasp in my shirt or in my sheet.

Ow!!!! Meaning I get stung. That's the only thing I hate about hanging the clothes out on the line.

 

[Elite Silkies]

It doesn't bother me to see laundry line drying. My mom lives with us and she line dries in the summer time. But, I have to say the dryer is to close to washer for me to carry it all outside

They feel stiff to me when line dried.

I think she should have the right to line dry it's saving her money that she can put to better use than making the Electric Co richer!

 

[deb1]

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I respect that you aren't trying to force your own opinions on the neighbors.

But I am curious, what is it about clothing drying on a line that looks trashy to you?

What I am about to say is not directed at you Bettacreek because you seem very nice and I am certain that this doesn't apply to you.

I wonder if there is a bit of classism involved in disliking seeing clothing drying on the line. In modern America, middleclass people are supposed to be able to afford dryers. Only the poor, working class can't afford dryers-in some people's thinking. So therefore, drying clothing outside becomes a mark of being poor instead of simply being frugal or someone who enjoys the smell of sun fresh clothing.

I find it interesting that people don't have a problem with this in European countries.

 

[SarahFair]

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I respect that you aren't trying to force your own opinions on the neighbors.

But I am curious, what is it about clothing drying on a line that looks trashy to you?

What I am about to say is not directed at you Bettacreek because you seem very nice and I am certain that this doesn't apply to you.

I wonder if there is a bit of classism involved in disliking seeing clothing drying on the line. In modern America, middleclass people are supposed to be able to afford dryers. Only the poor, working class can't afford dryers-in some people's thinking. So therefore, drying clothing outside becomes a mark of being poor instead of simply being frugal or someone who enjoys the smell of sun fresh clothing.

I find it interesting that people don't have a problem with this in European countries.

No doubt it is..
Not saying thats the reason I think it is, but go in a neighborhood around here like Chateau Elan and do it and thats the reason why..

 

[pinkchick]

We hang our laundry on a line and always have, infact we have 3 lines outside. 2 in the back and 1 in the front. When I lived in homes without a line outside..........I built one! However I do not dry undergarments or socks on the line, they go in the dryer. Socks are a pain to deal with on the line

! When the weather turns and I can't dry outside I hang dry in the house by the fireplace and above the dryer where I installed a dowel just for that purpose. If trailertrash is what they are calling it......then trailertrash lives here and proud of it!

 

[deb1]

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I respect that you aren't trying to force your own opinions on the neighbors.

But I am curious, what is it about clothing drying on a line that looks trashy to you?

What I am about to say is not directed at you Bettacreek because you seem very nice and I am certain that this doesn't apply to you.

I wonder if there is a bit of classism involved in disliking seeing clothing drying on the line. In modern America, middleclass people are supposed to be able to afford dryers. Only the poor, working class can't afford dryers-in some people's thinking. So therefore, drying clothing outside becomes a mark of being poor instead of simply being frugal or someone who enjoys the smell of sun fresh clothing.

I find it interesting that people don't have a problem with this in European countries.

No doubt it is..
Not saying thats the reason I think it is, but go in a neighborhood around here like Chateau Elan and do it and thats the reason why..

I am not directing my comments against anyone on this thread.

When I was a very young girl in the seventies and eighties, I used to hear a lot of inspirational stories about people who were born poor and through their own initiative became wealthy. There was no shame in coming from a poor or lower middle class background.

Now we make fun of the working poor and blue collar workers and call them trash.