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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy Mom had a wringer washer and a clothes line. Yes I am old & I want a clothes line again
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bucolic_frolic
(44,014 posts)Lot less work as one ages
irisblue
(33,149 posts)zeusdogmom
(1,005 posts)But I still line dry everything. HOA says no clothes lines but I have a 40+ year old wooden drying rack which I fill with wet laundry and take the loaded rack out onto my deck for things to dry. No one has ever complained.
irisblue
(33,149 posts)claudette
(3,722 posts)had a wringer washer and hung up clothes to dry in our very large (unfinished) basement when the weather was not cooperative!
But, I admit, I like my automatic washer and dryer!
Emile
(24,180 posts)and pillow cases smell so good after being hung outdoors.
Brother-in-law made these clothesline poles in 1976 as a wedding gift. We saved a ton in electric bills over the years.
KT2000
(20,643 posts)Love the clean scent, crispy sheets, and huge savings on electricity. Also, that lint in your dryer is your clothes wearing out.
irisblue
(33,149 posts)Worked well
I had a favorite bra, with underwires(¿!) that lasted 8 yrs. The drying rack, it was the drying rack that kept me looking good.
True Blue American
(18,014 posts)Never put a bra In the dryer. And my first washer was a KENMORE WRINGER. TRADED FOR AN AUTOMATIC AS SEEN AS WE COULD AFFORD IT.
MY CURRENT IS A Maytag, stainless steel tub that is at least 35 or 40 yeard old. Still made right here in Ohio New Dishwasher all stainless I inside..Maytag. I am loyal😘
DBoon
(22,520 posts)It is a solar clothes dryer
True Blue American
(18,014 posts)Deuxcents
(16,793 posts)But first thing I asked for when we moved into our house, was my clothes line..loved having one
dweller
(23,868 posts)and clothesline when I was a kid
washer was in the basement.
My kid brother and I would run army men through the wringers 😃 but he got his fingers caught in it once, started screaming and my mom came thundering down the steps to the basement , rushed over and walloped the top of the wringer mechanism which popped it apart and freed him.
I was frozen watching the whole thing go down
Ahhh childhood memories
😆
✌🏻
irisblue
(33,149 posts)I have 2 brothers, one learned. The other one spent 20 years in a state prison.
dweller
(23,868 posts)He was maybe 5 or 6 yrs old at the time and healed right up . We joke about it now. He probably thought it was going to eat his arm, and I thought our mom was going to wallop me at the time
it was just one of many circumstances we got into growing up
by the time we were teens, the stories got weirder but we are still very close now .
✌🏻
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,983 posts)There were six of us kids, so needless to say laundry was a huge and onerous chore. Plus, nothing got washed very often. Plus, of course, "drying" clothes in December, January, February, and several other months in northern NYS (Utica and north of there) was simply freezing the clothes. They needed ironing just to thaw out.
I'll stick with the automatic washer and drier I have now, thank you very much.
irisblue
(33,149 posts)For rhe record my mom could done better then my sperm donor
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,983 posts)Then the basement flooded and stayed flooded.
irisblue
(33,149 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,422 posts)I wonder if they've ever made a candle with that scent?
irisblue
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RULES OF THE IRISH CLOTHESLINE
April 16, 2015 by Irish American
https://www.irishamericanmom.com/rules-of-the-irish-clothesline/
Everyone I'm outta Detroit. My grandmother love of all eternal is Irish, her man was a rum runner
I am not disputing Irish laundry day. I am not that much
3catwoman3
(24,330 posts)Thanx for the link.
applegrove
(119,523 posts)have dried outside.
bedazzled
(1,785 posts)My grouchy husband hates scratchy towels so I throw socks and underwear in dryer
Otherwise I love to hang clothes on line. They last so much longer.
malthaussen
(17,307 posts)... when we moved into an apartment complex that had them.
I got my fingers caught in the wringer once and screamed my little head off. I was always doing stuff like that: when we got a car with automatic windows, I got my fingers caught in them, too.
-- Mal
LuckyCharms
(17,577 posts)It is attached to the house on our back deck, and runs to a pole.
The thing is literally life changing. So handy to have.
Vinca
(50,406 posts)things outside because I'm afraid I'll drag in ticks with the laundry.
wryter2000
(46,359 posts)I had one for a while. I loved it.
I also had a wooden screen door in the back that slammed shut with a very nostalgic bang. My stepson offered to change it, and I told him to keep his hands off my screen door. That was always the sound of summer.
SWBTATTReg
(22,532 posts)top, that you squeezed the wet laundry through to dry out more, prior to hanging up to dry. The sounds that the washer made still sticks in my mind, chuga chuga chuga...all the way to when it was done. So simple, but neat and effective.
patphil
(6,347 posts)Also rain, high wind, and winter weather.
My mother was never so happy as when she got a clothes dryer and didn't have to use a clothesline again.
irisblue
(33,149 posts)We started bringing in the bag of clothes pins because they became a spider hotel one night.
I developed a severe case of arachnophobia that day
patphil
(6,347 posts)Marthe48
(17,429 posts)I attached the housing to the shed and can pull the line out and hook the free end to something sturdy. Here is a link. I got one for my daughter for their camp.
https://www.amazon.com/Retractable-Clothesline-Portable-Retracting-Installation/dp/B07FYR4Q55/ref=asc_df_B07FYR4Q55/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=295653753811&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12018153119253260462&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9112979&hvtargid=pla-575525535595&psc=1&mcid=58c15a3b39fe392d94ae8f4fd6dbcc74&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiJOxstfqhQMV6U1HAR29dAX6EAQYASABEgKAuPD_BwE
Kali
(55,083 posts)Arizona summer sun.
when I checked for a link for the type I have. I hang all of my wet clothes on hangers. In the winter, I dry them on door hangers or a rack I have. Adds humidity. In the summer, I hang them on hangers and hang them on the line, keeps the house cool. For my bed quilts, I hang them over the chain link fence.
Kali
(55,083 posts)if I was stuck living somewhere clotheslines were not allowed, there would be rebellion.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)She would then have to iron almost everything. I remember the smell of the iron and the drone of the soap operas she would watch as she ironed.
I was always facinated by the clothslines I saw on TV, that went from building to building across the street.
Chautauquas
(4,455 posts)like it is today, I hang clothes on a clothes-line in our back yard.
Wicked Blue
(5,890 posts)Now I live in an HOA community and don't know if I can get away with a small clothesline.